Personal Blogs are no longer personal when AI gets too involved

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2024-10-22 16:00:07

We're hoping to share resources and content in the Black Python Devs Discord and even promote a few pieces in our newsletter and we've run into a terrible problem.

Nah that isn't it at all. I've used ChatGPT to help write blog posts in the past. The key word there is HELP. I would say over 95% of a ChatGPT assisted post from me is my words.

I write what I would. If I'm stuck on a particular sentence I would say "Help me convey '' in 1-2 sentences." Then I would read that statement and then put it in my words and keep it moving. Or if it lost that personal touch I'd skip it and keep it moving.

I may also feel like my grammar is atrocious and say, "Can you WITHOUT changing my words correct my grammar. Put the output in markdown format". Then I diff the text to see what changed and make a judgement on a case-by-case basis.

I hear you. That's why I don't write nearly as much as I should. The key to this is remember who you're writing this for. If it's for yourself why would you copy/paste AI explanations when you can have AI explain it again.