I Co-Wrote This With an AI Writing Tool
Can you distinguish which parts each of us wrote?
My last article was an analysis of AI writing tools. I argued that, under current paradigms, they won’t be able to master natural language because they lack both the capacity to capture intent from a human and the capacity to generate their own.
Yet, I don’t reject the idea of using these tools to complement the process of writing. Although they could reduce the demand for human writers, I see them more as enhancers. Eventually, AI will be integrated into every creator’s toolkit.
Today, I bring you a full-on collaboration between me and the recently unveiled Lex to which Every’s CEO Dan Shipper gave me access.
I won’t use Lex just to generate ideas or write the headline. Instead, it will write entire portions without any editing on my side. And, to make it more fun, I won’t reveal which ones until a few days after publication (edit: Lex’s contributions are in block quotes and italics. The intro and conclusion are mine).
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