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Mpiyakhe Dhlamini's avatar

I enjoyed reading this, it's so true.

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The Saintly Coven🏳️‍🌈's avatar

We’d get more marks for using those punctuations, we were forbade from beginning paragraphs with the same words so we had to use ‘consequently’ among others.

We studied the use of these punctuations at the back of the Oxford dictionary.

How do we unlearn years of education just to avoid being called Artificial Intelligence.

And anyway, why does AI get to be called the language model, not me?

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Phoebe Ade | Amplified Pen's avatar

Nice to meet you, Marcus! I enjoyed reading this very well-articulated post. The classic AI police is laughable. At the end of the day, you have to have a thought to communicate and the ability to communicate it effectively; AI is a tool that enhances. And yes, many already have the ability to write effectively without the assistance of AI. Guess what? It's hard to tell the difference sometimes. That's what good AI does! We'll continue to have debates about the influence of AI in writing, creating etc. For now, I'll settle this with a quote from my favorite author Chinua Achebe... if you don't like Someone's story write yours :)

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Miriam Odabe's avatar

Everyday, the Internet exposes the educational gap in certain societies. You see it in the way folks from these societies nit-pick basic grammatical structures and then ascribe it to ChatGPT. Hellooo?? Our (Anglo-African) everyday speak have always had vocabulary depth.

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mдro's avatar

You weren’t wrong ChatGPT writes like you

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Nati's avatar

I loved this read. Living in a western society, you have articulated what I have wanted to say. The queen’s English was quite literally beaten into us and we have scarred knees from years of kneeling to prove it.

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Racheal's avatar

This was such an eye-opening piece. As someone who helps authors and entrepreneurs craft eBooks, I really connected with your message!

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Colette's avatar

I absolutely loved reading this. Thank you for such a beautiful piece.

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Fatima Musa's avatar

Deep

Profound truth,

We learnt the hard way, reading dictionary and writing elaborately, AI saw how we made sense, adopted it and we are flagged as a dead giveaway to ChatGPT.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts.

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Alexandra Choli's avatar

Beautifully said. The more insidious aspects: our writing is not evaluated for whether it’s effective but for whether it resembles a tool’s output - and worse, we are asked to dumb down our communication (because what does ‘sound more human’ mean and result in). Myself, I not only read like gpt, but according to Linkedin I perform like an automated service. Is being efficient and effective above a baseline now becoming a red flag? And are tools now being built and deployed to enforce mediocrity?

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Joelise Tillman Josey's avatar

You better preach! Well said about Chat GPT and those who assume we can't possibly think or write balanced sentences without the assistance of AI. I prefer to use AI for research and author my own content. Its the creativity of writing i appreciate most, whether it comes easy or presents challenges at times.

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Fabio Moreira's avatar

Yup everything I write is me hahaha and some people will probably get salty with AI.

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Letters from Within's avatar

We had to write 2½ pages under 40 minutes. That was wild. The expectations the teachers had. 😂

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