AI Approach
Experience: Chat GPT, Writer, GrammarlyGo, Toqan, Midjourney, Gemini. Also, training AI models for Outlier.ai.
Image: Steve Johnson
AI and LLM tools are here to stay, but I encourage a thoughtful and nuanced approach to how and when we use them.
These tools can help us brainstorm, write a first draft, or get through a tedious task. But there are also situations where they don’t save any time. The effort you spend editing could have been spent thinking and writing. We must also consider the homogeneity of our communications when everyone is using these tools. How do we stand out? How can we appeal to the human audience?
A skilled writer shouldn’t need every first draft to run through these models, much like an experience coder doesn’t needing these tools to produce every line of code.
Many leaders are advocating for using these tools without discretion, as if they’re getting referral revenues for doing it (perhaps they are). I prefer a balanced approach that sets up guardrails and has an ongoing discussion about what may and may not be the best use for these tools.