AI 글쓰기에 대한 13가지 신념

Mike Taylor is the head of evals at Every and a co-author of "Prompt Engineering for Generative AI" (O’Reilly).

How I went from ‘this is slop’ to work I’m willing to publish under my name

Writers in our How We：https://every.to/p/what-writers-who-use-ai-want-you-to Write Now：https://every.to/guides/compound-writing?utm_cta_source=post_4471_post_body_guide_to_compound_writing_1 series have drawn very different lines around AI. Some use it for research and editing but won’t let it write a sentence. Mike Taylor：https://every.to/@mike_2114 will. He uses models to draft almost everything he publishes. His test is whether he could defend the ideas if a reader showed up to argue.

Mike shares the 13 beliefs behind that. He puts more of his own material into the prompt than he asks the model to write. He keeps social posts entirely his own. Some of this cuts against how most of the series’ writers work, which is what makes it worth reading. — Kate Lee：https://every.to/@kate_1767

I just finished my second book：https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/context-engineering-with/0642572261603/ with publisher O’Reilly, who doesn’t allow using AI to write, and it’s the last thing I’ll agree to write manually. Writing the traditional way feels like using a typewriter when I have a word processor, and the output isn’t any better than what I write with AI.

I’ve been experimenting with AI writing since GPT-3 came out in 2020, when Copy.ai was giving out free accounts to everyone who failed to get into Y Combinator：https://x.com/PaulYacoubian/status/1329777522158911492?s=20 . When GPT-4：https://every.to/chain-of-thought/gpt-4-a-copilot-for-the-mind came out in 2023, I developed a writing process：https://www.saxifrage.xyz/post/ai-writer that passed the Turing test: friends and colleagues couldn’t tell it wasn’t me, and that was depressing enough that I stopped writing.

Today I write more than ever, because I’ve developed a series of beliefs about AI writing that have moved me from “this is slop” to “ok not bad” and now “this is better.” If you’ve experimented with AI writing in the past and stopped because it felt unethical, I hope this makes you reconsider.

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