(This is not the actual cover, which I have professional doing, just me playing around in AI).| The Ed Techie
There’s a dual interpretation of the title in this post. First, I’ve been using my own writing as a tool to understand what AI can and can’t do. It provides a useful medium for doing this as I have a lot of it, and it’s something I’m deeply familiar with so I can gauge the quality of the output. I tried feeding a couple of writers tools, including Sudowrite and Novel.AI as well as Claude and Gemini with both my academic text (Metaphors of Ed Tech) and fiction writing (my in progress...| The Ed Techie
As part of Reclaim Hosting’s “On Writing” series, I had a chat with Jim Groom about my 20 years of blogging. You can see the recording here. Kudos to Jim for this series by the way, it’s fascinating to hear people like Kate Bowles talk about the role that writing plays in her life. In preparation for the chat, I tried to impose a series of phases on my blogging life. You can always slice these things different ways, but here is the one I came up with, which we talk about in the video:...| The Ed Techie
I left the OU a year ago, so have been reflecting on how that year has gone. Because I’ve been missing writing all those monthly, annual, random, reports, here is my Annual Report to be submitted to the funding council (ie me). With tongue a bit in cheek, I’ve adapted the format from an annual report that I used to prepare for a research funder for Post-OU Martin Inc.| The Ed Techie
Some of you will have seen how at least one author has been caught accidentally leaving AI prompts within the finished text of their book, and also how a suggested summer reading list in the Chicago Sun-Times contained AI hallucinations for books that don’t exist. There was, rightly, an outcry against this laziness, and a sense of being cheated (also, does no-one do any editing anymore?). But beyond these obvious, egregious examples, I find the question of artistic integrity (and related, a...| The Ed Techie
