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A.I.

Please Hold for Humanity

Posted August 23, 2026May 24, 2026 in Categories A.I., Editorial6 Comments

One of the stories this week was a natural to paste into Chat-GPT for analysis, and it surprised me. It declared my tagline “nasty” (twice)!

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The News Media ‘Arms Race’

Posted May 13, 2026May 10, 2026 in Categories A.I., Editorial, Explainer, Media, Technology9 Comments

When I write True’s stories, I use copy/paste from the source articles for quotes to make absolutely sure I don’t introduce errors with my own typos: I never want to accidentally put the wrong words into anyone’s mouth. This week, that practice revealed something interesting.

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Inventory Management

Posted May 27, 2026April 26, 2026 in Categories A.I., Crime, Explainer8 Comments

Or, when resolving a police standoff depends on a can of Pepsi. No, really.

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The Story’s Disturbing Logic

Posted April 26, 2026November 30, 2025 in Categories A.I., Crime, Editorial, Obliviots/Idiots5 Comments

In a Recent AMA Video, I answered a question about publishing “horrible” stories, and when I’ll choose to do one.

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Text with Jesus

Posted April 26, 2026November 17, 2025 in Categories A.I., Online Life, Religion, Technology16 Comments

I think readers will want a place to discuss one of the stories this week. Heck, I want to talk more about it too. I’ll start with the story itself.

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Hands Off My Work, NYT!

Posted April 26, 2026July 15, 2025 in Categories A.I., Editorial, Explainer, Lawsuits/Lawyers, Media, Rant, Technology22 Comments

I use ChatGPT for some of my research and brainstorming, to find interesting obituaries for the Honorary Unsubscribe, and more. And the New York Times is demanding to know what it is I ask ChatGPT, and how.

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A.I.-Roller

Posted April 26, 2026June 12, 2023 in Categories A.I., Online Life, Technology9 Comments

Or, the Continued Challenges of Artificial Non-intelligence.

I was in Denver last week for the first in-person meeting of my online entrepreneur mastermind group since Covid. One point of discussion was to use “A.I.” large language models to proofread articles.

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My Interview with an AI Chatbot about… Thinking

Posted April 26, 2026December 14, 2022 in Categories A.I., Editorial, Explainer, Language, Online Life, Technology20 Comments

What happens when you talk to an artificial intelligence language model about the value of something it can’t actually do? Thinking, I mean.

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024: Extending Thinking Beyond Humans

Posted April 26, 2026March 11, 2019 in Categories A.I., Medical, Podcasts, Technology10 Comments

In This Episode: Thinking about thinking that might occur in machines — for the betterment of humanity.

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