Also, have you seen that new feature at the bottom when you're getting ready to publish a new Post, where it says something like, "Check for AI text?" That could be interesting to press, just out of curiosity, to see what it says, because I've heard those tools are notoriously unreliable and accusing everyone of being AI. Apparently, they ran the Declaration of Independence through an AI checker, for example, and it said it's 99% likely to be AI, which of course, is impossible. Haha! But I think if they can eventually get a tool that's effective, it could be useful to have things verified and labelled as 'AI Free', to reassure readers, and this could well be a step towards implementing a system like that at some point in the future.
Anyway, on to the questions... How can you get to love writing the posts and articles your readers enjoy reading? That's a fascinating one, for sure. It's tricky to hit on things that perform consistently well on here, and I think it's far better to focus on your 'voice' and unique 'style', so that readers connect with that, regardless of what the content is. The most important thing in all cases is that you love what you've written yourself, and that you're showing that passion for what you're doing on the page, and pouring your emotions and the best of what you know about the world into it, and when that shines through it's far more likely that others will love it, too.
Should we adapt anything about SPAWN? It's definitely difficult to find a format that works for everyone when we're all in different time zones. But I think things are fine as they are, and it's nice that people visit at a moment that suits them, and 'Late Night SPAWN' and 'Morning SPAWN' have become a thing. It's made it a bit like the 'Cheers' bar, that's here to welcome you whenever you're ready, where everybody knows your name. Haha... 😎
Hey there! Next week SPAWN, late night, Friday, weekend it’s all here! Great to see you as always.
There’s a fab clip of Elma Thompson on a talkshow aboit her view on AI. Her comments align with me on that one.
Cheers bar sounds good. Old… but the familiar setting and welcoming atmosphere are the key points for me. Love that!
I tried to run a poem vis this AI but it had not sufficient text to check so didn’t get anywhere. Hahaha.
Will check on a longer piece.
I have seen ebay use ai in item descriptions and it’s poor. Last week an estate agent letter was ai too. Poor writing. In both cases.
Heard of open ai hack into some business last week to solve a problem it had been set. How insane is that. Potentially trains and transport could be affected, nuclear power stations, automatic warfare machines… medical equipment and so on. We are at the mercy of stupidity and laziness.
Using your own words and voice is more crucial than ever.
Hello! Yes, it's become a bit of a mess on here since I mentioned it. I actually thought these new tools sounded like a great idea, if they were going to help 'AI Free' content become more visible, but apparently, they're so unreliable all it's going to do is lead to a ridiculous 'witch hunt', and perhaps even cause good quality work to be passed over by readers because it's been falsely flagged as AI. There's hundreds of comments about it on Substack's post they sent out, and on the whole, people are absolutely livid the tools have been introduced. Mainly because of the doubts it could throw onto their work, when it's fully human written. I'm really not sure what the solution is. But there definitely does need to be some way to separate AI content from the rest of us, because it's getting ridiculous now and killing any chance of visibility when there's no possibility we can match the pace AI content is being pumped out. They say three quarters of the content going up on Amazon is AI now, and that's probably the same here, too, which is just crazy... 😎
Seconding the things are fine as they are for our weekly SPAWN sessions.
I have loved some things I’ve written that have “fallen flat” here. I put that in quotes because my readers are not big on pressing ye olde like button and they haven’t unsubscribed, so presumably they still like it enough to get it in their inbox. I am weird about poetry—I have to be in precisely the right mood and headspace for it, which happens far less than I like.
The AI detector thing is problematic, she says in the understatement of the week. I’d like to know if Pangram is capturing the data it scans, or if it’s at like the “spell checker” level of AI tool. Because you can apparently submit a report when it makes an error. What do they do with the text they just scanned at that point? The detector improves on machine learning, which tells me it needs data … and I already have opted out of AI-scraping (ages ago). The horse might have left the barn already on that one, but still, some transparency would be nice. There is also, in the publication settings, way towards the bottom, a place where you can put a statement about “How I Write” which will come up when a reader decides to scan your work to see if you used AI.
The horse has left the barn? I love this expression. A teacher used another one for my kid in primary back in the day. Sling your hook! Had never heard that one before. They mean different things but equally amazing to me.
As always, I love having you here!
Yes, some readers are averse to hitting the like button!!! What’s that all about. Maybe older readers need to be asked to do it? Maybe they don’t know?
That's an excellent point. AI is constantly hungry for new data, and that does suggest that using the tool would likely mean the scanned content will then be used as part of the learning process to improve future scans, if it's not being used already. It's a very problematic situation, for sure. And yes, the subscriber numbers and views being consistently strong, is definitely a good indication that things are going well, as there's so many reasons why ye olde Like button might not be getting pressed, usually due to the pace readers are consuming things, or the device they're on... 😎
It's time for another... 'Morning SPAWN'! 🕺😎🕺
Hi everyone!
Happy Thursday to you all!
So this week, over at the 'House of Haiku', we've been talking about 'Radio'. You can find out more about that here: https://chrisjfranklin.substack.com/p/house-of-haiku-prompt-radio
Also, have you seen that new feature at the bottom when you're getting ready to publish a new Post, where it says something like, "Check for AI text?" That could be interesting to press, just out of curiosity, to see what it says, because I've heard those tools are notoriously unreliable and accusing everyone of being AI. Apparently, they ran the Declaration of Independence through an AI checker, for example, and it said it's 99% likely to be AI, which of course, is impossible. Haha! But I think if they can eventually get a tool that's effective, it could be useful to have things verified and labelled as 'AI Free', to reassure readers, and this could well be a step towards implementing a system like that at some point in the future.
Anyway, on to the questions... How can you get to love writing the posts and articles your readers enjoy reading? That's a fascinating one, for sure. It's tricky to hit on things that perform consistently well on here, and I think it's far better to focus on your 'voice' and unique 'style', so that readers connect with that, regardless of what the content is. The most important thing in all cases is that you love what you've written yourself, and that you're showing that passion for what you're doing on the page, and pouring your emotions and the best of what you know about the world into it, and when that shines through it's far more likely that others will love it, too.
Should we adapt anything about SPAWN? It's definitely difficult to find a format that works for everyone when we're all in different time zones. But I think things are fine as they are, and it's nice that people visit at a moment that suits them, and 'Late Night SPAWN' and 'Morning SPAWN' have become a thing. It's made it a bit like the 'Cheers' bar, that's here to welcome you whenever you're ready, where everybody knows your name. Haha... 😎
Hey there! Next week SPAWN, late night, Friday, weekend it’s all here! Great to see you as always.
There’s a fab clip of Elma Thompson on a talkshow aboit her view on AI. Her comments align with me on that one.
Cheers bar sounds good. Old… but the familiar setting and welcoming atmosphere are the key points for me. Love that!
I tried to run a poem vis this AI but it had not sufficient text to check so didn’t get anywhere. Hahaha.
Will check on a longer piece.
I have seen ebay use ai in item descriptions and it’s poor. Last week an estate agent letter was ai too. Poor writing. In both cases.
Heard of open ai hack into some business last week to solve a problem it had been set. How insane is that. Potentially trains and transport could be affected, nuclear power stations, automatic warfare machines… medical equipment and so on. We are at the mercy of stupidity and laziness.
Using your own words and voice is more crucial than ever.
Hello! Yes, it's become a bit of a mess on here since I mentioned it. I actually thought these new tools sounded like a great idea, if they were going to help 'AI Free' content become more visible, but apparently, they're so unreliable all it's going to do is lead to a ridiculous 'witch hunt', and perhaps even cause good quality work to be passed over by readers because it's been falsely flagged as AI. There's hundreds of comments about it on Substack's post they sent out, and on the whole, people are absolutely livid the tools have been introduced. Mainly because of the doubts it could throw onto their work, when it's fully human written. I'm really not sure what the solution is. But there definitely does need to be some way to separate AI content from the rest of us, because it's getting ridiculous now and killing any chance of visibility when there's no possibility we can match the pace AI content is being pumped out. They say three quarters of the content going up on Amazon is AI now, and that's probably the same here, too, which is just crazy... 😎
Seconding the things are fine as they are for our weekly SPAWN sessions.
I have loved some things I’ve written that have “fallen flat” here. I put that in quotes because my readers are not big on pressing ye olde like button and they haven’t unsubscribed, so presumably they still like it enough to get it in their inbox. I am weird about poetry—I have to be in precisely the right mood and headspace for it, which happens far less than I like.
The AI detector thing is problematic, she says in the understatement of the week. I’d like to know if Pangram is capturing the data it scans, or if it’s at like the “spell checker” level of AI tool. Because you can apparently submit a report when it makes an error. What do they do with the text they just scanned at that point? The detector improves on machine learning, which tells me it needs data … and I already have opted out of AI-scraping (ages ago). The horse might have left the barn already on that one, but still, some transparency would be nice. There is also, in the publication settings, way towards the bottom, a place where you can put a statement about “How I Write” which will come up when a reader decides to scan your work to see if you used AI.
The horse has left the barn? I love this expression. A teacher used another one for my kid in primary back in the day. Sling your hook! Had never heard that one before. They mean different things but equally amazing to me.
As always, I love having you here!
Yes, some readers are averse to hitting the like button!!! What’s that all about. Maybe older readers need to be asked to do it? Maybe they don’t know?
That's an excellent point. AI is constantly hungry for new data, and that does suggest that using the tool would likely mean the scanned content will then be used as part of the learning process to improve future scans, if it's not being used already. It's a very problematic situation, for sure. And yes, the subscriber numbers and views being consistently strong, is definitely a good indication that things are going well, as there's so many reasons why ye olde Like button might not be getting pressed, usually due to the pace readers are consuming things, or the device they're on... 😎
Correct! I can’t press like on my old laptop. Only on phone.