A quick thought on using gen AI for writing (which I don't feel comfortable posting on LinkedIn)

There's a lot of commentary about how professionals are catastrophizing or embracing LLMs and AI agents. Many favor outsourcing what was previously uniquely human work to AI models, citing the early days of the internet, the luddite resistance to it, and the outcome we're living in now.

The thing for me is, embracing AI isn't a question of simply using new technology. For me, it's a question of accepting accelerated environmental harm, affirming theft from human creators, and casting off the holy gift of human language and creation for a shallow, soulless counterpart that "outsources fluency" and renders "the act of care that makes meaning possible" optional.

This guest essay by Megan O'Rourke, executive editor of The Yale Review and professor of creative writing at Yale University explores some of these sentiments, and is well worth the read.