"That was a year or so ago, and my first brush with what generative AI could do. Like many, I started using it for fun: planning trips, finding nineteenth century authors I could recommend to fantasy-loving students (a genre I don't read), and making a holiday card starring my dog, Harry. But as work piled up, I didn't have time for new toys, so now I use AI for work."
"Having been raised by an English professor father who bled impatient red ink all over my angsty adolescent poems, I've always received editorial feedback as love. I used to tell Sarah Bray, a former editor, that if she really cared about me, she'd edit me more vigorously. "You obviously don't love me," I'd wail. There's a deep-seated fear that's dogged me since co"
A college president friend texted an odd question about Doug Lederman's favorite musical genre, leading to discovery of an AI-generated Jason Isbell song about Lederman and a corrected pronunciation version. The friend then sent an AI-created podcast with synthetic voices narrating the narrator's career, compiled from public information. Initial experimentation with generative AI began as playful uses—trip planning, literary recommendations, and a holiday card featuring a dog—before shifting into workplace tools due to time pressures. The narrator frames editorial feedback as an expression of love rooted in an English-professor upbringing and recounts a longstanding, unnamed fear.
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