Date: November 11th, 2026 10:16 AM Author: Consuela
I recently gave a wedding speech and deliberately didn’t use any AI for it, and received some compliments about it after the fact on that basis. Most of the other speeches I could tell used AI. People well acquainted with AI can increasingly tell when one is writing with a human or artificial voice, and the artificial voice one’s eyes glaze over. This is a good thing. AI definitely has its place - it is excellent to point out major flaws in ideas, as a sounding board to develop one’s own ideas further, and it can be a useful editing tool in the right place - but people want to hear the human voice with its jaggedness, its eccentricities, its gaps of logic, it makes the person interesting. I am a fan of the Pangram AI detection tool on Substack. It takes time to figure out where exactly the right balance is, but I appreciate this kind of human adjustment to the technology which is occurring.
Date: November 11th, 2026 10:28 AM Author: Consuela
yes, even the 90 IQ guys i know use it to draft their emails lol. but i do think the general ability to detect AI voice is increasing. people don't want to engage with it
it's horrifying but i think there's a decent percentage of stupid people who can't tell AI voice from moderately intelligent voice. they are an easily manipulated group
Date: November 11th, 2026 10:48 AM Author: Richard Ames
Part of what is maddening about this is that you can obviously use AI to make just about anything. It just takes a modicum of creativity and thought. But instead people just put in "create a flyer for a bake sale" and print out whatever pops up.
exactly. with a few prompts or iterations, you can get something that is interesting enough that would a critical eye to review carefully to detect it's AI. but most people never get there
tbf, where do we draw the line on what writing is AI? this is an interesting q. i'll work with AI for several hours to draft a section of a brief, and i'll do substantial editing to the AI output, and/or i'll tell AI to modify the writing style to do x or y to sound more like my writing. i might go thru 20-25 drafts before i'm happy with that.
is that AI writing? my writing? my briefs now look way different than they did pre-AI. they're just more wordy and robotic.