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
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.