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How To Make The Security Team Laugh

How to make the security team laugh
How to make the security team laugh

When I go to the grocery store, I always park in the same spot.

I park in the very back.

It’s my security check.

I can avoid door dings.

And I always remember where I parked.

However, on this particular shopping trip, the grocery store was crazy busy.

There were no parking spots available anywhere.

I had to drive around the lot several times.

I finally found a parking spot when someone pulled out.

It was a first-row spot.

What luck!

However, I guess I left my brain at home.

When I finished my shoppping, I walked straight to the back of the parking lot.

And my car wasn’t there!

I remembered that I had parked elsewhere.

But where?

I had to walk up and down five different aisles before I found my car.

I know, I could have hit the alarm.

But it was crowded, and I didn’t want to scare anyone.

I finally found my car exacty where I left it.

In that first-row spot.

That great parking spot was totally wasted on me.

I’ll bet they had a good laugh at me from the security cameras.

Next time, I’m parking in the back.

Liz Brenner

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I Love To Interrupt, Even If AI Disapproves

I love to interrupt, even if AI disapproves
I love to interrupt, even if AI disapproves

I know, I know, I know, it’s rude to interrupt.

But hear me out.

Teaching spelling can be boring.

It’s boring for the students.

It’s boring for the teacher.

But it’s necessary.

To liven up my classes, I’ll have the students write silly sentences with their words.

The only rule is that the sentences must make sense grammatically.

They can be as outrageous as they want.

As long as they keep it clean.

One kid went above and beyond the assignment.

Instead of a silly sentence, he wrote an entire silly story, incorporating all the spelling words on our list.

He wrote a very long missive about how he loves to interrupt (which was one of the spelling words.)

It was a funny story, and he had the whole class giggling.

However, when we ran the story through our classroom AI Text Proofreader, he got a long, stern lecture about manners.

It’s rude to interrupt.

Well duh.

Of course it’s rude.

That’s what made the story funny.

We tried all kinds of different prompts to let the text proofreader know that this story was satire.

It kept giving us the same response.

It was the perfect opportunity to talk to the students about the limitations of artificial intelligence.

AI doesn’t understand nuance.

Satire is nuance.

AI just doesn’t get it.

Artificial Intelligence is good, but in the end, you have to rely on your own sound judgment.

I hope they remember this very important lesson.

Liz Brenner

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Cliché? Or Truth? Or A Little Bit Of Both?

Cliche? Or truth? Or a little bit of both?
Cliche? Or truth? Or a little bit of both?

It’s cliché, but it’s true.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

Artificial Intelligence seems to be taking over the world.

But AI has its limitations.

It’s just a tool, like spellcheck or grammar check, that absolutely needs human oversight.

I watched a video clip the other day that was obviously created by AI.

It kept pronouncing the word steady like steedy.

Yes, /ea/ can be a long /e/ sound sometimes.

Like in the word meat.

But not in the word steady.

A human would have caught that.

I saw another video clip about crochet.

It kept calling the crocheter the “cr**ch eater.”

Oops.

Whoever made that AI clip and slapped it onto their website without reviewing it should be very, very, very embarassed.

I read an article about a college professor who was so fed up with students using AI that he is now requiring all assignments to be handwritten, and all exams to be oral.

Just like in the old days!

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

It’s cliché, but it’s true.

Liz Brenner

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I Didn’t Do It This Time, But I Tried

I Didn't Do It

I Didn't Do It

I Didn’t Do It

I didn’t do it.  

Seriously.  

I wrote an article for a client.  

They ran it through an AI Detector.  

They told me it looks like AI wrote it.  

Should I be insulted?  

Or should I be proud?  

Do I write so well that it looks like a bot wrote it?  

Or do I write so badly that it looks like a bot wrote it?  

The client didn’t clarify that point.  

At any rate, I didn’t do it.  

I did not use AI to write this piece.  

AI does lots of wonderful things.  

But it can’t write.  

It overwrites, creating pieces that are terminally mansplained.  

As an aside, I hate the word “mansplain.”  

It’s sexist.  

I am just as capable as any man of speaking in a condescending and patronizing tone.  

*Note to self – invent a better word.  

At any rate, I have tried to get AI to write a blog post for me.  

Just to see if it could capture my voice.  

For the record, it can’t capture my voice.  

No matter which AI program I use or how many detailed prompts I give it, it just writes a terrible imitation of me.  

So, no, Mr. Client, I did not use AI to write your article.  

I didn’t do it.

Liz Brenner

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AI Is An Amazing Tool, But It Has Its Limits

An Amazing Tool

An Amazing Tool

An Amazing Tool!

AI is an amazing tool.

But I’m not worried about it taking over for writers.

Not one bit.

Today I tried to get AI to create some insults for me.

I was going to work them into a humorous piece.

Its response was to refuse my request because it would be inappropriate and unethical to generate that kind of language.

And then it lectured me about being kind to others.

To test the system, I asked for some Shakespearean insults.

It gave me a few, but there was still a warning at the end about being kind to others.

The thing is, if you’re a writer, you have to write about all kinds of topics.

You can’t write a murder mystery without a murder.

You can’t write a romance without, *ahem*, romance.

You can’t write a conflict without conflict.

The joke among writers is that if one of us dies suddenly, the others MUST come in and delete the search history.

Writers have to research some weird stuff.

If AI refuses to generate certain perspectives, then it is very limited in what it can generate.

On the other hand, what if it did produce insults?

They might be too outrageous or offensive for me to use.

I would have to be so specific in my request to find just the right tone that I might as well write the insult myself.

I think AI is an amazing tool.

But it has its limits.

We still need writers.

Liz Brenner

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