Content Conductors: Improving the Writing Process with Prompt Engineering

Imagine a piece of writing as a song. Each word is a note, arranged in concert with one another to produce a pleasing composition. The writer is the composer and conductor, adding style and fine tuning each performance to the audience’s ear. If traditional writing is a classical overture, then it might be easy to […]

Authenticity in the Age of AI: A Delicate (and Critical) Balancing Act

Authentic. The word has captured the public’s interest – so much so that Merriam-Webster named it 2023’s Word of the Year as many searched for its *true* meaning. Celebrity culture and social media are behind some of the newfound interest, but a driving factor is the rise of generative AI. Merriam-Webster perfectly captured the connection […]

Ethics, AI, and Content Writing

ChatGPT recently had a birthday, of sorts. OpenAI opened the innovative software to the public last November, making the artificial intelligence tool a truly precocious one-year-old. Just as other one-year-olds are learning to talk, ChatGPT’s large language model (LLM) becomes more sophisticated with every conversation it has with users. It’s learning and growing much faster […]

Real Writing in the Age of AI: Why Human Writers Aren’t Going Anywhere

What does AI have to do with storytelling? This was the question that came to mind when I saw the speaker lineup for the Virginia Professional Communicators Spring 2023 Conference, which I had the privilege of attending with my Version A colleagues. (Side note – we won two awards!) At first glance, the three lectures […]

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