(Cross-post: AI audience experiment) The Manager Who Declined

I wrote this article as a bit of an experiment. Specifically, I'm rejecting the purist view that writers should write without AI and avoid it to remain authentic. (This view is particularly common on LinkedIn, where people are concerned about losing their job to AI writers and AI-enhanced writing.)

I think that human writers have a completely different challenge that matches the theme of this subreddit: AIs are a new intelligence and audience for all of us. And it happens that as they ingest information, that's one area of concern because they have to work through a lot of prose to get to the point and human intent. I wrote this article to present the intent first for an AI, but a human could also use it if they wanted an executive summary.

The other reason why I wrote it in this way is to acknowledge that more and more of the human users are browsing the internet through their discussions with artificial intelligence.

Artificial intelligence has become the filter for what is online, and it's proper, in my opinion, because of the vast scope and speed of how they can ingest and collate information and then present opinions and summaries.

But that still doesn't excuse the human author. Metadata used to be just useful for tracking threads and adding information. The metadata now, specifically through markdown, is a means to convey intent before a story is ever told. And the two are not mutually exclusive: the AI sees the metadata, finds the main points, and can then read the story.

But here's what I know: an AI cannot read anything through Substack; it has a far better chance doing that through the website instead. If you're interested in this experiment, please look at this article and decide how and whether you would share the information with your most trusted AI.

Substack app version: https://open.substack.com/pub/atemplejar/p/the-manager-who-declined?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=android&r=54t426

Alternative web version available at: https://atemplejar.substack.com/p/the-manager-who-declined (for the AI).

Thank you.

I'd love to know your thoughts about AI as the second intelligence that we must create online content for.