I don’t feel that I, or anyone writing here, has anything to “PROVE”. And the notion that there is now an unhuman machine that will judge what we write disgusts and enrages me. The only way I will be able to continue to engage with Substack is by IGNORING this whole Pangram thing and all the articles about it. Fortunately I’m pretty good at blocking out stuff that annoys me!
Absolutely. I don’t blame you at all. I think ignoring the whole thing may be the healthiest response. I only hope that Substack realises how alienating this is for the writers who made the platform worth being on in the first place.
I wrote a response to Substack and Pangram on how I use AI with my detailed personal dashboard that including planning my essay Arcs down to weekly outlines and capture against them to help further showcase how misguided such a scoring might be without further changes on how it should be used
I don’t feel that I, or anyone writing here, has anything to “PROVE”. And the notion that there is now an unhuman machine that will judge what we write disgusts and enrages me. The only way I will be able to continue to engage with Substack is by IGNORING this whole Pangram thing and all the articles about it. Fortunately I’m pretty good at blocking out stuff that annoys me!
Absolutely. I don’t blame you at all. I think ignoring the whole thing may be the healthiest response. I only hope that Substack realises how alienating this is for the writers who made the platform worth being on in the first place.
I would love see how these tools evaluate texts from Jane Austin, Ernest Hemingway, Annie Dillard, P G Wodehouse, etc.
I wrote a response to Substack and Pangram on how I use AI with my detailed personal dashboard that including planning my essay Arcs down to weekly outlines and capture against them to help further showcase how misguided such a scoring might be without further changes on how it should be used
I thought I'd see how some of my stuff held up under Panagram. This line got flagged as AI
"The WVU Department of English established the Russell MacDonald Creative Writing Award upon his retirement in 1991."