Respite, Now

Disclaimer: The podcast episode summaries of “Upstaged” found on this site are fully machine-generated, beginning with a machine transcription from my improvised audio file, which is fed into ChatGPT 3.5 utilizing the following prompt:

“Please read this and come up with a four paragraph article which adds none of your knowledge, but simply summarizes his thoughts about awareness. Do not reference the closing tags at the end about his website, listening to the music file, etc. Speak in the third person, and at a high school reading level.”

As many website designers move into fully writing posts through AI, I think it’s important that we tread lightly and explain the usage when it appears. I have spoken before about the “Brains vs. Hands Dilemma” and argue that my usage for this purpose is a case of more hands (i.e. I could have written a summary if I’d wished to) and not one of more brains (i.e. if I asked the machine to do something my own brain weren’t capable of).  In this case, my acceptance of the tool is not one of deception but of convenience, in the name of taking less time on this routine part of presenting my stories to a wider audience. The transcripts are available for greater accessibility.