The Biggest Tell That Something Was Written by AI

Now some authors tell me they’ve embraced AI as a “writing tool,” no different from spell-check or a laptop. The phrase is ...

FBI Warns Companies About Ransom Gang’s Fake IT Support Tactics

The FBI warns Silent Ransom Group is targeting US law firms with phishing, fake IT calls, and in-person visits to steal data ...
PC Tech Magazine

How Better Font Choices Can Improve Digital Product Design

Fonts are one of the most powerful design elements in any digital product, yet they are often treated as a final detail ...
The Guardian

I knew my writing students were using AI. Their confessions led to a powerful teaching moment

The problem wasn’t just the perfectly polished, yet mediocre prose. It’s what’s lost when we surrender the struggle to translate thought into words I have been teaching fiction writing at MIT since ...
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How to choose stylish fonts for branding for small businesses

A font’s purpose is unique. For branding and logos, the right fonts perfectly communicate your brand’s personality. Most brands prefer stylish fonts because they help shape public perception. In this ...
The Guardian

In this machine age we must hold on to imperfect writing. It is not flawed. It is human

We need the mess of it all. Without it, what remains are sentences that are technically flawless but emotionally vacant Some people are naturally drawn to writing – scribbling notes in the margins, ...
The New York Times

How A.I. Killed Student Writing (and Revived It)

High school and college teachers are watching students write, in the classroom, in order to protect against the incursion of artificial intelligence. Credit...Video by Lauren Lancaster For The New ...
The Conversation

College students are writing with AI – but a pilot study finds they’re not simply letting it write for them

Rather than hand off writing to chatbots, college students in pilots showed that they use them to brainstorm and help get started. Kriangsak Koopattanakij/iStock via Getty Images Debates about ...
New York Magazine

The People Falsely Accused of Using AI

When Jared Hewitt’s co-worker claimed last winter that Hewitt used AI to write an incident report, she did it publicly. “And I work at a day care, so she was berating me in front of children,” he says ...
The Washington Post

In some classrooms, teachers ask: Can AI teach students to write better?

When Craig Schmidt gave his high school English students an assignment based on “Fahrenheit 451,” he threw them a curveball: He told them to use ChatGPT. Schmidt asked the class to write several ...
The Atlantic

Does Writing Have to Be Hard?

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here. ChatGPT and food-delivery droids came to my campus at roughly the ...
University of California

How writing rewires your brain to face everyday challenges

Written words can do more than communicate. They can also unlock the writer’s ability to process distress, identify hurtful feelings and take control of personal conflict. Emily Johnston, a writing ...