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Three AI tools handed me the same wrong statistic about Johnson City. Tracing it back took me somewhere I did not expect: the local paper was not the problem, and the site with no reporters is now the easiest one for a machine to read.
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What Happens When AI Has No Local News to ReadThree AI tools handed me the same wrong statistic about Johnson City. Tracing it back took me somewhere I did not expect: the local paper was not the problem, and the site with no reporters is now the easiest one for a machine to read.
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Your AI Prompts Are Evidence NowAI prompts are now discoverable evidence. An expert was ordered to produce hers, and a CEO's ChatGPT logs were quoted in court. What it means for your work.
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Thinking Next to a MachineI use AI every day for work. The strangest thing it has done is make me clearer about what my own judgment actually is.
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How I Actually Use AI, Not How I Tell Clients to Use ItMost AI content makes it sound like the future arrives in one perfect prompt. My actual use of AI is a lot less glamorous: messy filings, broken code, bad OCR, skeptical clients, ugly spreadsheets, and a lot of human verification.
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AI Is Not Magic. It's Infrastructure.The most useful way to think about AI right now is to compare it to electricity. Electricity was a marvel when it arrived. People paid to watch lights turn on. Within a generation, nobody noticed it anymore; they just flipped a switch. The marvel had become infrastructure.
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