In an AI age, typos, mis-punctuation, bad grammar, and so on are all evidence of a human heart, mind and hands behind the written word. I can imagine these flaws becoming precious rarities in an age where fewer and fewer people know how to express themselves, or can even find a self to express.

You know, I think from now on, I’m going to go back to rawdog writing, and let the errors live. But this is not a final decision, even though I’m expressing it that way. (Sometimes, if I overdo the booze, I’ll tell people  “I’m never drinking again, for at least a week.”) I’m trying on a permanent resolution, just to see what it’s like and how my feelings toward it evolve.

(Please note, though, I have never allowed AI to do any of my writing for me. I have, however, gotten AI’s reactions to my ideas and retained some of my own spontaneous responses to its objections. And I have asked it to proofread what I write, just for errors, not for style. What I’m contemplating is excluding AI from my work flow altogether.)