NYT tech correspondent Mike Isaac rejects universal tool adoption, stating he uses no new technology for routine 30-year-old workflows
Kevin Roose questioned if Isaac still transcribes interviews manually.
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yeah i'm not defending AI use in the writing part of writing, but there is so much else involved in the job (like transcription, research, fact-checking, etc.) that i'm genuinely fascinated by the holdouts who refuse to touch AI at all.
like...i spent years transcribing my own shit and pulling clips from LexisNexis. it sucked!
rat king 🐀@MikeIsaac@kevinroose i take your greater point though. and i am not saying "butlerian jihad now" b/c AI is not new and has been around in many forms forever i buck against universals though, specifically in the writing part of writing. someone saying "everyone does it" usually means "i do it"
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