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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Denis Richard, post: 25987850, member: 112673&quot;]AI is an excellent writing assistant but not a reliable researcher. It can give a professional voice to your writing when your professional skills lie in another discipline, but it always comes down to knowing what you&#039;re writing about. The fact that you know where it&#039;s right or wrong is what counts, and you correct or clarify accordingly. </p><p><br /></p><p>In my opinion, where there are few to no facts to draw on, speculation is fine, and using &quot;may,&quot; &quot;maybes,&quot; &quot;implies,&quot; and &quot;suggests&quot; is okay, provided you don&#039;t use all of them at once, and certainly not several times each. Too much speculation dilutes your facts. This is a case where less is more.</p><p><br /></p><p>As much as I like AI, when using it, I have to be aware of other issues too. In your story above, I find this type of generated filler sentence amusing: &quot;This coin reflects the complex interplay of religious and cultural influences that characterized Cilicia during the late 5th century BC.&quot;&nbsp; It pretends to be a supporting fact, but it describes every civilization that&#039;s ever existed, so it&#039;s meaningless. I feel like in the background; it is writing a generic, &quot;....the complex interplay of religious and cultural influences that characterized [insert culture here] during the [insert date here]. </p><p><br /></p><p>There is now software that scans documents and looks for AI-written content, and it looks for stuff like that so I try to remove filler text that doesn&#039;t offer any value or insight.&nbsp; Again, less is more.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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