Why I Have Not (and Will Not) Use AI on This Website
N.B. I wrote this piece several months ago and have had it in drafts ever since. This morning I came across a disturbing article on the prevalence of AI in online media and thought I should go ahead and post it. Confession time: at ninety posts and counting, covering everything from my rambling thoughts on fuel economy to detailed descriptions of how to measure your car's cooling system performance —I'm not writing these for you. Yes you, reading this post or any of the others here. Vehicle load diagram, generated 100% by me with no help from AI (we weren't allowed to use it in this course); the closed outline shows the operating envelope of the aircraft with all loads normalized to gravitational force. One unexpected insight in my most recent degree program was how quickly and insidiously the use of AI spread among the students, despite many instructors prohibiting its use on assignments like this one. I write them for me . My aim was to create a repository of inform...