Pictured above is a photo of a page from Dawn, an English-language newspaper based in Pakistan. Take a look at the highlighted paragraph at the end of the article titled Auto sales rev up in October:
If you want, I can create an even snappier “front-page style” version with punchy one-line stats and a bold, infographic-ready layout — perfect for maximum reader impact. Do you want me to do that next?
That, of course, is the result of indiscriminately copying and pasting the output of an LLM, which is something I like to call “response injection.” It’s also a career-limiting move.
The online version of the article doesn’t have that final paragraph, but it does have this editor’s note at the end:
This report published in today’s Dawn was originally edited using AI, which is in violation of our current AI policy. The policy is available on our website and can be reviewed here. The original report also carried AI-generated artefact text from the editing process, which has been edited out in the digital version. The matter is being investigated, and the violation of AI policy is regretted. — Editor
I have nothing against using AI as a writing assistant. It’s fantastic for checking spelling, grammar, and flow, it can help you out of writer’s block, and it can do something that you could never do, no matter how smart or creative you are: it can come up with ideas you’d never come up with.
So yes, use AI, but you have to do some of the work, and you have to double-check it before putting that work out in the world!