This is such a good thread, and meshes with the reasons I don't use GenAI tools to even brainstorm, much less write first drafts of anything. Why would I want to steer my thinking away from my own unique ideas and toward some probabilistic algorithm trained on who knows what parts of the internet?

Note to employment agency, I am currently unemployed and in need of funding for this research! Maybe stating the obvious but These posts are a part of getting known and getting hired, not the actual work.

And for the history nerds, I wrote about the idea of agency in environmental history, in a retrospective of Walter Johnson’s stunner On Agency

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