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Tag: content generation

AI and judgement: Cultivating taste in an age of capability

Oct 15, 2025

in AI, Leadership, Learning, Writing

academia, AI literacy, automation, content creation, content generation, creation, critical thinking, curation, digital capability, evaluation, evaluative judgement, higher education, human judgement, professional development, professional identity, taste

Content creation is trivially easy now. Curation—selecting what to make—is also becoming easier as AI learns your patterns. What remains is taste: evaluative judgement about what should exist in the first place. AI can be descriptive but not evaluative. It can learn your preferences but cannot judge whether they’re worth amplifying. That’s your responsibility.
People are not content generators

Mar 27, 2025

in AI, Education

content generation, generative AI, paradigm

There are different ways of framing our engagement with AI, and the focus on content generation misses an opportunity to develop a deeper understanding of generative AI as a paradigm-changing technology.