Here is a link to my Above the Law article on the importance of words.
I recently had an LLM suggest I remove ‘hot mess’ from a blog title. When I pushed back, it suddenly agreed the term was perfect. That post was one of my more popular ones.
This got me thinking about how much we might be losing when we let AI sanitize our word choices: the difference between good and memorable often comes down to a single word.
For lawyers especially, professionals whose job is communication and persuasion, completly ceding editorial judgment to algorithms that prioritize blandness over impact is a mistake.
Words matter. Don’t let robots choose yours.