Firecrown CEO going all in on AI content for aviation titles.

[lasdude]

It looks like CEO Craig Fuller is going all in on AI content.

How We Use AI

AI is changing how we tell stories; here's how we plan to embrace it.

www.flyingmag.com

 

[MountainDude]

I stopped reading after he said "Committing to never using AI sets a dangerous precedent."

 

[murphey]

I’ll bet the entire article was AI written.

 

[nauga]

Flying is still being published?

Nauga,
and his kindling

 

[Chris Mixon]

Thanks, this just reminded me to make sure my subscription to IFR magazine was changed to not auto renew!

 

[DaleB]

The problem I have with "AI generated content" pretty much anywhere is that it's just information - the good, the bad, the bald-faced lies, and the ignorant BS - scraped from the web. I can look that crap up myself. If I'm reading a magazine or web site, I'm looking for things that a PERSON wrote, with their analysis and opinions. I don't need every idiotic Reddit or web forum post baked into it.

For the same reason, when I do a Google search I automatically scroll past their "AI Overview" section. I can't count the number of times I've seen statements included in that that were simply wrong, but still stated authoritatively as fact. It's like getting answers from a 14 year old who hasn't yet learned that people can and do post nonsense on the Internet.

 

[AvNavCom]

Yeah...that was straight tech-bro and undoubtedly written "with the assistance" of AI. Totally agree with DaleB. If there's a faster way to kill Flying than doing this, I can't imagine it.

And I say that as someone who may actually be AI himself.

 

[rockwoodrv9a]

I didnt know of it before and now have no reason to look it up.
I did see that one guy who was there started his own site https://avbrief.org/
I looked at it and it is pretty good. I hope he has success.

 

[asicer]

I'm sure they'll attract a lot of AI subscribers with their AI content.

 

[Racerx]

Russ Niles started avbrief and said it would never have anything AI. I thought that was foreshadowing. And for once my intuition was correct.

 

[Chris Mixon]

I just subscribed to AVBrief...

 

[wanttaja]

Russ Niles started avbrief and said it would never have anything AI. I thought that was foreshadowing. And for once my intuition was correct.

I suspect that was the breach that led to his firing.

Like any tool, it depends on how its used. Plenty of examples lately of federal documents and legal briefs quoting non-existent precedences and studies.

Yet, as a writer, I like to have a neutral party examine my work and make suggestions. Using AI for that is reasonable, specially as it avoids the occasional interpersonal conflict when one doesn't agree with the suggestions.

But recall that AI is nothing but a gussied-up spell check. I don't always agree with what spell check tells me, to the point that I have autocorrect turned off on my devices.

The biggest downside to AI is that it will strip the writer's personality from their writing. We'll get a bunch of bland pap...maybe accurate, maybe not.

For example, imagine if the works by Ernest Gann, Richard Bach, or Martin Caiden were "corrected" by AI......

Ron Wanttaja

 

[Racerx]

I suspect that was the breach that led to his firing.

Like any tool, it depends on how its used. Plenty of examples lately of federal documents and legal briefs quoting non-existent precedences and studies.

Yet, as a writer, I like to have a neutral party examine my work and make suggestions. Using AI for that is reasonable, specially as it avoids the occasional interpersonal conflict when one doesn't agree with the suggestions.

But recall that AI is nothing but a gussied-up spell check. I don't always agree with what spell check tells me, to the point that I have autocorrect turned off on my devices.

The biggest downside to AI is that it will strip the writer's personality from their writing. We'll get a bunch of bland pap...maybe accurate, maybe not.

For example, imagine if the works by Ernest Gann, Richard Bach, or Martin Caiden were "corrected" by AI......

Ron Wanttaja

The problem with ai for things like this is it's just a compilation of things people already wrote. Without a real person doing real work, there's nothing for AI to regurgitate. It's really just plagiarizing someone that actually wrote something.

 

[RyanShort1]

Words cannot adequately describe my actual feelings of revulsion towards AI content.

Even Russ’ political leanings are less repugnant and I often choose to read his thoughts even when I suspect I’ll disagree.

 

[AV8R_87]

The problem I have with "AI generated content" pretty much anywhere is that it's just information - the good, the bad, the bald-faced lies, and the ignorant BS - scraped from the web.

In other words, stealing other people's work.

 

[kyleb]

For example, imagine if the works by Ernest Gann, Richard Bach, or Martin Caiden were "corrected" by AI......

Ron Wanttaja

AI would tell you it's Caidin. ;-)

 

[wanttaja]

AI would tell you it's Caidin. ;-)

Everybody's a critic...

Ron Wanttija

 

[Ghery]

For example, imagine if the works by Ernest Gann, Richard Bach, or Martin Caiden were "corrected" by AI......

I don't want to imagine it, even if Martin's last name was Caidin. Regardless, it would be wrong.

 

[lbfd101]

I just subscribed to AVBrief...

So did I

 

[ateamer]

I stopped reading after he said "Committing to never using AI sets a dangerous precedent."

Yeah, a precedent of having to actually write. Oh, the horrors!

 

[2-Bit Speed]

He's going to have to accept going 'all in' on AI readership too.

 

[RussR]

Ooooooooohhhhhhhh. Craig Fuller is the CEO of Firecrown? That explains a lot.

Different Craig Fuller than the previous AOPA President, if that was the cause of your comment.

 

[MauleSkinner]

Different Craig Fuller than the previous AOPA President, if that was the cause of your comment.

“Different Abby.”