By Phil Gee · AI Academy, Southport
AI tools are impressive, and that's exactly why people get caught out. The writing sounds so confident and so polished that it's easy to assume every word is right. Sometimes it isn't. An AI can get a date wrong, invent a statistic, misquote a price or state something that was true a few years ago but isn't any more, and it will do it without a flicker of doubt.
That doesn't mean you shouldn't use it. It means you stay in charge. Before you send or publish anything, check the things that really matter: names, prices, dates, phone numbers, web addresses, and any figure someone might rely on. If it touches anything legal, financial or medical, check it properly with a professional or an official source. It only takes a couple of minutes, and it's your name on the end of it.
A good habit is to read the finished piece out loud. If anything sounds odd, overconfident or not like you, question it. Think of AI as a fast, talented assistant who occasionally gets things wrong. You wouldn't send a junior's work to a client without a quick look, and the same goes here.
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