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"Do you think any of these stories are better for my point?"

That's what Martin asked his AI before our writing consultation.

After a long career in tech, he's writing essays about his faith, building arguments out of his own experience.

A while back, Martin had written out a dozen stories about turning points, key moments that changed his life. So as he was writing his current essay, he pointed his AI at the stories and asked which ones fit his point best.

He mentioned it in passing, as a tip.

But I had to stop him, because I'd done the same thing in my final year of university—and it nearly cost me my degree.

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