How we Use AI at
Ohio Living Guide
At Ohio Living Guide, we choose humanity over technology. The content and design of this website have been created by people who possess decades of professional tech and writing experience, as well as a lifetime of connection to Ohio in all the beauty, achievements, flaws, and failures of its citizens, culture, history, regions, and natural resources. We offer our readers a rich, nuanced exploration of Ohio life with the intent of connecting them with useful information and resources.
How we use AI
In creating the Ohio Living Guide, we’ve tapped into the power of artificial intelligence (AI)—not as a replacement for human insight but as a tool to enhance our creative process. We use AI as a collaborative part of brainstorming, outlining, ideating, and drafting content, always under our careful guidance and review. Every page of Ohio Living Guide contains the personal insights, experiences, and the authenticity of Ohioans. Ohio Living Guide is made by humans for humans.
This approach is informed not only our desire to communicate unique and interesting things about Ohio that only Ohioans could share, but also by our consideration of technology’s growing overreach in people’s lives. Our concern about AI-generated writing echoes the concerns of the Center for Artistic Inquiry and Reporting in its open letter about AI illustration that pointedly states:
AI purports to have the capability to create art, but it will never be able to do so satisfactorily because its algorithms can only create variations of art that already exists. It creates only ersatz versions of illustrations having no actual insight, wit, or originality. Generative AI art is vampirical, feasting on past generations of artwork even as it sucks the lifeblood from living artists. Over time, this will impoverish our visual culture. Consumers will be trained to accept this art-looking art, but the ingenuity, the personal vision, the individual sensibility, the humanity will be missing.
In his early 2024 article, “The New Luddites Aren’t Backing Down,” journalist Brian Merchant’s reflections on technology’s double-edged sword resonate with us, underscoring the importance of leveraging technology in ways that enrich rather than exploit and diminish the human experience.
Our commitment to integrity, transparency, and humanity
In light of our resolve to maintain the integrity of Ohio Living Guide even as we benefit from certain aspects of AI, we will continually evaluate how we incorporate technology into our website and processes. The landscape of digital technology is constantly evolving, and with it, the tools and methods at our disposal for content creation. That will not change our commitment to producing content that offers authentically human insight and creativity.