This blog post is Human-Centered Content: Written by humans for humans.

Hey, blog readers! We’re taking a quick detour from your usual tech-oriented how-to-guides, podcast replays and company culture pieces to do a bit of housekeeping on the blog. I don’t want to waste your time with my propensity to yap on entirely too long, so let’s do a quick TL;DR right here at the top, then break it down from there:

TL;DR

We’re adding Generative AI transparency to our blog, so you’ll always know if the content you’re reading was crafted by human hands. You’ll see new blurbs at the top of our blogs (like the one above) going forward that denote if content is Human-Centered, meaning 100% human written, or AI Assisted, where parts of a post are written by Generative AI. No fully AI-Generated content will be allowed on the blog.

So, Why?

All right, look: I’ll spare you the speech about AI being the best business innovation since sliced bread. We’ve all read it about a million times already, and if you haven’t, just open up your LinkedIn and scroll for about 12 seconds. You’ll find it, trust me.

That said, let’s call a spade a spade: AI’s here to stay, pending a massive EMP or zombie apocalypse. We all have to figure out where we’re going to fall on the AI usage spectrum. For us, we’re hedging our bets on the human side.

From a business perspective, the reason why is obvious. We’re a global data and IT consultancy. We live or die based on the quality and caliber of our experts — our Best People, if you will. A company in need should never, and will never, hire a consultancy based on how well their consultants can ask ChatGPT a question. It’s always going to be about the people, and what the people bring to the table.

And, from a content perspective, it’s also important for us to highlight human voices. If you, the reader, wanted an AI-generated answer to your question, you’d probably just ask an AI directly. ChatGPT and their competitors are free, and we’re not trying to compete with them. (Plus we’ve probably been writing the content it’s been training on for years, now that I think about it.)

Okay, What Changes?

In truth, not a whole lot. To the best of my knowledge, we’ve never had a blog that was a 100%, “We just asked ChatGPT to write us a blog post about X topic” type post. But starting soon, we’re going to clearly mark the blog posts that are written by humans. As a note: We’re not completely tossing AI out the window — just moderating how we use it.

Speaking of, let me draw the line for you all here by laying out what qualifies as Human-Centered Content, and what falls under the AI-Assisted Content umbrella:

Examples of Human-Centered Content:

• An author wrote a blog post about a concept in Tableau that’s just fresh off the top of their head.
• An author wrote a post about ThoughtSpot that the author ran through ChatGPT for editing or formatting.
• It’s still the author’s original thoughts and words, but ChatGPT helped with the editing on the backend.
• An author asked ChatGPT for ideas of what kind of blog post to write, then wrote it themselves with their own knowledge.
• Again, it’s still their original thoughts and words, but they got some inspiration from ChatGPT.
• An author includes sections written by AI/ML that clearly state they were written by AI, and it makes sense contextually.
• For example: “I incorporated a ML model into a data project, and this is the kind of output it produces,” or “I asked ChatGPT about this topic, and here’s what it said.” (Within reason, of course.)

Examples of AI-Assisted Content:

• A blog post where sections were written by AI and aren’t labeled as such.
• A blog where an author asks an AI model to write a blog on a certain topic, then adds their own handwritten section to the AI’s thoughts.

Hopefully, this gives you a better idea of what the line is! This isn’t an exhaustive list, but rest assured, we’ll be in good faith trying to be as open and transparent as possible with what’s human written and what’s AI assisted. For us, we want it to be just another tool in our tool belt, not a crutch for artificially boosting our blog output to game the SEO algorithm. Long story short: You deserve better than AI-generated slop articles, and we’re going to deliver on that promise.

Keep an eye out for those notices on future blog posts!