Model Behavior: Taylor Lorenz
Kicking off an honest series about writers, thinkers, creators, and AI—how a tech journalist works with AI
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Substack introduces Model Behavior, a series featuring public intellectuals discussing their work with AI. The series kicks off with an interview with tech journalist Taylor Lorenz, exploring her use of AI tools and their impact on her writing. Substack aims to have an honest conversation about AI use and disclosure in the publishing industry.
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Model Behavior: Taylor Lorenz
Kicking off an honest series about writers, thinkers, creators, and AI—how a tech journalist works with AI
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We want to have an honest conversation about how publishers are feeling about and using AI. These tools are in their infancy, and while the norms around their use and disclosure are evolving rapidly, we think it’s important to ask top writers, creators, and thinkers about their work, their businesses, and how they intersect with where AI stands today.
That’s why we’re introducing Model Behavior, a new series featuring public intellectuals, critics, writers, and creators discussing how they work in this moment. We’ll ask candid questions about the tech industry, AI pet peeves, how it’s impacting their sense of identity and livelihoods. We’ll also ask each guest to give us a behind-the-scenes look at their creative process and explain whether and how they use these tools. From anti-AI purists to power users, we’ll get into the prompts they choose, their tool stacks, or their 100% analog workflows.
We start off this week with Taylor Lorenz, the founder of User Mag.
Do you find yourself altering your writing style to sound “less AI”?
Oh my gosh. A while ago, I wrote a piece for Vanity Fair where I used the phrase “deeply human.” That’s actually a phrase I use a lot. I use adverbs a lot. And somebody was like, “This is AI.” I actually had to show the edit history to prove it was my own bad writing.
How much do you spend on AI tools every month?
Probably about $300 a month.
When does AI use cross over from “tool” into “something I’d owe my readers a disclosure about”?
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