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Keep Your Salt Handy

Welcome to 28 Pixels. It’s me, Martin Koss. I share a lot here: experiences, things I’ve learned, tested, read about, and occasionally just wildly speculated on. I try to get it right. Honestly, I do.

But let’s not pretend I’m perfect (I’m far from it). Sometimes, I might write something that’s plain wrong or, shock horror, sounds utterly bonkers. At the time, though, it made sense in my head.

Now, about the elephant in the room: AI. Yes, I use it.

Oh no, pitchforks at the ready, right?

But let’s be real – almost everyone does (whether they know it or admit it, or not).

• Grammarly tweaks your grammar? AI.
• Your phone suggests the next word? AI.
• That clever little tool you used to generate your last hashtag list? You guessed it: AI.

So, yes, I use AI tools. And if you’ve been tapping away on a device today, so do you.

I’ll happily run a clunky sentence through ChatGPT or Grammarly to make it less, well, clunky. Or I might use a tool to help structure my ramblings into something readable.

But here’s the key point: everything starts with me. My ideas. My perspective. My very human brain trying to make sense of the chaos.

And before you run off to an AI detector to “expose” me, let’s talk about those tools for a second. AI detectors are about as reliable as the British weather forecast. Sometimes they’re spot on, but just as often, they’re shouting “RAIN!” while the sun is blazing overhead.

In many of my ‘AI Detector’ tests, I’ve even had my raw, typed and dictated text flagged as AI before – straight from my own tired fingers or my mouth, no tweaks. Go figure.

So here’s my ask: take what I share with an open mind.

My objective is always to give you stuff that can help you in one way or another (in business and in life), or just make you think, inspire you to go off and do your own research, and to not fall for clickbait and hype in a world that seems to have gone a little bit mad in recent years.

Question what I say – but know it came from a LOT of research and testing. Test my theories. Disagree if you like. Use it to spark your own ideas. But know this: I’m here, real me, sharing what I’ve learned, what I think, and what I’ve tested – for better or worse, and always in good faith.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got another piece to write. Probably with a little help from a machine that can’t appreciate a good cup of tea.