Introduction to Machine Rhetorics

Image created in collaboration with Image Bot SD3 in BoodlboxToday, I finally want to explore a concept that's reshaping how I think about writing with artificial intelligence: machine rhetorics. While not completely new, this addresses a challenge many of us face - how to communicate effectively with AI systems.But before we start, let's take a quick step back. In the classical world, Aristotle defined rhetoric as "the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion." This may seem simple, but how this definition plays out has changed across the centuries as the “available means” have also changed.