Uploaded December 2023 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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While every app rushes to add an AI assistant, iA Writer's Oliver Reichenstein asks, "Why should I bother reading what you haven't written?"

Here he talks tells about the deep thinking behind the latest version 7 of IA Writer and the new feature that dims the text you paste from AI tools, keeping track of what is yours and what isn’t.

TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro
02:00 The evolution of iA Writer
08:45 iA Presenter
17:44 Q: Does iA Presenter use revealJS under the hood?
19:30 Writing and thinking
25:45 Chat-GPT as philosophical dialogue partner
32:00 Authorship mode & Markdown Annotations
39:45 On being ripped off
47:00 On being opinionated
50:00 Markdown Annotations spec
56:15 Where to find Oliver
59:45 Final question – one small thing
1:01:30 Wrap-up

SHOW LINKS

OLIVER
iA - ia.net

iA Writer - ia.net/writer

iA Presenter - ia.net/presenter

Writing with AI - ia.net/topics/writing-with-ai

Oliver on Mastodon - @reichenstein@mastodon.net

iA on Mastodon - @ia@mastodon.net

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