On occasion, especially when I have a mild case of writer’s block, I’ll pull up an artificial intelligence writing tool and ask it what I should write about.

Usually, the suggestions are not super surprising but can give me a slight creative poke in one direction or another.

This exercise can also tease my technical interests, as I ponder what algorithms are picking up out there on the vast interwebs.

So, when this AI idea came up, I was a bit taken aback. The suggested title was, "Is the Okanagan losing its food identity?"

The suggested opening paragraph (written by AI) was “Not long ago, the Okanagan’s food culture was synonymous with orchards, farm stands, backyard bounty, and family-owned restaurants that knew their........

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