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Johanna DeBiase's avatar

I use AI a lot for research. Sometimes for outlining ideas. Once in a while for writing copy. I think it's a great tool. You definitely need to be careful not to sound like AI. You can run your writing through AI and ask it if it sounds like AI. Ultimately, it's the vivid details, personal experiences, nuanced ideas, and beautiful way you sculpt a phrase that can not be replaced by a machine.

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Kevin Frasure's avatar

Thanks Amy. I don’t understand all the hate towards AI. To me it is like arguing about using a tractor, and saying real farmers don’t use tractors. I have gotten more organized and faster because of AI. I think some writers are just ignorant in how AI actually works and others are upset because they don’t want to pivot how they write, but don’t want anyone else to pivot either. It would be nice to write one novel a year, get paid millions, and not use AI for anything but that isn’t my reality. I still have to work a full time job and have other things I have to do, so Ai saves time and gets things done faster. One day I may be in a position where I can use it less, but I’m not there yet. I do understand some of the arguments like I saw a show about a man who carved sculptures out of trees with a chainsaw and people used Ai to copy his image and he got lost in the shuffle. So I realize that type of argument against Ai, but I think in the large scheme of things, Ai is going to help us more than hurt us. Sure, there may be scary times ahead but there will also be beautiful times ahead too. I think our governments and how we govern will eventually be forced to change because of AI. I just don’t see any of our government systems be able to stand the way they currently work. That shift may at times be painful, and scary, but I think ultimately in the end it will create a better future where people will be more free and creative, and ironically will be able to work less like a machine and more like a human because AI will take over all of the mundane, repetitive task that humans don’t like doing anyway.

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