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Imagination is intelligence with an erection. Victor Hugo

I don't use AI for writing, but I have no choice but to use it in my day job. I, like many others, have mixed feelings about this. If you live in England, your GP surgery will have been using AI to triage and book appointments since October 1st...

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I don't use AI for writing, but I have no choice but to use it in my day job. I, like many others, have mixed feelings about this. If you live in England, your GP surgery will have been using AI to triage and book appointments since October 1st...

Interesting column from The Ethicist at the New York Times. Screenwriting is the example here but the response applies to all forms of writing. It seems the tide is shifting a bit in terms of writers considering it acceptable to use AI chatbots...

AI industry uses the excuse (as above): Writers are influenced by every book they've read. AI tools are influenced by every book fed to them. What's the difference? Well, AI industry, the difference is being inspired by others to create your own...

This is an interesting idea. I'd like a tool that pushes me outside the norm, but not at another's expense. As Hannah says, writers aren't being paid to help create the database of ChatGPT. The idea of me putting my writing into it scares me...

My question I guess is then, why write? If you don't want to break the story, and you don't want to push yourself and discover and express your own personal perspective, and you don't care about being original, and you don't care about...

I suppose they're are all kinds of writers, some only do it for the money, some the love, some the art etc etc.

Surely there's easier ways to make money! haha. In fact I can't imagine anyone writing for the money.

Takes all kinds! If they aren't really writing and only feeding A.I....

So it's all about the money? I'm not sure it's as black and white as that. Even if the sources (not just works of writers, but the entire catalogue of human knowledge and creation) were paid or acknowledged by the AI industry, it would still be...

Agree! But what if AI could do some of the grunt work, ie research or proofing or administrative support? Tiffany Yates Martin had an interesting post on this. (What to Consider in Using AI for Your Writing). She believes that the generative...

I write for all the reasons you mention, LJ. But I don't see anything innately evil in using AI for certain tasks (TBD) to save time or spark different ways of thinking. Of course, any information you obtain from a chatbot can be wrong but all...

I prefer people defined as mensches -no tools need apply. The thing is something was lost with driving to the library, asking the librarian, looking thru the card file. With AI the only history that gets handed to you is what the bots are allowed...