Dean Burnett (that brains guy)You wrote a novel using AI? Cool. It's like that time I ran a marathon using a Ford Focus.
Timothy Roes@Garwboy That's too easy. Ever read this essay by Steven Berlin Johnson? This sort of collaboration between writer/thinker and AI seems very valuable and productive and doesn't diminish the work of the writer/researcher in the least https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/30/books/review/tool-for-thought.html
Tool for Thought
Steven Johnson essay on new computer-based tools that can integrate research for writers within personal library of files; describes features and results of his personal experience; says new tools allow creative collaboration between writer's intelligence and software's search and retrieval capabilities; says advent of word processors changed way writers wrote and new software will change way they think; photo (M)
Bee@TimothyRoes @Garwboy That was written 20 years ago when this whole field was different. (Also it’s paywalled so I did not read the whole thing.)
Certainly it is possible to have a positive creative relationship with these tools and use them to empower your thinking and writing.
But that’s not what people are doing; we are instead drowning the collective history and memory of our species in so much mechanically produced word salad that ‘writing’ is in danger of losing all meaning.
@TimothyRoes @Garwboy Societally I think you’re right, but it’s a bubble that is going to pop for at least four reasons (unprofitable, error prone by design, isn’t offering business benefits and is vulnerable to trade & energy disruption) so while we wait for all that to play out what we can do is work on our individual positions.
In truth there is no genie. There is spicy autocomplete and a mass abdication of responsibility in the presence of a shiny new toy. Resist ✊