This writer never uses AI.
The purpose of AI is to produce minimally viable text.
My purpose is to produce text that expands your mental foundations to be more skilled and more compassionate. Tech book, fiction, doesn't matter, that's the goal.
These purposes are incompatible.
@mwl Such a great point. I like movies, but tell people, "I want to see movies where I'm a different person when I leave the theater."
Same with books, as you say. Honestly it's why I bought all of your tech books. After reading them, my skills go up an order of magnitude. Which makes work easier, and the boss is more impressed, so I get paid more. I'm different after reading your books.
@mwl
A writer has a style, might change by series, or natural progression, or both. That style is heart felt by readers which draws continued interest in a writer's work.
What passes for AI (machine learning, weighted algorithms, enhanced Markov Chains) is a mish-mash. A heartless collection of output based on the amalgamation of stolen knowledge, lacking joy or pain or heart or understanding.
The current "AI" or Super-ELIZAs are junk science. They can amuse as parody which is fine. Their failing is to be assumed intelligent.
Maybe one day proper AI that is capable of independent creative thought may come to pass, but never while Corporate interests exist to pervert it. (See RoboCop for an example).
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