by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
I saw a blurb from an Atlantic Magazine writer about how AI being used to flesh out writing ideas was horrible because it reduced the amount of thinking involved.
Oh boy.
Where to begin with this one.
Now, let me be clear, I’m just opposed to AI actually doing the writing as anyone else. (I say this, of course, just as I pepper this blog with AI slop. But no one reads this blog, so lulz.)
But I do use AI to help me develop the novels that I write. In fact, I’ve finally figured out a pretty good workflow as to how to do properly. Yet, let’s go back to the issue at hand.
To me, this case against AI to flesh out ideas could also be used against spell checkers. I say this as someone who simply can not spell. My spelling is so bad that if spell checkers didn’t exist, I probably wouldn’t have had any journalistic career at all, no matter how failed it may have ultimately become.
But, using the logic of the Atlantic writer, if I really wanted to be a journalist that bad, I would have overcome my “disability” on the spelling front and figured something out, rather than letting spell check “think” for me.
Anyway, I need to start work on a new novel or something — with the help of AI. Wink.
