by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner
A writer for The Wall Street Journal is in hot water for using an LLM to write a column. I think we should give the person a pass. So what if they used AI. Now, some context — I am NOT using AI to write my novel.
But, I will admit, that I am using it extensively for development.
It just speeds the process up too much not to be used. I used it some yesterday and I probably built-out three months worth of novel development in a few hours.
Anyway, back to the WSJ person.
I think we just need to get used to the idea that people are going to use AI to write stuff. We also need to accept that music is already being transformed by AI and that transformation is here to stay.
And, I will admit, that I’ve started to use AI more and more to write blog posts. But I generally clearly mark those that I do and also no one reads this blog — in general — so it’s a lulz.
But the people who get really upset over the use of AI in the creative arts for any reason really need to cool it.
But, at the same time, it is pretty lazy to use AI (or an assistant) to write an 800 word essay. Hell, I could do that pretty easily without breaking much of a sweat.
