I’ve been writing about AI for close to two years now.
As such, it might surprise you that AI hasn’t ever done any actual writing for me.
This isn’t because I am vehemently against AI writing.1
It’s because I enjoy the process of arranging words into sentences. It’s not something I want to outsource.
At the same time, I fully acknowledge that just as I might use an image model to make up for my lack of artistic talent, others might use a large language model to help them write something that might’ve otherwise gone unwritten.
Yet many writers scoff at the very idea of using “AI” and “writing” in the same sentence as I just did.
Listen, I get it.
You care about the story you want to tell, and you want to tell it in your voice. You don’t need AI and its filthy algorithms sucking the soul out of your narrative.
But there are many ways you as a writer can use AI without having it write a single word of the final text on your behalf.
No author is an island.
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