AI writing has been at the forefront of controversy this year, with news websites to fiction organizations being forced to chime in on whether it’s ethical or not.
It's hard enough to teach students about spelling, grammar, and building a sentence. Many teachers reach for the bottle in despair, after another fruitless attempt to show why and how sentences get strung into a paragraph. Morpheus beckons when the concept of "context" causes blank faces.
An AI, a mere expert system, does this poorly to incredibly bad, mimicking any third-tier bureaucrat's anemic prose. Cadence? Synonyms or phrasing? Hah!
I agree the author should do the writing, but AI can also be a very useful tool, provided that you continually challenge yourself to hone your skills; don't be like so many who believe they can simply sit back and let AI do everything. I don't think it is wrong for it to come up with a rough draft of something as you play with ideas or get the feel of a certain direction, but the final product should be you. It has become essential for my writing because of lack of time as a worldbuilding assistant, grammar help, discussing the plot, and coming up with more ideas.
Chatgpt is probably more so, but Claude, which is hailed for the best prose, has at least 10,000 leagues to go before it ever comes close enough to pass off as good writing.
He ain't wrong. An AI tool for grammar and spell checking is useful, but the whole point of my stories is that they are my stories.
It's hard enough to teach students about spelling, grammar, and building a sentence. Many teachers reach for the bottle in despair, after another fruitless attempt to show why and how sentences get strung into a paragraph. Morpheus beckons when the concept of "context" causes blank faces.
An AI, a mere expert system, does this poorly to incredibly bad, mimicking any third-tier bureaucrat's anemic prose. Cadence? Synonyms or phrasing? Hah!
AI can never capture the “feel” that LC is talking about. Imagine ChatGPT trying to imitate Watership Down or Huckleberry Finn. Yeah right.
I agree the author should do the writing, but AI can also be a very useful tool, provided that you continually challenge yourself to hone your skills; don't be like so many who believe they can simply sit back and let AI do everything. I don't think it is wrong for it to come up with a rough draft of something as you play with ideas or get the feel of a certain direction, but the final product should be you. It has become essential for my writing because of lack of time as a worldbuilding assistant, grammar help, discussing the plot, and coming up with more ideas.
Chatgpt is probably more so, but Claude, which is hailed for the best prose, has at least 10,000 leagues to go before it ever comes close enough to pass off as good writing.