Ko-don Chronicles | The AI Debate

A Tool vs. A Cheat Code.

LUMICRON CAPTURE | HALLS OF THE ONE—RUHKHI
DISCIPLE GLATO TO FELLOW CLERGYMAN
“The desolation’s immense. Half of the building’s missing…”

The AI arguments are getting out of hand. Yes, it’s infecting everything, causing people losing jobs, and changing industries nationwide. I’m tackling this from a writing community angle. The brimstones are calling for no mercy, just blood, and we’ve got to feed them.

Times change, and so must we all. Twenty-some-odd years ago, some ingenious bastard introduced yoga pants to women, and it was scandalous to wear them to the store. Now? Every man thanks that madman for coming up with the idea. Vanity publishing was for “losers” who couldn’t make the “real author” cut. Then, Amazon introduced Kindle and the indie market exploded. Now, in general, no one looks down upon the indie author.

Enter AI.
I want to say this for all writers out there. Dear population of Earth, not every em dash—like the one I just used—is AI. We’ve used it long before AI came around, and we’ll continue to do so.

Let’s state this before World War III starts. Using AI to write your entire book, article, movie, or whatever, is inherently disingenuous. It’s laziness at the highest caliber, and if you mislead your audience about who’s doing the actual work, they’ll cheer as you burn.

Tacking onto that, are there people who will use AI to churn out content? You bet! It’s going to happen. I’d wager that big studios and publishing businesses, along with places like Amazon, YouTube, etc., are going to do it, if they haven’t already. Why? Because it’s cheaper, more money in their pocket, it’s faster, and you’re not going to care. You just want to be entertained.

“Are you not entertained?”

Now, for the other side of the coin: I’m not wholesale pro-AI’s usage in the arts. In fact, I’d say I sit in the middle of the spectrum, but I see it for what it is: a game-changing tool. And that’s where the real question comes into play—are you using it as a tool, or are you using it to do your work for you? I’d say it depends on what exactly you’re using it for and how much.

Is using Google’s search engine to find articles so you can write your college paper cheating? What if you wrote the same prompt into AI? Is that cheating? Both are just code: your input + execution = results.

AI is just the next step in the coding evolution.

But here’s one unequivocal truth that everyone must come to terms with, for good or ill: AI is here, and it’s going to stay, so adapt and overcome. AI isn’t a threat. Dependency upon it is. Let’s dive deeper…