Members’ Post | Debating AI

Where Authorship Ends and Surrender Begins

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. I’m tackling this from a writing community angle. Contract’s been paid, and the blade’s unsheathed. All we need to do now is stay on target.

Times change. Yoga pants were scandalous twenty-some-odd years ago. Now? Every man thanks the inventor. Vanity publishing morphed, and the Amazon indie market exploded.

Now, it’s AI.

Firstly: Dear population of Earth, not every em dash—like the one I just used—is AI.
Secondly: Using AI to write your entire book, article, movie, or whatever, is inherently disingenuous. It’s laziness at the highest caliber.
Thirdly: People will use AI to churn out content: big studios, publishing businesses, Amazon, YouTube, etc. Why? Because it’s cheaper, faster, and you won’t care. You just want to be entertained.
“Are you not entertained?”
Fourthly: I’m not wholesale for or against AI, but it is a game-changing tool. Do you use it as a tool, or to do your work for you?

Thinking Deeper: 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 here, and it’s going to stay, so adapt and overcome. AI isn’t a threat. Dependency upon it is. Let’s dive deeper…