I genuinely do not understand the desire by any writers to use one of these tools. By all means, have fun with them if you can ignore the effects they're having on creative professionals or energy consumption, but don't mistake the fun you're having with writing. You haven't written anything! At most, you've edited a plagiarism aggregator.
Totally agree. Attempting to be generous: I have certainly felt desperate looking at a blank page, and that's when AI is seductive. I suspect also that 1). people (including myself) are bad at boredom, which is necessary if you want to court ideas, and 2). people are often under this assumption that if they only had that initial, perfect idea, they'd be set—when the unusual, interesting ideas always come (for me at least) after I've been stuck for awhile, make some progress, and then get myself stuck again...
The advent of the IBM Selectric was the first nail in the coffin for "long form" communication; then came e-mail and text and before long none of us thought much about writing as a thoughtful activity (except for some of my parents friends who really put some effort into their yearly Christmas letters). The hand-written letters between George Sand and Gustave Flaubert are a case in point. "We may not identify convenience as a defining problem of our era, but of course, the point of convenience is not to think about it." yes! Thanks as usual for making me think! Love, Mom
I genuinely do not understand the desire by any writers to use one of these tools. By all means, have fun with them if you can ignore the effects they're having on creative professionals or energy consumption, but don't mistake the fun you're having with writing. You haven't written anything! At most, you've edited a plagiarism aggregator.
Totally agree. Attempting to be generous: I have certainly felt desperate looking at a blank page, and that's when AI is seductive. I suspect also that 1). people (including myself) are bad at boredom, which is necessary if you want to court ideas, and 2). people are often under this assumption that if they only had that initial, perfect idea, they'd be set—when the unusual, interesting ideas always come (for me at least) after I've been stuck for awhile, make some progress, and then get myself stuck again...
‘Enshitification’ will be my new favorite way to describe the spiral of the internet
The advent of the IBM Selectric was the first nail in the coffin for "long form" communication; then came e-mail and text and before long none of us thought much about writing as a thoughtful activity (except for some of my parents friends who really put some effort into their yearly Christmas letters). The hand-written letters between George Sand and Gustave Flaubert are a case in point. "We may not identify convenience as a defining problem of our era, but of course, the point of convenience is not to think about it." yes! Thanks as usual for making me think! Love, Mom