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sprucing up, fixing your mistakes, adding in "descriptive stuff"... that's like 90% of writing. Outsourcing it all to AI essentially robs the purchaser of the e
by listenallyall 3y ago
sprucing up, fixing your mistakes, adding in "descriptive stuff"... that's like 90% of writing. Outsourcing it all to AI essentially robs the purchaser of the effort required to create an original piece of work. Not to mention copyright issues, where do you think the AI is getting those descriptive phrases from? Other authors' work.
- YeGoblynQueenne 3y agoI think that you, like I did in the past, are underestimating the number of people who simply hate writing and see it as a painstaking chore that they would happily outsource to a machine. It doesn't help that most people grow up being forced to write when they have no interest in doing so, and to write things they have no interest in writing, like school essays and business applications and so on. If a chatbot could automate this... actually, even if a chatbot can't automate this, people will still use it anyway, just to end the pain.
- listenallyall 3y agoThe original post specifically stated he was utilizing AI for plot development of a novel. Not a school essay or business application.
- YeGoblynQueenne 3y agoI should have bookmarked it but there was an article shared on HN, published in the New Yorker I believe, or the LARB, or some such, where a professional writer was praising some language model as a tool for people who hate writing, like themself and other professional writers. I was dumbstruck. But, it's true. Even people who want to write, even write literature, can hate the act of actually, you know, writing. In part, I'm trying to convince myself because I still find it hard to believe but it seems to be the case.