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You’re fighting the tide. Within a few years, everyone’s favourite author will be someone who writes using AI, the highest-flying entrepreneurs and most sought-

You’re fighting the tide. Within a few years, everyone’s favourite author will be someone who writes using AI, the highest-flying entrepreneurs and most sought-after employees will be adept at using AI, and you will be forced to jump into the same boat as you discover that your reticence is seeing you left behind. Really, is this any different to the usual smoke and mirrors people use to get ahead? Before now, it was hiring ghostwriters or farming your work out to other humans and pretending you did it and accepting plaudits barefacedly - this is just the newest iteration of the same old shit. Think of Damien Hirst. The guy is renowned as an artist, but doesn’t actually produce anything himself - he has a team of pet artisans who come up with concepts and execute them, and he then sticks his signature and a price tag on them. Just like Michelangelo, or da Vinci, or titian. Think of the biggest pop stars - none of them write their material, none of them can sing or play an instrument - their chief skill is in taking credit and self-aggrandisement. Think of politicians - they have armies of advisors, writers, and staffers - they are empty vessels which echo sonorously. Sorry to break it to you, but this is how it works, and always has. The biggest bullshitter always wins.

tempestn 3y ago
There's nothing wrong with using AI. I expect you're right that a lot of successful authors and other professionals will use AI, because it can be hugely useful. But like any tool, it can be used well, or used poorly. If a cover letter comes across as having been written by AI, you're using it poorly. If you're using it well, you should end up with something at least comparable to what you'd write yourself.
sakjur 3y ago
You could be wrong. If you’re going to question the sincerity of everything, it’d be tasteful to question your own conclusions as well.
- madaxe_again 3y ago
  I don’t pass the work of others off as my own, and if you want to believe that everything is just as marketed, then be my guest.
weregiraffe 3y ago
>Within a few years, everyone’s favourite author will be someone who writes using AI, No. If the author couldn’t even be bothered to write it, people won't bother to read it.

tempestn 3y ago

There's nothing wrong with using AI. I expect you're right that a lot of successful authors and other professionals will use AI, because it can be hugely useful. But like any tool, it can be used well, or used poorly. If a cover letter comes across as having been written by AI, you're using it poorly. If you're using it well, you should end up with something at least comparable to what you'd write yourself.

sakjur 3y ago

You could be wrong. If you’re going to question the sincerity of everything, it’d be tasteful to question your own conclusions as well.

madaxe_again 3y ago
I don’t pass the work of others off as my own, and if you want to believe that everything is just as marketed, then be my guest.

weregiraffe 3y ago

>Within a few years, everyone’s favourite author will be someone who writes using AI, No. If the author couldn’t even be bothered to write it, people won't bother to read it.