I've just written about this too, in terms of AI images. It seemed useful to take on the written aspect of AI too, so I documented the process of getting an editorial check for the piece. In the end, I only took action for one paragraph, yet it still needed my own edit to get the improvement I wanted.
I'm super happy to disclose AI uses, with the willingness to decrease (or increase) use based on what seems reasonable. I could do SOOOOO much more with the tools, but I've chosen not to for now. That might be "leaving money on the table" so to speak, but I'm trying to take the most reasonable approaches to cover as many angles and opinions as possible. After all, the public have been thrown all this AI stuff without warning, so I want to take a curious, yet cautious, approach.
If it wasn't for the valid and necessary concerns around the legal situation around how AI models have been trained, I would be less bothered. But it does need addressing. That takes forever, but there we go!
As a writer, nothing I've seen so far seems worrying about the death or outsourcing of creativity and art. But I can see why creatives are worried about the way some companies and publishers have been leaning into AI. It's led to some people already missing out on work and commissions in an already difficult marketplace. But given how little time has passed since the introduction of ChatGPT, which kicked off the biggest hype, the public backlash and boredom shows that any lazy use of AI tools and reliance on outsourcing it all to bots isn't appreciated by many.
I've been torn from the start, so I'm venturing through all camps between pro- and anti-AI. I'm not sitting on the fence, but I'm constantly crossing over each side. I'm a resident and a visitor, a familiar face and a stranger... A difficult place to be where there's a lot of fear and excitement and overwhelm and overstating and hype and boredom and everything else. But it feels necessary under these strange and uncertain circumstances.
How insightful! I like your AI-assistant suggestions
Thanks ☺️
I've just written about this too, in terms of AI images. It seemed useful to take on the written aspect of AI too, so I documented the process of getting an editorial check for the piece. In the end, I only took action for one paragraph, yet it still needed my own edit to get the improvement I wanted.
https://www.ongoing.network/p/images-as-real-or-fake-or-otherwise
I'm super happy to disclose AI uses, with the willingness to decrease (or increase) use based on what seems reasonable. I could do SOOOOO much more with the tools, but I've chosen not to for now. That might be "leaving money on the table" so to speak, but I'm trying to take the most reasonable approaches to cover as many angles and opinions as possible. After all, the public have been thrown all this AI stuff without warning, so I want to take a curious, yet cautious, approach.
If it wasn't for the valid and necessary concerns around the legal situation around how AI models have been trained, I would be less bothered. But it does need addressing. That takes forever, but there we go!
As a writer, nothing I've seen so far seems worrying about the death or outsourcing of creativity and art. But I can see why creatives are worried about the way some companies and publishers have been leaning into AI. It's led to some people already missing out on work and commissions in an already difficult marketplace. But given how little time has passed since the introduction of ChatGPT, which kicked off the biggest hype, the public backlash and boredom shows that any lazy use of AI tools and reliance on outsourcing it all to bots isn't appreciated by many.
I've been torn from the start, so I'm venturing through all camps between pro- and anti-AI. I'm not sitting on the fence, but I'm constantly crossing over each side. I'm a resident and a visitor, a familiar face and a stranger... A difficult place to be where there's a lot of fear and excitement and overwhelm and overstating and hype and boredom and everything else. But it feels necessary under these strange and uncertain circumstances.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts Martin. It is a complex topic and yes I certainly see both sides. Will be interesting to see how it all progresses!