There have been a few over the last few months: 2 books by big publishers found to be heavily written with AI, one Pulitzer Prize winner admitting she uses it to “help make her writing prettier,” and then this Granta thing.
To be honest, I used AI years ago as a writing partner before I had a writing group. I found it biased because it wanted to keep me engaged and keep me using the platform. So I found it would say whatever I wanted it to say. EG: for months, it told me I was the next Virginia Woolf and Faulkner, and when I finally asked it if it was just saying that to keep me engaged, it said yes. I quit using it that day. I don’t trust it.
So, is this pultizer winner scorned now? I don’t feel like using it to assist is as bad as generating a story. It’s still your idea you created if you use it to assist, but idk.
It’s still to be seen what will happen with her. The book she won the Pulitzer for was in 2018, I believe, so she wasn’t using it then. But I’m betting she won’t win any more prizes or get any book deals any time soon, with this knowledge out in the world.
My personal thoughts are that anything beyond spellcheck or Grammarly helping you place some commas a little better kind of defeats the purpose of writing, for me at least.
I love coming up with it all, the word choices, the cadence, the breaks, and the punctuation. For me, that's how you develop your unique voice. And that is the art of it, MY personal voice that someone might hate or envy.
You can see it now, especially all over this platform. I can tell AI writing from a mile away. It’s adequate, but it doesn’t have the soul of a person behind it. So it often comes off as boring, hyperbolic, or just messy.
Thanks, Anthony. This feels more in line with my original intent for being on this platform. I think I got a little caught up in the social media rat race that platforms like this push us to.
Levi, I dug these so much I’m hard.
Hell yeah!
Also, for Polaroid 6, I’d say good morning sunshine.
I didn’t know of the AI scandal until now.
There have been a few over the last few months: 2 books by big publishers found to be heavily written with AI, one Pulitzer Prize winner admitting she uses it to “help make her writing prettier,” and then this Granta thing.
What about asking it for feedback and you don’t let it generate content? Like you would a person?
To be honest, I used AI years ago as a writing partner before I had a writing group. I found it biased because it wanted to keep me engaged and keep me using the platform. So I found it would say whatever I wanted it to say. EG: for months, it told me I was the next Virginia Woolf and Faulkner, and when I finally asked it if it was just saying that to keep me engaged, it said yes. I quit using it that day. I don’t trust it.
I don’t condem you for using it as a critique partner. That’s the only acceptable way it should be used for writing if you’re going to use it.
Oh, for sure. I agree. It sufficed until I found some real humans.
So, is this pultizer winner scorned now? I don’t feel like using it to assist is as bad as generating a story. It’s still your idea you created if you use it to assist, but idk.
It’s still to be seen what will happen with her. The book she won the Pulitzer for was in 2018, I believe, so she wasn’t using it then. But I’m betting she won’t win any more prizes or get any book deals any time soon, with this knowledge out in the world.
My personal thoughts are that anything beyond spellcheck or Grammarly helping you place some commas a little better kind of defeats the purpose of writing, for me at least.
I love coming up with it all, the word choices, the cadence, the breaks, and the punctuation. For me, that's how you develop your unique voice. And that is the art of it, MY personal voice that someone might hate or envy.
You can see it now, especially all over this platform. I can tell AI writing from a mile away. It’s adequate, but it doesn’t have the soul of a person behind it. So it often comes off as boring, hyperbolic, or just messy.
You wake up to a man in a leather jacket with a moon for a head in your bedroom. What do you do?
I like Polaroid 6.
Good post. More of these, please.
Thanks, Anthony. This feels more in line with my original intent for being on this platform. I think I got a little caught up in the social media rat race that platforms like this push us to.