Yeah, that's part of it. And the convenience and affordability and potential for achievement. You can feel the discussion rapidly shifting from AI is anathema to a well, I only use it for X, Y, Z but would NEVER let it write for me. I lot of that sounds like doping in sports, where athletes claimed to only use steroids or other PEDs to "recover from injury," "get out there with my teammates," "give the fans what they paid for."
Yeah, right. You did it to get paid... own it. Even the publishers are using it to sort through their slush piles. How long before they use it to generate their own slush piles? They're paying the editors to make chicken salad of chicken shit anyway. The same ones who said two years ago they would never publish anything AI related will be walking that back faster than... who's the guy who ran marathons backwards?
That guy:
