Using AI to research is no different (and may be better) than using Google
Using AI to generate prose is anathema to the artistic pursuit
Using AI to generate prose is anathema to the artistic pursuit
Things AI can do (but there aren't many)
- Thread starter Naomasa298
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There are a number of ways to use AI to support writing which don't involve generating prose or plot.
But no one has to use it if they don't want to.
But no one has to use it if they don't want to.
Except that google doesn’t generally make stuff up.
But it does point confidently at stuff that is made up
Largely by AI recently
You do have to use your common sense while researching anything
I do find the AI summariser on google useful but I have found a number of occasions where it quotes stuff from fiction as though it’s fact
You know how ChatGPT often gives you two different responses to choose from? It has, on more than one occasion, given me two different responses which were diametrically opposed to each other. So AI summaries need to be taken with doses of sodium chloride. More often than not, I use it to confirm or clarify details of subjects I am already familiar with, but if I'm not, I'll always confirm what it says separately.
The internet has been 90% pap almost forever!
AI is just increasing the volume of pap!
I have found Copilot good to cut down search times recently. Sometimes to check a small fact fast, but mostly to point at resources.
The advantage it has over Google for me is it will usually make sense of vague half baked questions.
Getting the right material out of Google often means getting a search term right and even when you do it will still give you Reddit and ads before anything else!
I moved this into the Writing Tech forum but I had to change the title. I would have done it sooner but didn't see it until Nao requested it be moved, so apologies for the delay. I'm not going to do this often, but I couldn't support anything that said "How to use AI to help your writing." The post itself and the arguments are fine, but the former title is a lighthouse for spammers and others that whole-heartedly support generative AI, and I don't want the wrong people to find it.
I'll entertain an alternate title @Naomasa298, but I couldn't let the last one stand. Again, apologies for that.
I'll entertain an alternate title @Naomasa298, but I couldn't let the last one stand. Again, apologies for that.
No worries, it's fine by me.
As long as we can have an actual civilised discussion about it, that's the only thing I ask.
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wearywanderer64
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It can't or won't pay my rent and bills. And it'll never replace the ones I love.
Probably not, but that isn't what were discussing here.
