Interesting, honest, and balanced. I enjoyed reading this, Liza, even though I remain firmly AI-averse. I do recognise its value for certain things but I think it’s a slippery slope!
I think this is a really interesting subject. I think it’s absolutely fine to use it in the way you have and I have also. But definitely not a prompt and get it to write a story and post it!! That is so obvious anyway. Today I asked it to find some garden furniture with specific details but it was useless and I got really pissed off. My grammar and spelling is soooo bad. I had a rubbish education and I ask it to teach me or ask have I done this right. I see my kids use it for advice on anything and also health issues. I see it only going one way. We will definitely be using our brains less in the future. I’m trying not to use it as much for advice or dilemmas as I can feel my cognition suffering.
I enjoyed this post. I have restacked it to spread the word, and also so that I can find it again, since I have not read all the material you reference.
You have once again reminded me that I need to purchase a headset and microphone (too much ambient noise around here) so that I can read my own posts with the correct intonation (and accent mixed all sorts of influences), instead of having AI balls things up.
Thanks for all your research. I think AI might well be useful in many ways (your recipe example is one, and the packing one too) but I am so vehemently anti AI that I even append "-AI" to my google searches.
I'm saddened when people, writers, I know say they use AI to look for certain patterns in their work or ask for help with making metaphors clearer. If you know what the issue is, then read through your own work and make the changes you want to make. I do think there's a little more leeway, as it were, when you're working in a second or third language, but part of what makes each of our writings unique is our own way of putting words together.
I won't knowingly share work by someone who is using AI in the creative process. I'm not very good at recognizing it (I'm too trusting) but when someone points out an AI piece (or a writer tells me they use AI!), I pull it from my page immediately. (Thank you for your help with that a bit ago.)
It is a really great topic and you've done so much extensive research. Outlining how you use AI demonstrates that it is primarily for your coaching work, not for your writing (packing and sushi aside) and that's an important distinction. People currently in the workforce don't have a choice. So, no judgment there.
As for writing, the Authors Guild in the US excludes grammar-check and light research (looking up a word, a name, or similar) from defining if a work was "human authored". We've been having these conversations at the Writers Union of Canada for several years now, starting when it was discovered that so many books were used without permission to train AI. It was too late to stop the avalanche and I feel like we are catching up constantly.
AI isn't going away and I think that regulation is the most important thing. What writers who generate content with AI should know is that their work is not copyrightable. So, legally, they have no claim over the work.
Lots of good insight as usual, Liza. Thank you.
Interesting, honest, and balanced. I enjoyed reading this, Liza, even though I remain firmly AI-averse. I do recognise its value for certain things but I think it’s a slippery slope!
I think this is a really interesting subject. I think it’s absolutely fine to use it in the way you have and I have also. But definitely not a prompt and get it to write a story and post it!! That is so obvious anyway. Today I asked it to find some garden furniture with specific details but it was useless and I got really pissed off. My grammar and spelling is soooo bad. I had a rubbish education and I ask it to teach me or ask have I done this right. I see my kids use it for advice on anything and also health issues. I see it only going one way. We will definitely be using our brains less in the future. I’m trying not to use it as much for advice or dilemmas as I can feel my cognition suffering.
I enjoyed this post. I have restacked it to spread the word, and also so that I can find it again, since I have not read all the material you reference.
You have once again reminded me that I need to purchase a headset and microphone (too much ambient noise around here) so that I can read my own posts with the correct intonation (and accent mixed all sorts of influences), instead of having AI balls things up.
Thanks for all your research. I think AI might well be useful in many ways (your recipe example is one, and the packing one too) but I am so vehemently anti AI that I even append "-AI" to my google searches.
I'm saddened when people, writers, I know say they use AI to look for certain patterns in their work or ask for help with making metaphors clearer. If you know what the issue is, then read through your own work and make the changes you want to make. I do think there's a little more leeway, as it were, when you're working in a second or third language, but part of what makes each of our writings unique is our own way of putting words together.
I won't knowingly share work by someone who is using AI in the creative process. I'm not very good at recognizing it (I'm too trusting) but when someone points out an AI piece (or a writer tells me they use AI!), I pull it from my page immediately. (Thank you for your help with that a bit ago.)
It is a really great topic and you've done so much extensive research. Outlining how you use AI demonstrates that it is primarily for your coaching work, not for your writing (packing and sushi aside) and that's an important distinction. People currently in the workforce don't have a choice. So, no judgment there.
As for writing, the Authors Guild in the US excludes grammar-check and light research (looking up a word, a name, or similar) from defining if a work was "human authored". We've been having these conversations at the Writers Union of Canada for several years now, starting when it was discovered that so many books were used without permission to train AI. It was too late to stop the avalanche and I feel like we are catching up constantly.
AI isn't going away and I think that regulation is the most important thing. What writers who generate content with AI should know is that their work is not copyrightable. So, legally, they have no claim over the work.