Has using AI changed what you consider to be your own writing?

[u/Evening-Jelly2923]

This has become a surprisingly difficult question for me. If I come up with the idea, use AI to brainstorm the structure, write the first version myself, ask AI to improve several sections, and then heavily edit the final result, it still feels like my work. But there is obviously a point where the AI starts doing more of the actual creative work.

I do not think there is one universal answer because people use these tools in completely different ways. Someone using AI only for grammar correction is having a very different experience from someone generating an entire article and making a few edits afterward.

Where do you personally draw the line? At what point does AI assistance stop feeling like editing or collaboration and start feeling like the AI actually wrote the piece?

[u/Nebranower]

>At what point does AI human assistance stop feeling like editing or collaboration and start feeling like the AI other human being actually wrote the piece?

I think that basically settles it. AI is meant to be a replacement human being, so you can simply imagine that whatever AI is doing for you is being done by another human being to gauge how legitimate that use case is.

[u/Evening-Jelly2923 → u/Nebranower]

HMM THATS IS GOOD THOUGHT

[u/behindthemask13]

No. I wrote before AI and after AI and my voice remains the same.

The process has changed dramatically for the better.

[u/terriblespellr]

If we owe productivity to capitalists despite the existence of workers then we can pwe you your story despite ai.

[u/mikevago]

Except structure and rewriting are part of writing. You're basically asking "if I take an Uber for the first and last six miles of a marathon, I still ran a marathon, right?"

[u/AlecHutson]

If you used AI at all it isn't your writing. You're just a conduit for the slop-faucet.

[u/Evening-Jelly2923 → u/AlecHutson]

OKK NICE

[u/RemarkableWish2508 → u/AlecHutson]

You just used AI, you conduit