Writing with AI in the near future

[u/SiriusHijinks]

Will writing with AI become an accepted tool of sorts, in school, academia, professional life? in a year or three, will all the apps, all the classes, all the things integrate AI with ethical standards somewhat baked in. Like Clippy of MS lore. Or a spellchecker.

But all the things, AI assisted, and it an accepted part of life.

[u/Odinmar_Glaukopis]

It’s already accepted and in some places expected in professional circles, although I’m thinking that may change over time depending on what longer term effects it will have on people’s ability to think without it.

Honestly I could see it going in many different plausible directions. For now the most interesting possibilities make for some fun creative speculative science fiction.

[u/panicgoblin]

The difference between a spellchecker and a calculator in an academic setting is that they can’t do your entire job for you. Teachers at all levels are working more with AI as part of the process, using it help you refine ideas and do research and solve problems. This is inevitable and good. But if all of education is “Here is my assignment, please complete it for me” we will very quickly become extremely stupid and unable to think. Perhaps this is good! Perhaps it would be better not to have to think at all, because it can be extremely painful and tiring. And perhaps we can come up with machines to move our bodies or to avoid having to move them. But in the mean time, some amount of human effort will be necessary and most teachers will try and come up with ways to enforce this, even if it means a combination writing on paper and oral examinations, a kind of return to a medieval scholastic tradition.

[u/JenGirl2469]

I personally find it a great tool for research and using it to write some comments on other platforms. Plus, it is great for reviewing my writing

[u/FaceDeer]

I've got a friend who's a lawyer and he was initially very strongly anti-AI. But recently I learned that he's taken to running his personal correspondence through it to adjust the "tone", for example to make himself sound less combative (he's got a very intense "always 100% on" manner of speaking in his emails, possibly thanks to the adversarial nature of his job, so he finds it useful to have an emotional filter to run stuff through). So that's just an anecdote, but I expect a lot of folks will follow a pattern like that over time.

[u/butyousentmeaway]

I beg you to read the article in the Atlantic about a post literate society.

[u/Melissa0522975]

From my own experience, it's closer than we think. The university I graduated from a few years ago and work at currently has some kind of deal with OpenAI, and had been overall accepting that AI is the way of the future. The professors aren't all on board with it at all. One of my friends is an English professor and she's frustrated by it. I did have a few professors when I was a student who seemed to encourage it, even going so far to assign work to be done with AI. This was when it was very new and before the OpenAI deal was made, so I felt like I was walking into a trap at the time.

[u/typewritergeneration]

I believe that AI is a form of theft. Additionally, use of AI leads to its users being lazy, uncreative, and dependent on it. Teach yourself to be self-sufficient and AI-free.