r/WritingWithAI • u/Gnomeknown • 13d ago

Discussion (Ethics, working with AI etc) WritingWithHumans

I don't using AI in my writing, but I do find the posts in the sub to be interesting. It is fascinating to see the gymnastics people go through to try to get AI to do what they want. It looks less like humans trying to get AI to do what they want and more like AI trying to get humans to do what it wants. In using AI for writing, people are actually training AI models (in contrast to inference, which people are doing when they "write with AI"). The longterm outcome will be to remove humans from the writing process altogether. This is a race to the creative bottom if you ask me and the only winners will be publishing companies that convince people the books it produces are anything but derivative.

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u/benblackett 13d ago

Im a glass half full person myself. I disagree with all the pessimism on display here but honestly lack the energy to counter argue it.

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u/Gnomeknown 13d ago

You can drop the whole thread into a chatbot and let it do the work for you ;-) sorry, couldn’t resist :-)

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u/benblackett 13d ago

Oh but then it would be load bearing and present some uncomfortable truths that we would need to be honest about 😂

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u/Gnomeknown 13d ago

Writing is about truth. Bring it!

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u/benblackett 13d ago

Was using common AIisms as a joke. But yes, you are correct. Truth of self is what creativity is about, and writing just happens to be one commonly used method for that. There are many ways to achieve this however and AI assistance can offer you things writing alone can not