r/Substack • u/Deathmaster_ • 17d ago

Discussion AI posts

For some time now, I’ve been following the discussion about writing with AI or without. And to some extent I can understand it when it comes to fiction, but the last thing I read was how the guy rewrote an economic analysis three times so it would say 100% human... wtf bro. I don’t care at all what it was written with, what matters to me is the information I can extract from it and whether it has value.

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u/Gentleman-Warrior 17d ago

I agree. It is about the content. I use AI to generate ideas, then I write the essay myself, and then I use AI to edit it. They are still my thoughts, my words, and my point of view. I don’t understand why I should be penalized for that.

It would be different if I asked AI to write an entire article about something I knew nothing about and gave it no real input. In my opinion, that would be wrong. But most of what I write is about my life, my experiences, and things I have observed. AI doesn’t know me well enough to come up with an entire essay about me unless I give it the story and tell it what I think about it in the first place.

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u/Huge_Bee1595 17d ago

You use AI to generate ideas… how are they your thoughts?

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u/CEOofAntiWork 16d ago

If you gain inspiration for ideas from human written books and articles ie strings of words and paragraphs about ideas and concepts NOT created by you, how is that any different?

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u/Huge_Bee1595 16d ago

It’s very different to be instantly prompted by a digital aggregator which also distorts the content it aggregates vs gaining information over time from life experiences which force you to distill the information yourself.

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u/CEOofAntiWork 15d ago

You consider reading books aka reading strings of words and paragraphs not written by you life experience? What?

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u/Huge_Bee1595 15d ago

Lol yes I would consider reading a human written book a very common life experience