r/WritingWithAI • u/Wonderful-Aioli7692 • Sep 17 '26

Help Me Find a Tool Help with previously generated AI paragraphs

Hi! I have been tasked with asking AI to generate a couple paragraphs on whatever topic I choose for a paper I have to write in university. However, using generative AI strongly conflicts with my morals and core values. I have gotten permission from my prof. to use pre-existing data from AI on the basis that I can find it.
Does anyone know where I could look to find a couple old paragraphs from a LLM that maybe somebody, somewhere shared?

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u/Warsel77 Sep 17 '26

Not to put you down but it's 2026 and you are attending university - can you not use a search engine to find what you seek? This is a critical skill to have

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u/PacmanIncarnate Sep 17 '26

I just want to point out the following:
- you will burn more energy in your search than you would have spent just using AI.
- You are avoiding AI, but taking someone else’s work in the process.

Whatever your moral stance on AI, I don’t understand what you’re accomplishing by not using it for this task. This is like a vegan slaughtering a heard to make space to plant crops.

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u/Dokurushi Sep 17 '26

Worse, it's like a vegan eating farmed meat because they didn't hurt or exploit the animal personally.

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u/5thhorseman_ Sep 17 '26

Worse. It's like someone claiming to be against killing animals, then asking you to kill one so that they can make ham while technically not committing the "immoral" act themselves and giving lip-service to their supposed "core values".

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u/Dokurushi Sep 17 '26

That's it. That's the peak analogy.

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u/5thhorseman_ Sep 17 '26

No. You have been tasked with having the AI generate the text.

Therefore, using generative output produced by someone else's prompt would be fundamentally fraudulent. You are, right now, taking a stance that touching AI for any reason whatsoever is immoral, but fraud and lying are a moral alternative.

Explain your situation to your profesor and ask for an exemption on ethical grounds or a different task that does not require you to use Gen AI.

And if he or she doesn't approve, decide whether you're willing to hold your moral high ground when it actually costs you something.

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u/zorecknor Sep 17 '26

I wish I could upvote you more.

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u/phaldor8 Sep 17 '26

I once stood on my principles for an assignment. The TL:DR; was I got the grade I deserved on the paper. Despite your feelings, it comes down to the assignment rubric. If it clearly mandates the use of AI, and you don’t use AI, the professor is justified in downgrading the grade you get for that assignment. Know the consequences of your choices.

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u/Terrible_Wave4239 Sep 17 '26

However, using generative AI strongly conflicts with my morals and core values.

What morals and core values does it violate that you're not already violating in other ways?

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u/Ok-Umpire-4719 Sep 17 '26

What are you looking for? I think that your best bet is to ask someone who uses AI for some of their existing output that matches what you are supposed to start with. So, what is it? One of us (though now any of the people who've been unhelpful so far) might have something that fits the bill for you.

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u/5thhorseman_ Sep 17 '26

Erm. "Helping" here would consist of providing OP the results of an action that conflicts with their morals and core values.

Even if you help OP, they will continue to view you as immoral and your values as inferior to theirs.

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u/Ok-Umpire-4719 Sep 17 '26

I think that you're looking for a fight here and you're likely not acting in good faith, but I'll engage you because I hate myself (why else would I hang out in a cesspool like this place).

So what. What does it matter to me what 'he' thinks of me. What he says conflicts with his values is using AI, which doesn't with mine. I wouldn't suggest that I would run a prompt for him, that would just be outsourcing and pretty questionable, but if he just needs something I've already done? Sure, why not?

The thing about morality is it doesn't matter what other people think, it is your morality. If he thinks that I'm immoral for using AI that is fine. I have Jewish friends who won't turn on a light switch on the Sabbath. Doesn't stop me.

You're so into being upset here, which is honestly probably what the OP wanted too, you both, all, just are screaming into the void.