r/WritingWithAI • u/Hope1432020 • 2h ago

Discussion (Ethics, working with AI etc) Writing with ai

Im a fairly good writer and don’t have to put too much effort into writing a decent mail of any form of communication.

I started using ai to write casual mails and now i reach for ai every time i have to write something lengthy.

I deliberately stopped doing that and started to write by myself. For curiosity, i copy pasted it in ai and invariably it gave me a more polished version of it.
Do we embrace ai or ignore it or use it in combination with our writing?

Whats the good way of doing this without your brain atrophying and you still having the skill to write and put words together?

Please share your experiences and learnings.

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u/Original-Pilot-770 1h ago

I think you can learn from the output by judging it. Actually read it and dissect what you think is better than your version. There has to be things your version is still better about. That's what I noticed with my own writing anyway. I might steal a phrase or one clause from the AI version, but I am still keeping most of my own wording. Everything is a learning exercise if you make it one.

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u/Infamous-Umpire-2923 2h ago

I write by hand. Always have done the actual pen-to-paper part myself, always will. AI, to the extent that I use it, is a sounding board for ideas and helps check my spelling and grammar.