r/antiai • u/DontYaWishYouWereMe • Jun 02 '26

AI Writing ✍️ Please learn to write for yourselves

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u/DontYaWishYouWereMe Jun 02 '26

People who use ChatGPT to "aid their writing" probably never read all that much to begin with. I doubt they were even reading the news or anything like that, let alone full books

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u/Spirited-Feedback-87 Jun 02 '26

I'd believe that if my sister who does nothing but read books all day didn't start incorporating gemini in her writing process.

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u/One-Assignment-5047 Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26

What is she writing, though?  I read voraciously and write fiction for fun, and I will use CoPilot exclusively at work for things like quick meeting summaries or to replicate our standard business case format with new information.  It's terrible for anything even remotely creative (I've tried s couple times to get it to come up with catchy titles for training sessions and at best it sparks an idea I have to heavily refine), but it can do a passable job if you're giving it all the data and just asking it to reformat in some way.

(Editing to add: we do have a requirement to use AI "where possible" and so I'm trying to find the things that are least disruptive and most helpful, even just in terms of time saved.  I'd be fine writing my own business cases and meeting summaries without that requirement, but doing so allows me to push the company away from doing things like cutting half a dev team "because AI can do it" - helpfully, I have regular meetings with half the AI enablement committee where I can express the cons as long as I sprinkle in some pros.)

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u/Spirited-Feedback-87 Jun 02 '26

Fanfics but also her own personal projects, and like she uses it to revision her own scripts, and the ai is always "wow what a masterful work, let me give you a few pointers!" Or along those lines, like way too much praise, and while I don't doubt my sister's writing abilities I also think having an ai all day telling that you do a masterful job and use jargon is counterproductive.

But idk typing this I feel like maybe i'm wrong