How much do you use ai to write or as a work tool?

[Anonymous]

In my field (which is not cutting edge, more of an education/nonproft/culture space) I do a lot of writing, and I generally do it well (have edited and published articles and books ). Recently for some of my more rote things—let’s say reports that summarize research— I have written them quickly and then fed them into ai to tighten. It’s super intellectually lazy, doing the work I could do in my own but it’s much faster and frankly improves flow and specificity really well, esp if I give it the right prompts in an iterative process.

Is it dishonest? My work also goes through a human editor, this is first pass but I wonder if it’s wrong. We’ve not had these discussions in our workplace. Do you us ai as a tool? If so how? Is it accepted or talked about?

Sometimes I think it’s fine, because I’ve done the thinking research and most of the but other times I feel like I’m cheating.

[Anonymous]

All the time now. Writing heavy job in consulting. We run proposals, pitches, reports through AI. It's very good. Does in 30 seconds what would take me a few hours. I do worry about becoming intellectually lazy and wonder about keeping my brain sharp.

[Anonymous]

I use it all the time (my ceo has directed us to become an AI-first company). I call it my shitty intern because I constantly have to redirect it and correct its work. Never have I given it a task and had it come back with acceptable results on the first try.

[Anonymous]

Never

[Anonymous]

I use it for an email that might have taken me 30 mins to craft. For example, a member writes in wanting something we cannot do for them - I tell AI why we need to say no and ask them to write an empathetic response that still says no. Instead of me worrying if i am going to make member mad with my writing, I tweak what AI wrote and less than 5 minutes and I have the perfect response

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In my field (which is not cutting edge, more of an education/nonproft/culture space) I do a lot of writing, and I generally do it well (have edited and published articles and books ). Recently for some of my more rote things—let’s say reports that summarize research— I have written them quickly and then fed them into ai to tighten. It’s super intellectually lazy, doing the work I could do in my own but it’s much faster and frankly improves flow and specificity really well, esp if I give it the right prompts in an iterative process.

Is it dishonest? My work also goes through a human editor, this is first pass but I wonder if it’s wrong. We’ve not had these discussions in our workplace. Do you us ai as a tool? If so how? Is it accepted or talked about?

Sometimes I think it’s fine, because I’ve done the thinking research and most of the but other times I feel like I’m cheating.

It isn’t dishonest. We are explicitly being told to do this at work. Those who resist are going to be the first to lose their jobs. Those who embrace and master the technology will thrive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I use it for an email that might have taken me 30 mins to craft. For example, a member writes in wanting something we cannot do for them - I tell AI why we need to say no and ask them to write an empathetic response that still says no. Instead of me worrying if i am going to make member mad with my writing, I tweak what AI wrote and less than 5 minutes and I have the perfect response

Thing is, I can detect AI writing a mile away. If you sent me that instead of a personal response, I would quit your organization and stop being a member. I would be so incredibly offended.

I am worth the time it takes to give me a human response.

[Anonymous]

I don’t use it for writing, but I use it constantly to write spreadsheet formulas, make pivot tables and write code. It has made me 10x more productive with data.

I wish I could teach every small nonprofit and org to do this because I feel like there are a lot of them out there especially the ones using Google workspace where it could really be transformative.

[Anonymous]

I'm a high school English teacher at a private school, and my head of department and principal have told us all to stop "wasting hours writing little notes on the students' work" and use AI to provide feedback for them instead. It saves HOURS, but I hate it and I don't think it is very good. I have to do it because admin has now changed the maximum time in which we have to give feedback from two weeks to three days.

Did you know that you can now scan handwritten student work and have AI offer feedback?

We have two teachers in the department leaving, and they won't be replaced. I'm expecting bigger classes next year, and we have been told we will be required to do two after-school activities/coaching per week next year, rather than our current requirement of one per week. I guess now that AI does the grading, we're just warm bodies.

I hate hate hate my job now. If anybody has any ideas about what else I could do, I'd love to hear.

[Anonymous]

Daily.

[Anonymous]

I only use Grammerly for help with comma placement and when to use a semicolon v. a colon. I must have been absent when we were taught this.

[Anonymous]

Only for tough emails and even then I go in and change most of it. I also can tell when it’s AI.

[Anonymous]

Daily. I have small service business and AI is like having a solid unpaid executive assistant. Productivity and earnings have gone up sharply.

[Anonymous]

I don’t use it. I have played around with it and I can always tell it’s written by AI. It has also made up a bunch of things that didn’t exist.

[Anonymous]

Never. Writing comes very easily to me, and I also find that I am more likely to retain information that I write myself.