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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I use AI to write all the time, but I don't have AI do the writing. Because it will do it wrong.

But I use the AI bot embedded in Word to ask questions, get ideas, find synonyms, even think through a problem I'm having. I use it like a combination of a more convenient/efficient search engine and a coworker who will let me bounce ideas of them when I need to.

It has made me a more productive writer because when I'm working on something and hit a wall, instead of leaving my document and doing something else (including time wasters like looking at social media or playing a game on my phone, the stuff I used to do for procrastination) I just ask the AI chatbot how to push through. Like literally a fifth of my queries to the chatbot are stuff like "ugh I don't feel like finishing this section, how can I make myself do it?" And it will actually give me useful ways to do it. It's not groundbreaking stuff -- it will be like "some people find it useful to break up a piece of writing into smaller sections as a way to make it seem more manageable -- can you split the section up into sub-sections or paragraphs and just take them one by one?" Sure, that's something I should and can come up with on my own. But it's more effective when it comes from someone else!

I could never turn in work that I literally submitted AI to write. I'd feel ashamed. Also, I'm a control freak about my writing and I'd wind up going through and editing it and probably changing the whole thing. But as a tool to help me get my work done? Hell yes, I love it. [/quote]

So AI is just a replacement for you accessing the extremely simple concepts you (should have) learned in middle school?  You readily admit that you aren’t familiar with the concept of writer’s block or taking breaks? My kindergartener already knows about brain breaks.

Every example the folks in this thread give of the “power” of AI is just another data point proving the theory that it is a silky tool used exclusively by lazy idiots.[/quote]

You have reading comprehension problems. Here, I'll excerpt the part you skipped right over without comprehending:"It's not groundbreaking stuff -- it will be like "some people find it useful to break up a piece of writing into smaller sections as a way to make it seem more manageable -- can you split the section up into sub-sections or paragraphs and just take them one by one?" Sure, that's something I should and can come up with on my own. But it's more effective when it comes from someone else!"

Yes, obviously I know about "brain breaks" and writer's block. I'm also a professional writer who writes somewhere in the ballpark of 5-15k words a week, and often edits twice that. Some days are harder than others, and I have to have a broad variety of tools for breaking writer's block because I don't want to fall behind. I've found that AI can be a useful tool with that. I also have a really good office, listen to very specific music when I write, schedule meals and beverages to facilitate my writing, use workouts as motivators and body breaks, etc. My job is hard and not many people can do it. AI definitely can't do it. But it is a useful tool in helping me do it, so I use it.

Why do you care?[/quote]

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