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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

I care because the widespread use of AI is BAD for ALL OF US you moron.[/quote]

Well my actual experience with AI is that it's just a more sophisticated and useful version of a search engine. Do you think widespread use of search engines is BAD for ALL OF US? Before AI, I used various search engines all the time for work (and still do). I knew that sometimes the results could be unreliable, and knew how to check sources and verify information. I continue to have these skills when I use an AI chatbot, but I appreciate the advantages of the chatbot over a traditional search engine.

What exactly is the problem with AI that makes it so much worse than search engines? Or, for that matter, a computer keyboard that allows me to write without my hand constantly cramping or having to use tons of paper to handwrite or write on a typewriter? Am I supposed to reject the internet as a concept? Without it, you couldn't come on here and call me a moron. Think what a loss that would be for us all.[/quote]

FYI, it's a more sophisticated and less useful version of a search engine.  AI is not a search engine, that's one of the biggest problems.  It's not a search engine and people have the idea that it is.  [/quote]

Do you use it? I have found it more useful than a search engine for many things. I understand the underlying technology is different, but often I use it in substantially the same way and get more useful results than I would through a search engine.

I was surprised by this usage and only started doing this recently, and it really opened my eyes to the benefits of using AI in a work setting. I recently used it to help me find a bunch of phone contacts for people who have the same title at a bunch of different organizations, and then had it put their names and numbers into a spreadsheet for me which I used as a call list. There were a few names and numbers that were incorrect, but accuracy was about 80%, and since the chatbot had pulled the info from the web anyway, I don't think a manual search would have given me better results. [/quote]

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