OP is. It’s not clear that the author she blocked is. “Using AI” doesn’t mean “having AI write for you”. Plenty of authors just use it as a research aide or a sounding board. Plus, it’s a great way to learn which phrases to never use again.
I’m writing something for for the first time doing exactly these things. It hasn’t written one word for me, but it has suggested to me what words could maybe be better words if I can think of those words. (Editing advice, preliminary only, nothing meant to be final)
I really don’t understand why they don’t market it for these things instead of just writing for you.
The reason they don’t market it that way is because the market they’re trying to convince are the people that want to replace workers, and pretend this is the next industrial age that puts humans out of work. They want you to think it does all your writing for you, not that it assists you here and there.
That’s what makes people invest the hardest, and it’s the biggest lie they can sell for the most money. If you don’t adopt AI, you’ll be like a horse and carriage competing with trains! That’s why every dumbass business owner is shoving AI down your throat. They believe there’s a risk that you’ll implode if you don’t adopt it early. You’ll stop being competitive.
They ignore the obvious wins we’ve taken advantage of, where people are like, “huh okay this might give me good advice sometimes if I take it with a grain of salt”, and “actually it helped me storyboard my idea and find flaws before I even started writing”, and “it actually helped me understand the history of the Ottoman empire and why they were like that, and that history can be reflected accurately in my novel now”.
These are the rational use cases which people are discovering it’s pretty helpful. But those rational use cases don’t prove that it will replace the workers, so it’s not sold as a tool. It’s being sold as an eventual replacement for the working class. Businesses would be a hell of a lot more skeptical about spending $50k on Claude if they knew it didn’t eventually mean laying off $500k in payroll. If it just means their workers are a little more efficient… Well fuck that, that doesn’t save money.
It’s going to take some time for shit to get normal. Investors will eventually learn they’re losing money. Once they bubble bursts, eventually people will learn when it’s useful and it’ll be a bit more niche.
Appreciate it. Also in fairness, I’ve definitely run into published books written by supposed specialists that are obviously 200 pages of AI prose (probably based on a 10 page essay).
OP is. It’s not clear that the author she blocked is. “Using AI” doesn’t mean “having AI write for you”. Plenty of authors just use it as a research aide or a sounding board. Plus, it’s a great way to learn which phrases to never use again.
I’ve upvoted for having the bravery to speak the true possibilities in here, but I would say the odds are kinda strongly against what you suggest.
I’m writing something for for the first time doing exactly these things. It hasn’t written one word for me, but it has suggested to me what words could maybe be better words if I can think of those words. (Editing advice, preliminary only, nothing meant to be final)
I really don’t understand why they don’t market it for these things instead of just writing for you.
The reason they don’t market it that way is because the market they’re trying to convince are the people that want to replace workers, and pretend this is the next industrial age that puts humans out of work. They want you to think it does all your writing for you, not that it assists you here and there.
That’s what makes people invest the hardest, and it’s the biggest lie they can sell for the most money. If you don’t adopt AI, you’ll be like a horse and carriage competing with trains! That’s why every dumbass business owner is shoving AI down your throat. They believe there’s a risk that you’ll implode if you don’t adopt it early. You’ll stop being competitive.
They ignore the obvious wins we’ve taken advantage of, where people are like, “huh okay this might give me good advice sometimes if I take it with a grain of salt”, and “actually it helped me storyboard my idea and find flaws before I even started writing”, and “it actually helped me understand the history of the Ottoman empire and why they were like that, and that history can be reflected accurately in my novel now”.
These are the rational use cases which people are discovering it’s pretty helpful. But those rational use cases don’t prove that it will replace the workers, so it’s not sold as a tool. It’s being sold as an eventual replacement for the working class. Businesses would be a hell of a lot more skeptical about spending $50k on Claude if they knew it didn’t eventually mean laying off $500k in payroll. If it just means their workers are a little more efficient… Well fuck that, that doesn’t save money.
It’s going to take some time for shit to get normal. Investors will eventually learn they’re losing money. Once they bubble bursts, eventually people will learn when it’s useful and it’ll be a bit more niche.
You could achieve the same thing with a thesaurus without burning the planet to a crisp.
Appreciate it. Also in fairness, I’ve definitely run into published books written by supposed specialists that are obviously 200 pages of AI prose (probably based on a 10 page essay).