AI, at least what I've found so far, sucks. I don't intend to use it in my writing (at least apart from the occasional translation), but I do, however, copy/paste my writing into ChatGPT occasionally with the instructions for it to analyze the piece… often with comically bad results.
One time, it tried to continue an excerpt and, in doing so, dumbed Aleks down significantly and made him apologize (and not half-ass it, either). I lost some brain cells that day.
I will, however, concede that AI has some good uses… it makes a better translator than Google Translate, though you have to give it context, but it can't analyze text without being almost cynical about it, and it gets pretty creative about that. Still, I don't think that it can be faulted… AI can only have the worldviews its programmer lets it have. Until we get to the point where I can sit down to a program on my computer, tell it to write a story with my characters, and be able to convince myself that I wrote it, not the computer, I won't classify it as true AI.
To me, that stuff is still just a glorified Google Assistant: not useless, but extremely purpose-built.
Really, it has a long way to go in its development, but, given that the right people build it, I believe that it has a real place to go. Right now, sadly, it's just Google Assistant's cousin. Regardless of where it is or where it goes, I don't want my writing to lose that human touch and get "robotic", so don't worry about me publishing stuff that a computer wrote- not gonna happen.
Anyway, finishing up this short blog post, I'm bringing the draft to an end hopefully in the near future. My plan is to take a break from it for a week or two before coming back and proofing it. As usual, I will post a link when it's published!
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