#'let alone take up their craven tools' came to me in a moment of autistic wordiness lmao

[lady-wildflower]

"Don't you want to skip over the mindless drudgery that is making art?"

This is what gives me an utter contempt for AI "writing" and those who... make isn't the word, prompt it. Same goes for AI generated "art," but I'm not much of a visual artist. The process isn't mindless drudgery, it's the point. To keep to writing because I do way more of it, there is absolutely no part of the process I'd ever give away to a machine. Every part of it is discovery, learning, choices, none of which a generative algorithm can do! I cannot overstate the glee I get out of making tiny word choices that foreshadow things, or say something about a character.

Also, the process is integral to it actually being a story in the first place. If I gave a machine all the characters and told it to write a story, it'd be utter drivel with no thought given to arcs, no thought given to themes, no thought given to the future, because a generative algorithm isn't capable of it. It's not a story; it's a word spaghetti whipped up to look like a story, because that's all the AI knows - what a story looks like. It has no understanding of what's under the hood. I have novels worth of planning for my epic-length main project, an 'AI' is not remotely capable of that work, and it is that work that makes my story a story at all, and a story I can be proud of showing. Knowing someone used 'AI' to generate their story makes me think less of the story and think less of them, because they obviously didn't care about the story enough to make sure it was actually told properly. It's an insult to me that they think I should even want to read that, let alone take up their craven tools.

The quote in the retweeted tweet on iamwhatismissing's reblog is the mindset of a content creator who thinks what matters is that something gets uploaded and gets ad views, so who gives a shit about the actual thing that gets uploaded? But the entire reason I write is to give a shit about the thing I show people. To tell a story I wrote. If it's not my story, if it's been dismembered from a prompt and reconstituted in its worst, most worthless, form by a machine, what fucking point is there in me pretending it's worth telling in that form? I don't write for clout, and these clods suggesting that them acting as the human interface between the grimy sewer output of a shitty AI and a content platform is in any way equivalent to me writing is a fucking insult to everything I hold dear.