#they aren't perfect or theft or the solution to eveey problem

[rhoselacksthorns]

Ight think there are two sides to the AI argument (actually it's one side, but people like to claim they oppose eachother because grey is scary to them):

-using generative AI to try and cover for not being able to make a damn story seriously at a point that stops even being your fucking story, even claiming it's your story is like claiming that paying builders to build a house is the same as building it yourself, if you need to get a generative AI to write then you can't write you can just click a couple buttons. and leave that "prompt engineering" crap at the door I'm doing a fucking degree in AI and your just fucking lying to make yourself feel like you put effort in. It isn't like using a calculator to do maths (something that still requires lots of base knowledge of the subject and as you go further with the subject using calculators get less and less common as it moves beyond just plugging numbers into an equation), it's like using an app where you point you phone at the question and it gives you the answer, it doesn't even bother showing it's working, you just hope it's right. AI is not evil or wrong, using a generative AI is not "theft" or just mulching together other people's work, that's not how the algorithms work, believe me if it was we would have made them 50yrs ago, but getting generative AIs to do work is not working, it is as much your writing as a commission you bought was your art, it was made by someone or something else, not you

-the one place I can see a potential place for generative AI in writing is doing "am I an idiot" checks without bothering real people, ya' know just asking one too throw out a few suggestions for how to fix a problem or plug a hole you can't quite get your head around and you just know there's an easy solution but you can't work out what, or getting that word you just can't quite get a grasp on. ya' know stuff that's not really that important to the story or anything and where you'd normally check with a friend or steadily creep into insanity trying to figure it out, not that it's a complete replacement for either of those, just a third option for when friends aren't available and you need to look presentable to an outside observer. ya' know, treat them the same way you'd treat a friend or a sketchy website, it'd be insane to just directly rip their stuff, but it's ok to go to them for sanity checks and untying knots you've got yourself into, just remember they can get things wrong, just like anyone else

You will not use AI to get ideas for your story. You will lie on the floor and have wretched visions like god intended