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September 3 question - What are your thoughts on using AI, such as GPChat, Raptor, and others with your writing? Would you use it for research, storybible, or creating outlines\beats?
Perfect question for me this month! Call me old fashioned or maybe just plain old, but I'm a sceptic of AI. I have never intentionally used it, until this last week.
I grew up watching all the Terminator movies with my dad and brothers and there is just something uncomfortable about the idea of AI in general and especially projects like Meta's Super Intelligence Lab, which Mark Zuckerberg says will surpass human intelligence in all aspects. I'm not really certain that is what we want. Is it?
That old quote from Jurassic Park, sums up how I feel about AI,"Your scientists were so pre-occupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."
But this week my daughter who is also a writer and blogger told me, "Hey mom, you should really give your blog a new look, you haven't updated it since 2015."
I knew she was right. I had been wanting to give it a makeover for a while, but I didn't know how. Then she suggested I use ChatGPT to help. Of course, I needed help from her to even use it. But within twenty minutes, my blog had a whole new, more professional look.
I had to admit I was impressed.
I'm still not inclined to use AI to actually write for me, I enjoy the process of writing too much. It is a type of meditation for me. Pouring my thoughts onto a page, refills my cup and heals my soul. That is why I write. Having a computer write for me seems empty.
Art is special, I think, because it comes from the heart and soul, from a human who has experienced ups and downs, tragedies and love, and everything in between. The artist then transcends time and space and allows us to feel too.
I especially love seeing live performances of music, concerts, orchestras, musicals, plays etc. Not only do you get to be immersed in the work of the creator of the piece you get to experience the way each actor or singer interprets the story as well and share that experience with everyone else in the theater. I don't think AI could give us an experience like that.
But now I see maybe there are instances where it can be helpful and not take away from the art itself. I did use AI to make fake picture of me.
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| Only sorta looks like me |
I don't think I would want to use it for research...maybe to just do a preliminary search of a subject. But I enjoy stumbling upon research in a sometimes haphazard way, discovering something accidentally. I might be more open to trying AI for preliminary research and possibly some other small tasks, that I don't know how to do--though I'll probably have to wait for my daughter to be around to help me use it.😂😂
There is a wonderful opinion piece published in the New York Times a few weeks ago, written by a creative writing professor about the use of AI in writing check, it out if you have time.
What are your thoughts on AI? Should we all start doing our chin-ups Sarah Conner style so we can fight off the Terminator? Or am I way over thinking the power of AI?
Haha! I use AI. A lot, actually, but it's never the SOURCE of creativity or emotion, just a tool for reaching already established goals and objectives. Like any tool, it can be abused. Like any tool, it can be distracting. And it's up to us to regulate how much it infiltrates our lives. It will never develop a consciousness -- that's up to us.
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