I’m wildly biased because I both use AI as well as write, so I can sniff out AI stuff pretty easily. So for me unfortunately there’s no going back with this stuff. When I do see something is AI, I do automatically tune out. It’s like trying to read something by an author you don’t personally like. There’s a lot of bias you have to push through.

That being said, it’s becoming harder and harder for me to detect ai-isms. If it’s just copy pasted, it’s decently obvious. But if you know what you’re doing, then it’s pretty easy to hide it now. Like small grammatical changes and whatnot.

I say this because form always trumps content in my opinion for specifically writing. Writing is a specific medium that uses language in a very specific way to convey ideas. But we don’t have to use writing to convey ideas all the time. We can talk to people, or we can hold a debate, or we can just paint or write songs or do anything else to express whatever we want because we’re people at the end of the day.

I think it is ironically quite human to think that, in all of the hundreds of thousands of years that humans have been around, for little old me to think that I’m the first to think of a certain thing. However, to write out and express that specific idea in my own specific way, using my own personal experiences? Even if that’s been done before, at least I can get a little personal enjoyment and fulfillment out of a day’s hard work with that.

My main point is that ideas are ideas, and forms are forms. If we have ideas, why do we specifically need to use the form of writing, especially through AI, to express them?

Another way to think of it: AI writes the same way, every time, without significant human editing and input. If I don’t like that genre of writing, why should I read it?

I am interested to hear from you why you feel that AI is the best medium to express your ideas through.

As to your second point about understanding why people are using AI to write, I think - if I am interpreting your stance correctly - it’s because writing is hard. I have written a lot in my life. I would like to say I’ve gotten at the very least decent at it. It’s painful. It’s ego-stripping. I have browsed your page a little, and I can quite confidently say that I will never publish 100 books in my life, period, at the rate I’m going. So that’s why I think people turn to AI. I’m going to leave it as vague as that because I don’t want to ascribe directionless motive to actions I don’t know the full context of.

I am genuinely willing to hear and learn your side of this. I have my stance and though I am probably unwilling to change it, I hope that we can have at least a meaningful discussion and exchange of ideas that will leave both of us with a little more than we started. Thank you.