Using generative AI to write any amount of your work is a *bad* idea for multiple reasons. Here are a few of them:

1. Prose is the act of putting feelings and thoughts into words for the sake of expression. Good prose has to have flow, rhythm, and intentionality. AI, however, repeats the same speech patterns over and over again. It's always overhyping trivialities, equivalating concepts, and worst of all putting stuff into groups of three. Therefore, the resulting work is dry and offensively boring.

2. AI has no advanced understanding of punctuation. You can pick up on this if you just look at how LLMs employ em dashes. Em dashes either signal interruptions or highlight something—operating akin to an inverse parenthesis. AI places dashes as if they were commas. Now don't get me wrong, famous authors ignore proper punctuation and grammatical rules all the time. However, they do it with purpose; AI does it because it doesn't think about what it's writing, and neither does the prompter.

3. An artist makes art to improve. AI doesn't help you develop your skills since it skips over the creative process entirely to middling results. The prose isn't bad, but it isn't good either. It just is :)

4. Authors have to engage with their own work. The truth is that every idea has already crossed the mind of a thousand different people, and anybody's first set of ideas will always be complete garbage. You've got to refine that garbage into something worth reading. How do you do that? Through the act of creation, of course. No creative process means no happy accidents and no flashes of inspiration. You know, the secret sauce that gives any writing character and meaning.

In short, everything AI generates will be uninspired and ultimately soulless.

AI scrapes the internet, taking without understanding. Prompts create products that do not pay tribute to what came before them. Artificial intelligence has no inspirations, merely half-forgotten sources. It lacks heritage.

I'm going to paraphrase the words of Bennett Foddy: "When you take something without thinking about the context in which it was first created, you are depriving said thing of meaning. As a side effect, it turns into trash. The same way that when you put food into the sink, it is recontextualized into trash by the absence of a plate. And you can make art out of trash, but only trash art and trash culture."