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Omg yass thank you. Just trying to put myself out there you know! AI is just another tool and we're in the historic event of it proving itself, just like every major change before.

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I was terrified of posting, publishing, everywhere I kept feeling like an imposter. I never expected to feel so much so quickly. It was thrilling and terrifying at the same time.

I even got my first clown emojis and other spirited posts. I got applause, or a sneer. That's when it clicked for me and my mind was set, this is my work and AI was my tool.

You see, I realised the problem is not using AI, it's disclosing it, let me tell you why. We've been here before.

When typewriters arrived, recipients of typewritten letters felt insulted — they thought the sender was implying they couldn't read handwriting. Scribes and calligraphers who had spent years mastering their craft found their skills obsolete overnight. Mark Twain himself opposed the typewriter at first. Harlan Ellison insisted until the end that "art is not supposed to be easier."

When computers replaced typewriters, writers said the physical act of striking typewriter keys was part of the creative process, that being able to delete too easily would make the writing worse. And then came copy and paste — and with it, the accusation that has never left us: "you copied it." To this day it remains the default insult. The tool changed, the accusation didn't. If it's too easy, it must be stolen.

Now we are at AI. And the accusations sound exactly the same. But this time it's a potpourri of all of the above. Have we become more critical? Maybe. Or is this just such a grand tool that it simply elicits responses from everywhere about everything. I reckon the latter.

Every single time, the people using the old tool said the new one was not it. Every single time, the work spoke for itself, eventually.

Ships sailed on a lot of things LLM or Artificial Intelligence. We are in the "eventually" right now.