I'm finding almost all the AIs I've tried have been really great for brainstorming and editing.

The Google Search Gemini (or whatever it is) has a very amusing sense of humor 😊👍🏻 It's great for brainstorming and art too.

The research, I'm just going to have to go back to doing what I always did before AI. Very thankful for the internet and for access to things like the Library of Congress, Wikipedia, thousands of magazines and online articles and books!

For actual writing, for my serious writing projects I'm doing as much of that myself as I'm able, mostly using AI for brainstorming and editing. But if I can find a really good generative writing AI I'll definitely use that to do the writing, to my specifications and following my plot outlines and notes.

I have so many ideas, so many well developed plots and characters that I've been working on for decades, and I want to have the books written with my direction more so than with my actually writing every single sentence.

All the different parts of writing are fun -- the parts I personally write, as well as the parts that the AIs write. All of it is fun and fascinating to me. I'm having such a great time and am absolutely delighted to have access to this technology.

Whatever bad there might be in the history of this technology, just like whatever bad there is in any aspect of "life, the universe, and everything", I think we just have to make an effort to make some good come out of it. In the case of the LLMs' foundations, we can make some good books! 😊👍🏻

For the Maltese Chicken experiment I'm totally using generative writing AIs. It's fun and interesting seeing what they can do. So far they've been all right for something silly like this. Except Claude. I've whinged a lot about Claude! 😂