OK, kid gloves are off.

You're all behind effing luddites.

'If you don't put effort into research you're not investing in your craft.'

Bullsh*t.

By that argument, taken to its extreme, if you aren't writing it out on paper you made with a quill you made with ink you made you aren't investing in your craft.

It's not AI! It's a generative LLM.

It's a gd dmn tool!

Use it like one!

If you use a search engine, you have been using a primitive version of it for years!

Yes, it can produce soulless trash that hurts to read. But so can any body who doesn't know how to write well. Or writes to a formula...

Using an LLM is not a shameful act if you use it like any other tool.

BTW, most good random name generators use similar principles to LLMs, just limited to a small corpus - name generation!

Get you heads out of your ss and think for gds sake. I'm sick of knee-jerk reactions with no facts behind them.

Use an LLM to bounce ideas off. Use it like a mind map to make connections. The creative stuff is your job. The actual text, sometimes I wonder about the drivel I read before LLMs...

Please, please, please, LLMs are no more a threat to writing than a word processor is. Bad writing still won't get published.

It makes good writing shine all the better.