Writing forums are so dense. Someone shows concern about people using ChatGPT to write entire manuscripts and these people are like “well grammarly is AI too. Where do we draw the line?” You’re being intentionally obtuse. There’s a huge difference between using something to write your entire story and using aids. Then they revert to “Then ghost writing isn’t real writing” and honestly? I have weird feelings about ghost writing, but you’re still engaging with a human being. You are a human communicating with another human to create something you might not be otherwise able to create. I suppose you could liken ghost writing to commissioning artwork. At some point you stop attributing the artist and the work becomes yours because it was your idea that they executed.

Yes ai writing isn’t great right now, but have you seen how far ai art has come? (I got 5 finger hands the other day watch out y’all) It will get better. The more it’s used and exposed to content, it will improve. There may always be something off about it, but if you think in five years the average reader will be able to tell the difference, I have a plot of land to sell you.

Am I worried? No. Should I be? Dunno. I know I’m not happy about ai replacing art before simplifying work. It was supposed to make life easier not replace our creativity. And maybe it never fully will, but the market is already inundated with swill. Ai will only make it harder for actual writers to stand out. You could have the story of the century and it’ll get buried. Happens today and it’ll just get worse with normalized ai usage.

Anyway I could say more on this and I probably will in the future but that’s it for today’s soap box.

Have Jeron and Sylus being idiots in a snippet from “The Arboreal Land Octopus”, today’s Pride entry: