So… as a creative (writer, artist, singer) I despise generative AI, especially those that claim to be creative because of their “hard work”. Also, as someone who’s in the Academe, I cannot preface it enough that I find it incredibly mind-numbing to use generative AI for anything.
Well, let’s burn me at the stake for my hypocrisy!
I use ChatGPT mainly for academic stuff. This feels like me saving my face, because it is, but I usually use AI to ease my workload. I painstakingly use proper and precise wording to create teaching materials. I meticulously edit the crap out of them to make them “academics-worthy”. It’s hypocrisy, I know.
But the latest offense I’ve committed was to make ChatGPT listen to my lore. I’ve enabled safeguards, though. I disabled the setting where you “Improve for everyone”, making it so that whatever I give won’t be given to ChatGPT to use for others.
But even so, I think I’m screwed because of my hypocrisy. I have my boundaries, of course. I’ll still write my whole series without any AI generation—I find AI writing to be bland and sooooo uncreative. I just really used ChatGPT to dump lore in.
Did you want help to stop using it or something? There’s a difference between someone who is using gAI to spit out finished things, and someone using it as a tool/PA/whatever.
I’ve basically just used it to info dump. Everything I’ve given it has already been decided. I guess I wanted to talk lore to someone who can instantly respond. It didn’t add anything to my lore, just clarity to some things that weren’t obvious to me.
You talked about your story with chatgpt so what it was a conversation you can talk with a human, an animal, a bird or an AI so.
If you make someone else do your work which you are the one who should be doing and take all credit for it then it will be wrong regardless of whether you made a human do it or an artificial intelligence.
Which as per what you said you didn’t do right.
Even then ones who do use AI to create content and use it mostly provide credits.
The purpose of AI is also to make your work easier, less burdened.
And to provide perspective or opinion that is not necessarily influence by emotions.
As for studying it’s completely fine to study with AI better even because you can ask personalized questions that you don’t understand just make sure what you’re learning from AI is correct.
tldr; think of it as a conversation with an AI friend don’t think more.
Oh hey! I also use AI for my book stuff. I’m creative, and also an AI engineer. On my work side, I’ve developed AI tools, trained actual models using LoRA fine-tuning, and written one research paper. I use AI pretty often in my worldbuilidng. I’ve written really elaborate .txt files with my worldbuilding notes, characters, etc., and I use it to explore ideas like “flesh out this idea” or “how would my character react to X?” I’d say this is a proper use case. So if you’re using it like this, then it’s perfect, and keep doing what you’re doing.
But I will also admit that a lot of people use AI way too much, and for the wrong purposes. I think AI works really well as a second brain, as long as you ensure it’s your second brain – never your first. AI should accentuate your workflow, not replace it.
I really don’t like the idea of anyone—or anything—doing my work for me. AI just can’t capture my style. Even my grammatical mistakes and socio-linguistic quirks is part of that personal style, which I intend to retain beyond editing.
AI is just a great tool, and I hope people can find that great assistance. It’s just AI companies are really for that money, and they tend to not care for the creatives that feed their models. Also, the anti-hype of AI right now are setting anyone who goes near it on fire. It’s scary to be creative and tech-savvy in this era.
Yes! This is the very important part that I think a lot of people forget about. And yes, there’s a lot of slop out there (like Fruit Love Island) that didn’t need to be made lol. Too many people (especially younger but not always) seem to rely on AI too much to even make decisions for them, which isn’t good at all. As long as it compliments things, yes. And it’s not generating everything for you.
For the first, I’m not sure. I just like designing things. It started off as writing a book, and then suddenly I’m drawing a lot of animals and ships and maps, and then creating an analogue computer within my world, and writing a thousand years of history where one thing affects another.
For the second part, it’s a bit complicated. AI engineer nowadays can mean one of two things: people who use AI in their daily engineering workflow (that’s me), and people who work on the LLMs themselves (I want to do that, but I’m not there yet). I’m thinking of doing a Masters in ML one of these days, but it’ll take a while to get there. For now, I’m stuck to using Claude Code.
Yep, that’s basically what it is. I don’t want AI to replace me either, but I’d love AI to cross-question me, to point out plot holes, what works and what does not work, and so on. So it’s basically a beta reader.
All companies are like that. That’s just something we have to deal with, because of the society we live in.
And I frankly still don’t understand the anti-AI thingy. I get the gist of it, but the majority of responses feel overblown and religious. I have many thoughts about the anti-AI mob, and it’s not good.
I personally think there’s way too much slop as it is, human-made and AI-generated alike. Think of how many selfies the average person takes. Do you really mean to tell me people sit down one day and look through their camera roll for all the photos they took of their own faces? And same for TikTok or Instagram reels, which seems like a stream of people just showing their faces and speaking. A text post would have been so much more economical.
As for people using AI to make decisions, I do use AI like that as well, and I think that’s fine, as long as you don’t treat AI’s word as gospel. You also have to tell your AI everything – when I want ChatGPT to make a decision, I tell it all the things that affect the question. Sometimes when typing them out, I don’t even need to send the prompt, as I already have made the decision.
