[jyl]

Why I won’t use AI to write: writing is personal, your voice reflects your tone, style, priorities, thought process, knowledge, influences, vocabulary, state of mind, everything that makes you . . . you. Anything that changes your writing dilutes and obscures the youness in you. Should there be flaws in your writing, they are flaws in you. If they are flaws like Cindy Crawford’s mole, then leave them be or celebrate them. If they are flaws like the cleft palate in a Sally Struthers advert, then fix yourself. AI, by covering over your youness and concealing your youflaws, lets you pretend you are someone not youself. If U would normally write the preceding sentence as Uness and Uflaw and U and Uself, why would you not do so? To be someone else? When I read posts by cliff and look171, Higgins and Shaun, I know who wrote them. Their posts would be poorer without them.

Exception being writing that is not meant to express the writer, but to conform with a particular style for, usually, work reasons. Technical writing, academic writing, maybe legal writing until you get disbarred. A message that needs to be in a foreign language not spoken by the writer.

I also wonder what it’s like to someday have to dash off some writing quickly without AI, and have everyone realize you’ve been faking it all along. Unless, I suppose, we are turning into the entertainment industry, where most people are wearing wigs and injected and photographed with huge diffuse lightpanels then skin AI’d to plastic, and everyone knows it but no-one cares, because the point isn’t to be beautiful but to be a generic caricature of formulaic beauty.