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That’s actually incredibly sad.
This is why so much writing these days is absolute shit.
The End.
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Searching my notes for the one damn thing I need to finish writing this chapter.
My Writing Brain when I'm posting on tumblr instead of working on my novel.
Fuck NaNoWriMo.
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AI isn't writing. It's theft. It can't even be compared to writing.
People using AI aren't drawing on their own imaginations. They're operating a tool that extracts from the imaginations of others.
People who claim they wrote a complete novel in the month of November by using AI are posers, frauds, and thieves. They're deluding themselves that they have talent.
If NaNoWriMo really cared about helping people become good writers, they'd speak out directly against using AI.
itsawritblr reblogged
Must read. Here' s a snippet to motivate you :
For the still-not-convinced: If you need an AI to come up with ideas for you, you don’t even belong in the fucking room, because ‘coming up with ideas’ is literally the most basic level skill to have. A basketball player who can’t dribble doesn’t belong in the NBA, so why the fuck do you think you deserve a spot on my writing team if you need a computer to do what any goddamn fucking eight year old can do? Take the fucking hint, you fucking fraud: if you need AI to do the most basic tasks required of you as a writer, then you aren’t employable as a writer. Period. Fuck you. You’re a waste of everyone’s time.
I couldn't put it better.
I worked fucking hard, over years, to become a professional writer. I'm a high-school dropout, but I read and studied and wrote and wrote, and was rejected and rejected, and studied everything I could in order to improve, and read everything under the sun, fiction, nonfiction, magazines, newspapers, goddamn cookbooks, you name it. I watched movies and plays to learn more about characters and plots. I read poetry, from ancient to modern.
And eventually someone published me. Then another person did. Then another. Even so, I keep learning how to improve.
And little shits with no imagination, with no original ideas, use a soulless computer that digests the work of people with actual imaginations, then shits it out and pretends it's as good as what real writers create.
I know how to prove them for the frauds they are. All it takes is putting a writer like me in a room with one of these fakes. No computers, no phones, no electricity. We both of us get a legal notepad and a pen. Nothing else.
We're give a random topic. It can be anything. And we're allowed a half hour to write about that topic.
I guarantee at the end of that half hour the work of the real writer will be 10 times better than that of the A1 asshole.
Unfortunately, the problem I see coming in the future is editors who know what good, authentic writing is will retire. They'll be replaced with younger people who think A1 is great, and who have no fucking idea what good writing is. So they'll read submissions written by A1 and not only be unable to recognize that it's shit, but they'll think it's worth publishing.
And that's very close to how Ray Bradbury described the fall of culture and intelligence in Fahrenheit 451. A novel which has ceased being science fiction and is now a goddamn documentary.
I've already seen this happen with some publications. Some picture book publishers are open to publishing novels illustrated with A1. Maurice Sendak, Beatrix Potter, Eric Carle, and Dr. Seuss are fucking spinning in their graves. I'm a professional illustrator, and to think a publisher might choose someone using a robot to illustrate a book instead of me makes me grind my teeth.
From my other blog.
Me to my Writing Brain when I have a deadline:
My Writing Brain:
My murder mystery characters thinking none of them are gonna die.
Thinking you're a sophisticated Writer.
The reality.