What Everyone Is Talking About: AI - To Use or Not To Use
A recent hot topic – on social media, on TV, on podcasts, and in my own conversations with friends: the use of AI. As a writer, I want to make my position clear: I do not use AI for any part of my writing or editing and never will. I do not feed even one sentence of my writing into AI. I do not ask AI to generate sentences or ideas for me. I think using AI in one’s writing and passing it off as your own is dishonest and unethical, and I will die on that hill. The conversations and comments online have been passionate, with people taking firm stands, either for or against. Of course, the common argument thrown out, by those in favour of using AI is a tired old one, often trotted out when it comes to technology: ‘use it or you’ll get left behind’. In discussions with several friends, I’ve learned that many use AI for all kinds of things: from medical questions to enhancing and aging photographs (just for fun) to planning a trip to designing a room, to chatting to a bot as if it...
