"When someone dismisses work as “written with AI,” they’re missing the point. The question isn’t whether AI touched the text. The question is: whose ideas are these?" --> yes, and at the same time I am curious about AI assisting with the ideas? I think out loud a lot, and I have really enjoyed conversational AI to have something to endlessly bounce ideas off of - from the least formed to well formed. the back and forth helps me clarify ideas. probably not as well as if I talked to a human, but also I am not sure I could find a human who would listen to me this much. Like Ophir commented below -- AI allows us to DO things that maybe we just didn't have the time for before (like writing prolifically). of course the downside is just the VOLUME of it, and that a lot is trash because people are not going back and forth. maybe they are just using some generic prompt and posting that. but I think if an idea is solid enough, the writing is solid enough to get someone else to think and reflect -- that's good output. maybe not the best. but I care more about that end result than the process it took to get there. did you write it all down in a journal? type it out in Google Docs? chat with Claude? if you got my brain going, I don't really care how you got there.
"When someone dismisses work as “written with AI,” they’re missing the point. The question isn’t whether AI touched the text. The question is: whose ideas are these?" --> yes, and at the same time I am curious about AI assisting with the ideas? I think out loud a lot, and I have really enjoyed conversational AI to have something to endlessly bounce ideas off of - from the least formed to well formed. the back and forth helps me clarify ideas. probably not as well as if I talked to a human, but also I am not sure I could find a human who would listen to me this much. Like Ophir commented below -- AI allows us to DO things that maybe we just didn't have the time for before (like writing prolifically). of course the downside is just the VOLUME of it, and that a lot is trash because people are not going back and forth. maybe they are just using some generic prompt and posting that. but I think if an idea is solid enough, the writing is solid enough to get someone else to think and reflect -- that's good output. maybe not the best. but I care more about that end result than the process it took to get there. did you write it all down in a journal? type it out in Google Docs? chat with Claude? if you got my brain going, I don't really care how you got there.
For me this was the big takeaway and something I've been thinking about for a while.
The alternative isn’t “Bob writes everything by hand.”
The alternative is “most of Bob’s ideas never get written at all.”