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Zechariah L. Blackwell's avatar

Thank you for the note about disabled people. I have a neurological movement disorder, which as you can imagine, makes writing hard. I can't read my handwriting, and have twitches in my lounge that prevent speech to text all the time. And typing hurts when done too much.

I don't like to use ai when I'm drafting at, but all the notes and work before writing? All the editing notes I want to make but find hard to put on paper? AI is easy to work with as a brainstormer, summarizer, or even editing tool if it's trained right.

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Dominic de Souza's avatar

Thanks for chiming in! I'm glad this post was helpful :)

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Clayton Ramsey's avatar

Thanks for the nuance. A lot of anti-AI discourse is in the form of memetic text or recycled talking points (slop, stolen, soulless).

Which is obviously and bitterly ironic.

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Dominic de Souza's avatar

I think so too.

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Celeben Arinya's avatar

Thank you for clarification and nuance! Just in general.

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Celeben Arinya's avatar

I meant about not using AI to write or draw for you. Don't do that. At first when you published stuff about AI, it sounded dangerously close to saying make art without making art, if you know what I mean. I am glad you are not saying that lol

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Dominic de Souza's avatar

If you're someone like me, who will probably never become a full on painting artist, and may never be able to afford one, then AI is a viable option. If you are a business with good finances, then hiring real artists will always be a better bet. If you're an artist, explore and understand these tools to see how they can help you. But yeah, don't run a prompt and then say " I'm an artist." If you run a prompt like Artgerm, and then edit and kitbash... you might get closer to artistry, but even then, don't try to demand equal billing as Artgerm himself.

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Celeben Arinya's avatar

Yes! Thank you.

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Derek James Kritzberg's avatar

Excellent essay. Loved its detail and organization.

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Dominic de Souza's avatar

glad it was helpful!

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Graeme McAllister's avatar

Sorry you like all your predecessors have fallen down on the copyright point. Again. Images and text have been illegally harvested and are being illegally cut up, pasted together, and redistributed.

And before you roll out the oh so worn chant of "ludite ludite ludite". Im a software developer and database expert.

I'm not against the many legitimate uses of AI but so called "generative" (they misspelled plagiaristic) is far from legitimate.

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Dominic de Souza's avatar

Maybe.

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Dominic de Souza's avatar

maybe. maybe not.

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Jon Howski's avatar

Why is that a fact? How can any future prediction by its very definition be a fact? Are you a babbling drone that needs some assistance? Would you like someone to help pass the toilet paper? What is it you’re actually scared of Brian?

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Brian Lamacraft's avatar

Don't listen to me. Just keep using AI. Why don't you talk to the millions who will lose jobs to this technology? Maybe that's a better option. Please have a nice day.

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Dominic de Souza's avatar

Maybe.

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