I meant to say, My wife used AI for business writing. I don’t think she’d like me calling it busy writing. Maybe I should use AI before replying to posts.

I like AI for organizing my thoughts. I can mind dump everything then the AI helps me sort the chaos.

I see your Facebook shares and posts so I knew you were busy with your AI post-grad courses and not held hostage in a far off land. My wife used AI for busy writing and was pleased with the results after feeding in pertinent data she wanted included. I use a program that offers suggested rewrites for awkward sentences. On rare occasions I try it, the rewrite suggestion is just as awkward, in my opinion, as the crap I just wrote. I hate to say, “my voice”, too many writers say, “I don’t want to lose my voice,” as a reason for not improving their prose, but I estimate up 80% of the AI generated rewrites sounds different from the narrative voice. I admit it might be my imagination and someone reading a few pages might not detect the AI sentences, even if used every two or three paragraphs.

So lovely to see you! Apologies for being away. I have been in an accelerated post-grad program for AI and Machine Learning since February. Almost finished with it. Eager to have some fresh perspectives of how AI and writers can see any kind of future together.

I agree on the “flatness” of AI writing. I don’t know if eventually they can be trained to “sound” better because it is still mimicking feeling human instead of actually being human. I have missed you guys a LOT. Really appreciate seeing you here.

LOL, good taste! Spawn watches Critical Drinker! Thanks for the comment (((HUGS)))

Very thoughtful response, and I agree. I haven’t blogged in several months because I have been doing post grad work in AI/ML. Why? Because it impacts the world, writers, publishing, everything around me and I want to understand what we are dealing with. I do worry that we are already losing so many critical skills (spelling, grammar, basic math, basic research) and AI will only make that worse. Interesting times for sure.