Hard to believe that summer is slowly coming to an end, but the signs are here. Leaves are slowly starting to turn red, a sure sign that fall is getting closer every day. I can’t complain. Summer has been good to me, although the storms did take down a few trees. I’m hoping fall and winter will be good ones, too.
August 7 question – Do you use AI in your writing and if so how? Do you use it for your posts? Incorporate it into your stories? Use it for research? Audio?
If you had asked me this a year ago, I would’ve said no, never, but in the past few months, I’ve come to see and understand a different side of AI. Do I use it in my writing, apparently I do. I use spellcheck, find synonyms, look up information, and use the text to speech function to read to me since I find it easier to pick out errors if I both hear and see them. I’ve tried tthe speech to text side of it, but I’m not impressed. You might say that I think through my fingers and my mouth can’t keep up.
My cover artist has embraced the use of AI in her covers and the new ones are gorgeous. I had AI make me an illustration for a blog post last week because I couldn’t find what I wanted in my own pictures or those that are free to download, so I may use that function again.
But do I use it to actually write, to generate ideas, etc.? Abosolutely not. My content is 100% human thinking. The stories and characters I create in my mind are 100% my own. I give birth to them, nuture them, then let them have their heads and craft the stories they give me. Will I ever have to resort to AI for the actual writing? I hope not, because when I run out of ideas, it’ll be time to shut down the computer for the last time.
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AI is inevitable nowadays but when people use it to generate ideas, it’s indeed due time to shut down the computer. But I must say that I used to ask AI for prompts to write short stories just for practicing it. Short stories seemed tricky to me and AI helped my short story writing.
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Señorida Anastasia from spotforyoubyme.blogspot.com
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I think it’s great that you’ve found non-creative writing ways to use Al. It’s a helpful tool for some tasks.
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Never occurred to me thaty I could use ‘ AI’ to generate ideas.
IT husband has been known to describe his job as teaching computers. Suggesting an AI detox , he suspected I wouldn’t last a morning. Creating an abandoned fourteen year old, I couldn’t leave her with nothing – making Tim Berners Lee one of her heroes.
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Good morning, Esther. I think many of us have different definitions of what exactly is considered AI. For example, I don’t consider spellcheck AI as to check spelling (and I don’t use it), I normally use the dictionary; or pay my editor to find my errors. I don’t think she considers herself Artificial Intelligence. And, I don’t always trust AI features. Not sure I would sit in the driver’s seat of an AI car and push the ‘drive’ button, LOL. Blessings
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I’m like you, when I can’t find an appropriate picture I will use AI. Otherwise I use it to help me with SEO to enhance my title.
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I totally agree. If I can’t write it myself, what’s the point?
Ronel visiting for IWSG day Adventures in Audio: Building a Recording Studio
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