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Peter Rex's avatar

Disclose it or not.

I don't care much if it is written with help of AI, completely by AI or by a person.

What interests me is simple: Is it good? Researched?

I take everytime good AI writing over bad human writing.

I am not talking about that: One prompt, one novel AI writing.

I am talking about AI writing where the human is always at the wheel, rejects, refines.

Michael G Wagner's avatar

Thanks for the comment. I generally agree. However, I do acknowledge that some people have an interest in understanding the creative workflow. I think that is a reasonable request. And there really isn’t any reason to not disclose it.

Peter Rex's avatar

Maybe.

But do I have to know if Bukowski was drunk when he wrote this or that chapter?

Or Hemingway? Though his work was forged as much by himself as by his editor.

Does anybody disclose how much of “The old man and the sea” was his work or Perkin’s?

Another example: Alexandre Dumas and his writing manufacture. How much of “The three musketeers” was written by him?

Basically, you are right about the disclosure, but it is also a triage.

You might miss out something good just based on your believes or something you really have no clear opinion about.

Michael G Wagner's avatar

“This article was written under the influence” - wouldn’t that be something? 😂

Peter Rex's avatar

I’d love that.

Coffee would be on top of the list.

Followed by rosé and red wine.

With moderation of course.

Terra Knowledge's avatar

Grass is green,

sky is blue.

Clouds are white,

what else is new?

Colby Stout's avatar

Best part about this post, is if you use the AI checker, it says it is 100% written by a human. Wild.

Michael G Wagner's avatar

Very easy to achieve, especially for shorter articles. I would not recommend it though. Humanizers do mess up the meaning your text sometimes. I’d rather have good, coherent AI assisted writing tbh.