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Music Notes #1096428 added September 2, 2025 at 8:19pm
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My Thoughts on AI Generated Writing
Petra's prompt 2: The difference with last year's celebrations is the implementation of Artificial Intelligence.
Al/ChatGPT: A pest or a blessing for writers? Give us your thoughts.
The rise of AI chat tools is like the pandemic: it has affected everyone, whether we are aware of it or not. Our Google searches now summarize information and feed it to us via an AI “explainer,” and we have to dig deeper to uncover the sources and accuracy of what it's found. When we open a PDF file in Adobe, the first thing it asks us is if we would like an AI summary of the contents. And of course, content creation is now nearly instantaneous: type a prompt into ChatGPT, Google Gemini, or a dozen others, and they will provide us with anything from a brief bedtime story to a PhD level thesis, all supposedly unique and tailored to our request.
This is not even considering the strange and unnerving things that can happen when humans attempt to have conversations with AI. For the purposes of this blog post, I will focus on my thoughts and opinions about written AI content creation, rather than the issues of interacting personally with chatbots or image/video/voice/music generation.
First and foremost, I reiterate my promise to never post AI generated text as my own. I may be pressed against deadlines, or at a loss for ideas, or lacking energy or enthusiasm, but I would rather scribble down an extremely lame piece of my own work than to present some soulless piece I did not actually write by my own labor. I don't have conversations with AI, either. Once, I asked ChatGPT for help when I had a pile of disorganized ideas for a detective story, but I didn't use any of what it offered me, and I still feel silly for doing that.
Over the years, I've come to accept AI as something we're stuck with. We can choose to use it in different ways: we can ask it for advice, we can tell it to “review” our work, it can help us brainstorm ideas, we can prepare an outline to follow to organize our thoughts, or we can use it to straight-up write stuff for us. There is nothing inherently wrong with any of this: it is merely a new way to gather, sort and present information.
What is wrong is when the created content is falsely presented as being something one wrote without assistance. This is cheating, whether one uses it to get an A in college or to win first place at an Official WdC Contest. Even if one never “uses” AI generated content to gain an advantage (financial or otherwise,) it is still dishonest to share it without proper labeling and disclaimers. This causes one to distrust the written word, to question everything one reads. It puts a damper on sincere interaction between writers when one does not know if the other's words are truly their own.
Sometimes, there are well-meaning reasons why someone uses AI chatbots to help them write. There may be a language barrier, and they need AI to translate their work. Or there might be a disability of some kind, and AI helps them gather their thoughts and arrange them coherently, with objective guidance and feedback. As long as there is transparency and an acceptance of the boundaries and limitations of these digital assistants, this shouldn't be an excuse for us to ostracize or judge others.
I have long since given up trying to be the “AI police,” at least on WdC. I've found most people who posted what was likely AI generated content had no intention of staying for very long anyway. My ongoing thoughts on the matter, subject to modification in a rapidly evolving environment, are that AI chatbots are a tool, to be either used with care in a controlled situation or avoided entirely. The good or bad of it largely depends on one's abilities and intentions.
In a world where almost every tool in a writer's toolbox can be used for good or bad, one must hold oneself to the highest standards of creative integrity. I know I always will do my best.
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