Although there are tradeoffs associated with AI writing, mostly being able to produce content that can appear polished and well-considered when it is not, I think AIās enabling the proliferation of good thoughts and ideas that would otherwise just never happen far outweighs this.
Going back and forth with AI, reviewing, and drafting can turn a writing process that might take several days to a week or more, into an hour or two, or less. This enables me, and Iām sure others, to share content and ideas that otherwise we would not be able to.
Removing the barriers to people sharing their thoughts quickly and effectively is probably how we get more new and impactful ideas out there. Iāve been pretty sad at the sort of witch-huntery Iāve been seeing about AI generated content.
I agree that It may enable you to share ideas a little faster (although Iām not sure by how much). Most individual good ideas could be expressed in a couple of paragraphs if need be.
I donāt buy though that you āwouldnāt be able to share themā otherwise. Iām happy for AI to help with your thoughts and ideas (brainstorming, ideating, research), just not with your final writing. Iām not convinced at all yet that AI is āenabling the proliferation of good thoughts and ideasā in a significant way. Can you share any evidence of that? Iāve not been very impresses with posts on the forum here that heavily use AI
I donāt think writing the final draft without AI is a huge barrier to sharing thoughts quickly and effectively. Insofar as it might be, Iād take the tradeoff the other way.
Its interesting that this is so polarising. Iām certainly one of those witch hunters at the moment at least. A year ago I was more OK with AI writing but Iām now vehemently against it after seeing Linkedin, which 2 years ago was a pretty interesting platform, deteriorate to low quality discourse full of AI slop in both the posts and the comments. On that platform at least it has lowered the quality of ideas and discourse, not improved them. I hope Substack doesnāt go the same way.
I have experience writing things with and without AI. At least for me, it can be a very difficult process trying to convey things as clearly and effectively as I can. Perhaps I am being unreasonable in putting that much time into the process and perhaps other people are just much better at writing clearly and effectively without AI. But I can say that I would not produce a lot of the content that I produce without AI being able to shorten the process significantly.
I disagree pretty strongly with this.
Although there are tradeoffs associated with AI writing, mostly being able to produce content that can appear polished and well-considered when it is not, I think AIās enabling the proliferation of good thoughts and ideas that would otherwise just never happen far outweighs this.
Going back and forth with AI, reviewing, and drafting can turn a writing process that might take several days to a week or more, into an hour or two, or less. This enables me, and Iām sure others, to share content and ideas that otherwise we would not be able to.
Removing the barriers to people sharing their thoughts quickly and effectively is probably how we get more new and impactful ideas out there. Iāve been pretty sad at the sort of witch-huntery Iāve been seeing about AI generated content.
I agree that It may enable you to share ideas a little faster (although Iām not sure by how much). Most individual good ideas could be expressed in a couple of paragraphs if need be.
I donāt buy though that you āwouldnāt be able to share themā otherwise. Iām happy for AI to help with your thoughts and ideas (brainstorming, ideating, research), just not with your final writing. Iām not convinced at all yet that AI is āenabling the proliferation of good thoughts and ideasā in a significant way. Can you share any evidence of that? Iāve not been very impresses with posts on the forum here that heavily use AI
I donāt think writing the final draft without AI is a huge barrier to sharing thoughts quickly and effectively. Insofar as it might be, Iād take the tradeoff the other way.
Its interesting that this is so polarising. Iām certainly one of those witch hunters at the moment at least. A year ago I was more OK with AI writing but Iām now vehemently against it after seeing Linkedin, which 2 years ago was a pretty interesting platform, deteriorate to low quality discourse full of AI slop in both the posts and the comments. On that platform at least it has lowered the quality of ideas and discourse, not improved them. I hope Substack doesnāt go the same way.
I have experience writing things with and without AI. At least for me, it can be a very difficult process trying to convey things as clearly and effectively as I can. Perhaps I am being unreasonable in putting that much time into the process and perhaps other people are just much better at writing clearly and effectively without AI. But I can say that I would not produce a lot of the content that I produce without AI being able to shorten the process significantly.