Kids, if you need the water-guzzling lie machine to give you writing ideas, please put down your chosen writing implements for a month or a whole season and go get in trouble. You have to live to write.
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You also need imagination. A machine can't infuse a sentence with the words the way a person who's experienced life on Earth can. I don't necessarily think a good writer has to have had a full and exciting "irl" life, but they need to fully live one in their mind, if that makes sense.
Our daughter came home one day from tenth grade with the story of a couple classmates who came back from lunch obviously stoned and were shocked to be expelled on the spot, and I think of that every time someone thinks AI can solve problems
I get what you're trying to say, but telling people who cannot get out and "live" by your definition that they cannot write is probably not going to have the intended effect.
YES! Get angry about something. Get your heart broken. Do too much research on something deeply irrelevant. Get arrested. Find a cool place to get coffee sometimes. People watch. Do some white collar crime. Grow a garden. Idk, everybody has their own thing but you have to live.
I'm confused, because to me an idea is: people suddenly become giants, or coffee turns people into raving lunatics (hmmm), and I got that shit for days. That seems like something you would NOT use A.I. for.
Do they mean A.I. gives them "plots"? Good lord no, I hope not ... that's even worse.
They use it for "problem solving" as if the whole creative process isn't literally that very work of finding your way through plots and stories and the forms in which they're best communicated.
Or read someone else's book, watch a movie, etc. You can live a thousand lives through fiction but the lie machine can't hallucinate a life worth living vicariously for you.
You have to do something, at the very least read, but get out. Get hurt (a little), learn from it. Write about the pain. Then read it and realize it’s cringe and try again.
You either have to live or have a big enough imagination and sense of self to know what you want. Like… I’ve never been in a relationship, but if I wanna write a romance, I’m damn well sure what I want from one
No offense intended, just responding to what seemed like a public take with a related thought from a different perspective. “Kids” as the opener usually signals a general audience. But hey, if it was just for friends, I’ll step back. Good luck with the conversation.
Yeah, I've never been elitist about it. AI has changed that. I think if you even consider using it, you've failed as an artist and that's what it's telling you.
And it's a fun bit! Genuinely, if you can't think of things to say/write that at the very least entertain YOU... you'd be a hell of a lot happier doing something other than writing
This but also my kids have zero life experience and still come up with the funniest shit. Today my 4 year old sang a song about how the moon was rising but the sun was still there; like exploring what it would feel like to see something that surreal.
I think there's a window. Really young kids are un-self-conscious about unique ideas. Then school and/or peer pressure (try to) squelch them. Teenagers are rebellious enough to want to create anyway, but by that time they've internalized judgments about what ideas are "allowed."
This is exactly right and I see it with my 7yo. Her art went from truly cool as fuck and more feeling-based with movement, to suddenly very basic elementary kid’s drawing. But it’s okay I trust her to circle back.
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Which for most ppl is not how that works at all. Most ppl have to suffer to learn
but the writing... sigh
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Do they mean A.I. gives them "plots"? Good lord no, I hope not ... that's even worse.
If you need it for ideas, maybe writing isnt for you.
Go outside and look at things
I can't even get a decent table at Nando's
But I still think your kids should go out and get in trouble 😈
My blood pressure thinking about my kids getting into trouble: 📈📈📈📈📈📈📈