AI is for people who don't want to or can't think. Period.
I write to figure out what I think and how to think about it better.
I write to figure out what I think and how to think about it better.
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Malinda Lo
Today I opened up Word and now on every freaking line there is an icon for Microsoft's Copilot AI tool, always asking me to use it to write. WTF. After googling, it appears IMPOSSIBLE to remove. I cannot use Word with an AI tool. I'm a professional fucking writer. I don't want it inserting shit.
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Do you mean this in a hyperbolic sense, or that AI is for people who are actually incapable of thinking?
“AI, write me a news story” and “AI, help me correct my spelling, grammar, and point out any holes in my thought process” are very different ways of using the tools available to us.
It’s about using AI to enhance your work, not to do it for you—at least, that’s how I see it.
I do have 4o.
Where we all personally draw the line on what is AI or not is all a bit of a boiled frog syndrome.
You don’t ask it to give you the answer; you ask it to tutor you so you can learn.
Humans are lazy—that’s not the software’s fault. We just need to be better with the tools we have available.
A good approach is to ask it to verify information or check the internet for sources.
Again, the tool is not the problem, it’s how you use it.
Any half-decent editor would have taken it out.