This topic reminds me of AI talk about surveillance. People in China are supposed to see AI as an overlooking mother, always there
to help people in need and to confine evil doers. People in USA are supposed to see AI as a genius cousin who is very rational, helpful and reserved.
I can't wrap my head around either of these ways of thinking.
I suppose that on the one hand, as a Star Trek fan who has spent decades watching shows in which people talk to the ship's computer as though it's an actual individual, I might be expected to think AI is an interesting tool.
The truth? My artistic self stepped up and got angry when the people who decided to ruin NaNoWriMo suddenly started sneaking AI programs into the winners' goodies and advertising them and encouraging the use of AI, pretending that "it's really for the good of the disabled Wrimos, who just can't compete with the able-bodied writers, so we're giving them some extra help. After all, they can't type as fast and some of them have trouble thinking as quickly or clearly and need help with spelling and grammar..." and on and on and on with their ABLEIST BS.
Pretty arrogant of someone who writes smut just this side of pornographic (she sells on Amazon) to look down her nose at people like me, with physical issues that mean I find it a hell of a lot harder to do NaNo now than I did even 5 years ago, so of course I'd NEED a boost from AI, right?
Wrong. I once did over 8600 words in less than 24 hours, to push myself past the 50k mark. That was in 2018, the first time I used my King's Heir story for NaNo purposes. That was physically painful to the point that my hands and fingers were aching three days later. And I was still writing (though not as much per day).
Not one of those words happened due to AI. I take pride in that, and so do many other physically disabled writers, and writers who have learning disabilities (there are more dyslexic writers than most people might guess). So many of them are saying NO to using AI.