alt Hacker NewsThe trick, I think - at least this has helped me - is not to use the AI to write for me, nor to use it to rewrite my drafts, but is to do the writing myself and to ask it for editorial feedback. This forces me to think through what I’ve written more deeply, and then rewrite it according to that deeper understanding.
I think if I used AI for the actual writing then, (a) there’d be a lot missing, and (b) I’d rob myself of much of the value, in better understanding, of writing myself.
We’re not all the same so YMMV, but this is what I’ve found from using AI in various ways to see if and how it can help with writing.
This is my stance, but I go further to say that that you shouldn't even use it for feedback...
The feedback bit is surely more debatable, but I would argue the initial writing and allowing edits are not.
https://antoaenono.com/write/fragments/writing#:~:text=never...
With respect to seeking feedback, my angle is that: even if you do agree with the feedback then what they do. Are you going to take it as is? Are you going to come up with it and phrase it in your own way?
What next? Next, what if there's a bunch more feedback that you agree with and you incorporate it. Then, where do we go from there?
Can you even go back to (b) and make your own edits at this point? I'm not sure and I worry about a slippery slope where you stray too far from your own original form -- so I landed on not seeking feedback either.
note: this all is definitely under progress and as I'm looking at it it's very noisy with all of the formatting... just finally getting my site put together
also not sure about my fish progress bar hah