Here is the initial Brain Dump of this article:
source: Nano Banana
Here is the initial Brain Dump of this article:
Is it wrong to use AI for writing?
Sitting on my desk staring at my screen at an article I'm writing about "Multi-Model AI - The Symphony of Specialized AI Swarms" I wonder if using AI to help me write the article is such a bad thing?
Before you get all furious and start burning down the town let me explain how I use AI. For starters, I read comics since I'm 5 and books the moment I could read them. The genres I like are Sci-fi, fantasy and history and as a result I have a vivid imagination. I have a let's call it "special" career path that brought me into all kinds of positions in a broad range of industries. As a result I like to cross-pollinate Ideas and try out ideas I see in one profession into another profession in another industry.
So since the beginning of AI am I using it but a few months ago I decided that I wanted to become a better writer. And I started to not use AI anymore and was looking for tools like spelling and grammar checkers and even used Grammarly. But I have to admit that it's difficult with dyslexia and English not being my native language. Recently I started asking myself what I want to be a great writer or a great AI consultant and Strategist. And the answer is the latter one. So the time I spent figuring out how to write my ideas and visions down is better spent by learning and applying AI related things. Following courses, building applications, fine-tune models and help companies on their journey to introduce and implement AI into their Business model and operating models.
The problem is that I am not so good at writing, I can imagine stories by visualizing images in my head but for some reason I just can't find the right words to write them down. I can draw and explain but writing them down captivating has always been an issue.
So while I sit here staring at my screen I think "AI could make my story much better". My process is doing a brain dump of the topic and ideas I have. I do some research about those topics or look for extra material and examples. But at that point it looks like a research paper. There is no flow, it's a lot of bullet points and in essence a list of paragraphs without a red thread through the article and definitely not enjoyable to read.
I could spend days with a thesaurus and spelling book to find the right words, but then an article would take ages, and let's be honest the fun would be gone the 4th time you read your own piece and adapting it.
What I noticed is that people have a strong opinion about this. If its AI it's not authentic or human enough for some reason and I don't really get that. I admit if you just ask AI to write and article on topic XYZ the result is boring, and you can see it right away that it's generated.
But what about the current way of writing, let's say for a paper or magazine, The journalist puts her heart out on the paper and creates the best she can. Will it gets published right away? No it has to pass spelling and grammar and the final editor. This person will decide what will happen with the article, she may have to change it, or remove parts or add parts, maybe she has to start all over and write it from a different angle. So is this fair and authentic then?
Other writers use tools like spelling and grammar checkers and a service like Grammarly, which is AI by the way but for some reason this is acceptable for people. No idea why they accept using the Grammarly AI but hate GPT. But the result of those writers is not their own.
Another example is ghostwriters, the world is full of them, people have an idea and hire a ghostwriter. The job of the ghostwriter is to take the ideas and the vision and mold it into a nice readable captivating format, an article or a book. Again the original creator has nothing to do with it, that person just gave some topics, visions and ideas and said this can go and this is a no-go, and the ghostwriter does her magic. Why is that acceptable but not using AI.
And if I start to think deeper about his topic I notice that I can find a lot of examples where content is not created by one person and almost never by the initial creator but mostly a collaborative task of multiple people. A C-suit manager will provide some ideas and concepts and the assistant will make the presentation. Is the assistant recognized for her hard work, no she's not, but the manager is doing the presentation and gets the credit while everyone in the room knows he didn't create the presentation himself.
Content creation is the same, we let companies create our content and advertisement and branding. The company itself just gives a topic or a vision and sometimes not even that. In a lot of cases the content creators have to do a workshop with the company to be able to get the right input before they can even start.
If you start looking around in the world today all the content is never from one creator and is altered multiple times or written by other people. We all know but we accept it. Even the speeches of presidents are not written by themselves we know, but we accept it and applaud and tell people that was a great speech.
But if you use AI to help you with adapting your visions, ideas, questions or observations then people start protesting and label you as a fake that is not capable of writing. The greatest writers even have an editor and have to pass spelling and grammar so what's wrong with letting AI help you.
So this helped me a lot, writing this article made a lot of sense to me and from now on I will use AI as my ghostwriter, my spelling checker and editor. Because the most important part of sharing content is to get my ideas, advice and vision over to people. That is the most important matter, and to do, so I have to be able to bring it in a way that people would read it and be captivated by my ideas, not my words but my ideas.
So from now on I will do what I have done before:
- dump my brain about a topic
- do some extra research
- find examples
- put some structure in my article
- pass it to an AI with well-defined instructions about the flow, the style, the tone and voice, the important parts and to make sure that people are captivated or inspired.
What do you think of this let me know in the comments I'm very interested in what people think and why exactly they are against the use of AI. And let me repeat it I am not a fan of giving AI a topic and let it generate some content. I mean your input should be the start and AI should be helping you
Here are a few prompts I used to guide the AI to enhance this article:
- /blog/Cyborgs--AI--and-Credsticks--How-Sci-Fi-is-Shaping-Our-Future-2d7d1305274f
Read this medium article, its my tone and voice, then create an article about "Is it wrong to use AI for writing" in that same tone and voice, and write from the me persona.
- its to short and the bullet points are breaking the flow and do not let me imagine while reading.
- now add headings and break up paragraphs so it nice to read on mobile instead of a wall of text.
- Find me a captivating title for a medium article. Keep in mind that the complete title must be readable when in an article list view
- Add me a section to the article that will tell that in the comments they can find my initial brain dump for this article. And that it will be ethical to mention that this article is edited by AI. Provide me a standard sentence that describes my process of providing full researched input and let AI be my ghostwriter.
- Provide a heading for the following paragraphs and at to the paragraph my link to my article "/blog/Cyborgs--AI--and-Credsticks--How-Sci-Fi-is-Shaping-Our-Future-2d7d1305274f"
and my love and fascination for Cyberpunk.
- Provide a description for an image to use with the article