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Eryn Sunnolia's avatar

really disappointed to see you promoting use of this inherently exploitative technology

kristen o'neal's avatar

really sad and disappointed to see this from you guys. I've been a fan of Narratively for years but I'm reconsidering that now.

Sophie Berghouse, MD's avatar

Of course he'll do it for free!

NiteWrighter's avatar

Gross. This is not what I followed you for.

Barracuda's avatar

ChatGPT is a horrible company. You should be ashamed of perpetuating the problem.

#BOYCOTCHATGPT

https://www.instagram.com/p/DV8vgdljX5C/

Andrew Johnston's avatar

I guess I'm the only person here who isn't surprised to see this filth on something as exploitative as NA.

Shantell Powell's avatar

This is upsetting. Why are you promoting something which relies on the theft of authors' work, which atrophies users' ability to think, and which is environmentally destructive?

Jay Dixit's avatar

Shantell, I share a lot of these concerns, and I think you might be surprised by how much we agree on. In my opinion, the default ways most people are using AI are pretty grim.

As we all know, when you ask AI to generate content for you, what it spits out is generic, soulless slop. The approach I teach is the opposite of using AI to generate prose. I don't let my students use AI to generate content or prose at all.

Instead, we learn to use AI as a sounding board to talk through ideas, ask clarifying questions, and figure out what we actually want to say. You do all the writing yourself. You never let AI produce a single sentence that goes into your work.

I just wanted to chime in to clarify this, since it's core to my belief and work as a writer myself.

Shantell Powell's avatar

To top it all off, reputable publishers will not publish anything which uses AI in its conception.