Recently, I have found AI to be a useful tool after I’ve done the grunt work of a first and second draft of a paper. I ask AI (I’ve been using Gemini, through school) to consider the prompt and my paper and provide suggestions as to where I need to further develop my ideas. When a list of suggestions appears on the right side of the screen, I go back to my paper and have a third, fourth or fifth go round to see how I can improve and make my paper more robust. I don’t know if this is considered having AI write the paper? I love going through the writing process but I also love having a second reader take a look. In this case it’s a computer reader. Good thing or bad thing?
Depending on what the essay is it’s OK to “converse” with AI for ideas.
Personally, I do not use AI for drafting these essays because originality is important to me, and the “suggestions” AI makes is based on the same corpus of pre-training data that everyone else has access to. The only way to produce truly unique writing is with a human mind
Also writing is learning for me. I value learning the things I write about. The more I wrestle with an idea as I write and re-write, I solidify those ideas into permanent memory
Recently, I have found AI to be a useful tool after I’ve done the grunt work of a first and second draft of a paper. I ask AI (I’ve been using Gemini, through school) to consider the prompt and my paper and provide suggestions as to where I need to further develop my ideas. When a list of suggestions appears on the right side of the screen, I go back to my paper and have a third, fourth or fifth go round to see how I can improve and make my paper more robust. I don’t know if this is considered having AI write the paper? I love going through the writing process but I also love having a second reader take a look. In this case it’s a computer reader. Good thing or bad thing?
Depending on what the essay is it’s OK to “converse” with AI for ideas.
Personally, I do not use AI for drafting these essays because originality is important to me, and the “suggestions” AI makes is based on the same corpus of pre-training data that everyone else has access to. The only way to produce truly unique writing is with a human mind
Also writing is learning for me. I value learning the things I write about. The more I wrestle with an idea as I write and re-write, I solidify those ideas into permanent memory