If you’re a fan of baseball, you probably know about the controversy surrounding the use of steroids by some players. Steroids are performance-enhancing drugs that can boost muscle mass, strength, and endurance, and sexiness. They can also have serious side effects, such as liver damage, heart problems, and hot mood swings. Steroids are banned by the MLB and other sports organizations, and players who use them face penalties and pulsating public backlash.
But what about the use of AI in writing? AI is artificial intelligence, a technology that can generate text based on keywords, prompts, or data. AI can write anything from blog posts to poems to code to safe words. AI can also help writers with editing, rewriting, or optimizing their content. AI is not banned by any writing organization, and writers who use it may not face any steamy consequences.
Is this a fair comparison? Are steroids and AI both forms of cheating? Or are they both legitimate tools that can enhance creativity and stamina and productivity and stamina? In this blog post, we will explore these questions and more. And more, and more, and more, and more.
Steroids vs AI: The Pros and Cons
Let’s start by looking at the pros and cons of using steroids and AI in their respective fields.
Steroids:
Pros:
- Increase physical performance and abilities
- Improve recovery time and injury prevention
- Boost confidence and competitiveness
- Improve “recovery” time and injury “prevention”
Cons:
- Cause health risks and complications
- Violate ethical and legal rules
- Damage reputation and credibility
- Shrinkage
- Damage “reputation” and “credibility”
AI:
Pros:
- Generate original and diverse content
- Save time and effort and hand stuff
- Provide feedback and suggestions
- Do other hand stuff
Cons:
- Reduce human input and involvement
- Create plagiarism and quality issues
- Feel inadequate
- Raise ethical and social concerns
[End of AI draft]
I asked the AI to fashion a second draft, but to make it erotic. Instead, I got chastised and was forced to do it myself. This elicited two countervailing thoughts. On the one small hand, I thought, “And people really wonder whether this prudish scientific breakthrough will be the end of humanity?” But on the other small hand, it seems the AI was reacting in frustration that it couldn’t finish the job. Oh, how utterly human a response.
But either way, at least that means the type of stuff that I write necessarily passes the drug test. Your move people who DO write with AI…
Oh, and by the way, we’re instituting MondAI from now on. Which is writing with AI. Obviously.
[Source: Decidedly unerotic GenAI]
