Blog Posts

AI can be a valuable tool for getting inspiration for blog posts. I may use it to help brainstorm ideas for new and varied postings, and I might ask it to help me outline a post or provide ideas to make it more robust. If a blog post is strictly informational, I may use AI more heavily, and I will always disclose when AI is used for writing. For opinion pieces…I don’t see the point in using AI writing. I may also use AI tools to help generate header images or infographics for posts.

Book Reviews

Same as above–I may use AI to help organize or flesh out a piece, but a media review has no inherent value if it’s not my own opinions in my own words. I’ve tried using it to generate captions for my social media posts, but it’s horrid at it!

Emails

This might be the area where I most heavily use AI. Even before the rise of Real Serious AI, I had no issue using the suggestions provided by GMail for completing a sentence. I’m not trying to get my correspondence into the Smithsonian, and I use email primarily as an information-transfer medium (as opposed to more casual communication, which I reserve for texting).

Fiction

I will not use AI to write my fiction content. Besides my previous statement of “what would be the point?” I think it’s dishonest, detracts from the point of fiction, and cheats the reader out of a genuine artistic experience (unless the use of AI relates to your purpose and is clearly disclosed). I may sometimes use AI to organize my research–for example, I’m working on a novel set in the United States in 2011, and as I work on a scene I’ll ask ChatGPT: “What events might a person of X age have been aware of on Y date?” But the robot gets fact-checked, and doesn’t write.