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Nancy E. Holroyd, RN's avatar

AI is all so pervasive now, but I would like to ask those that use it, "Don't you feel like you are cheating the authors that unknowingly contributed their best words to it?"

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Derek Nyberg's avatar

As a teacher I get ai to spit out everything from lists to worksheets to essays. It saves me a lot of time, but I use it for mostly low level learners. The style is pretty obvious - I call it relentless obviousness. "Echoes of laughter," "ghosts of games," from your examples are not obvious in of themselves, but the repetition of those kinds of descriptions, and also collocations, is definitely a tell-tale sign. Also, I'd look out for what I call mechanically-correct dependent clauses! After a while, you'll see ai prose is rife with them. So, in my opinion, those who are using ai to "write" stories are just fooling themselves. Thanks for the article!

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