I agree. It also helps you find out how much you know about a topic. If you can write it out explicitly, and the answers come to you quickly with few errors, maybe you’ve mastered a subject. Practice and Mastery
What about a scenario where you’ve thought through an idea and think you have a valuable point of view, but when you write it down it just doesn’t feel right. Your friend Al comes over to help you write it out because he’s a talented English major. You tell him your idea, show him your writing on it and ask him how he would improve it. He writes you the first rough draft, but you don’t like it. You argue back and forth about that not being quite what you meant. He writes you a second draft. You like this draft better but explain to Al that it doesn’t address x possible rebuttal whoever reads it might give. Al makes the corrections and finally writes something you agree with. You have an important meeting to get to so You tell Al to send it out and thank him for the help.
In that scenario, you still took part in the creative process, and although you didn’t write it, Al wouldn’t have came up with the final draft without your input or ideas. Al helped flesh out your thoughts and put them onto paper. And you fully endorsed the final outcome. What do you think about this scenario and why @anonymous105?
Yeah, some other uses I’ve found:
AI can sometimes help break down ideas more simply (ELI5)
Like @Max had mentioned elsewhere, you can have it argue a specific point of view and have it pretend to be that person, and sometimes it does pretty well. Like if you have it argue like Rand would.
It can be pretty good at giving toy examples to help explain certain ideas. Toy examples help me imagine how things could work in the real world.
It can sometimes summarize articles for you or find a quote you were looking for, although your mileage will vary a lot here. Sometimes it’s pretty bad.
Going back to writing use cases:
AI can help flesh out ideas or consider criticisms you hadn’t thought of, and if you’re writing back and forth with someone on a forum, it can sometimes point out things your conversation partner hadn’t thought of either (and it can do it almost instantly whereas it can take days/weeks sometimes to get a response from someone on forums).
It can generate generic email responses in certain scenarios where you have other goals/priorities you want to focus on.
It can find grammatical errors in your writing.
My guess as to why any AI writing has to be disclosed on this forum is because it helps make clear what your writing is, and there is something important about that (including what @anonymous105 mentioned). It also helps filter out bots, although I don’t know how successful a bot would be on here, especially when it comes to replying directly to another member and quoting.
PS.
It’s getting harder to write on mobile here. I write on mobile a lot and this is the first time it’s been buggy in a way that added a lot of unnecessary time to my writing and posting this.