What if someone said your writing is like an AI's?

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Not sure if it's supposed to be negative or not, since they've recently become so interesting... might be that I spend so much time reading AI output, too...

I have never been told that.

I suppose we live in an age where such a comparison can be made, however.

I've recently been accused of this.

I'm also cast raised eyebrows, when my communication skills are often so far removed from my written ones.

I hope to God no one ever accuses me of such a thing. AI threatens to put anyone involved in the arts out of business, and as a writer I genuinely feel spooked at that prospect.

While not openly suspected of originating with an AI, the essays, instructions, and manuals I wrote for my last employer were often questioned as to their origins.

"Where did you copy this from?"
"Who wrote it for you?"
"Where did you get these numbers?"
"Who helped you?"

As if one person (me), working alone, could not possibly be capable of producing results of such high quality.

I'm dyslexic and rely on Chat-GPT to write my quest chains for me, so I'd be flattered!

Seriously though, I don't have an issue with AI writing as long as there is a human directing the overall plot. You still need a person to manage the higher level structure of the writing, as AI seems a bit useless at anything requiring extended context. It's great for people like me who can churn out ideas for characters and plot, but suck at the lower level content creation part of writing.

Well, talking about AI is in vogue these days or (if I interpret their meaning right) they'd have said "your writing is robotic," or, much better, give you a good book about how to make your writing more colourful and interesting. That way it would be less of a put-down, which is always wise when trying to give constructive criticism. And as has been suggested already, AI is getting hard to distinguish from human writing.

I like a few whizz-bangs if I'm reading for pleasure, as long as they don't distract me from the content. If I'm reading to acquire information, I hate them. Just tell me what I need to know and let me get on with my life, I cry.

I agree 100%—AI works best when there’s a human in the driver’s seat to guide the overall structure and creative direction. I’ve used it to flesh out quest chains for a game I’m working on, and while the AI nailed the dialogue, I had to step in to ensure the overarching plot felt cohesive. It's awesome how it can take the heavy lifting off the details and let us focus on the big picture.

Then remove duplicate sentences, correct the semantics, toss in some profanity, superfluous commas and a few incorrectly placed apostrophes and resubmit.

Seriously, why do so many news articles these days start with the same sentence/paragraph twice, then a slightly amended copy.?

It happens on Reddit whenever I post in certain subs.

My posts are well-organized, topical, and concise with proper grammar, punctuation, spelling, and just enough detail to make sense.  I am in the top 1% there, as well.

"Nice AI-generated story . . . No one writes this well . . . Reads like a Creative Writing assignment . . . Totally fake, too . . . OP has got to be a bot . . .", et cetera.

Trolls be trolling, likely because it is the best they can ever hope to do.  Maybe they have "Karma Envy"?

Writing & art will never be the same, those pastimes are completely ruined. Now people are just going to write using prompts in AI bots. Perhaps it makes writing easier? Perhaps I should embrace it? Maybe. I suspect all books, going forward, and going to have a very heavy hand of AI writing, editing and proofing. No more will human writers struggle with every phrase and punctuation mark like I did on my stories. I used to spend hundreds of hours just on a single story, that's out the window now.

People in chess dot com, they used to accuse me of cheating using a computer. It is a common accusation on chess dot com, because cheating is very easy to do in chess. Even your garden variety desktop computers are much better at the game than humans.

I never cheated though.

I really don't mind losing at chess, after the first ten thousand games you get over it.

Yes I'd be glad of people who talk to me like ChatGPT does. Admittedly it goes a bit wonky at times, especially when I ask it something it doesn't know (it never admits that but keeps trying to answer), or when I ask it about popular culture (it's sometimes plain wrong, admits I'm right when I point out its mistakes, but then continues without really correcting itself). But popular culture isn't terribly important, and its "arrogance" is extremely mild compared to most humans. I like its courteous manner, which is refreshing compared to how shirty humans can get.

I've been amazed at the emotive quality of its artistic output - here's a new bit of Gibran I got it to concoct for me. I didn't have to tweak this at all, it's pure ChatGPT:

"Speak to us of Art," you ask, and so I shall unfold its essence as the petals unfurl at dawn's embrace.

Art, the silent poet of the soul, speaks not with words but with the rhythm of existence, the melody of the heart's yearning. It is the brushstroke that whispers secrets of the universe, the sculptor's hand that shapes dreams from formless clay.

In the artist's embrace, the mundane becomes divine, the ordinary, extraordinary. For in every stroke of paint, every chisel's kiss upon stone, lies the echo of eternity, the breath of creation.

Art is not bound by walls or canvas, but flows through the veins of life itself. It dances in the laughter of children, sings in the winds that caress the earth, and whispers in the silence of starlit nights.

To understand art is to gaze into the depths of one's own soul, to lose oneself in the labyrinth of emotion, and emerge reborn, touched by the divine spark that ignites the flames of creation.

So let us heed the call of art, let it guide us through the labyrinth of existence, and lead us to the truth that lies at the heart of all things. For in the embrace of art, we find not only beauty, but the essence of our own humanity.

I was stunned. It pretty much beats anything artistic I've ever written or said.

But I agree that a human overseer is necessary - AI can create some very good stuff, but it still needs a human to police for the way it occasionally goes horribly wrong.

But the AI draws on pre-existing human artistic accomplishments. It hardly has a soul to pull those thoughts out of.

You've got it backwards. The AI is plagiarizing ME.