Nicolas Cole argues the real problem with AI writing isn't the technology itself but lazy prompts and publishing without human review. Good AI writing requires fact-checking, adding sources, and polishing the output until it's a genuine collaboration between human and machine.
When you hear people say, "I don't want you using AI," or, "I don't want it to be AI written," what they are referring to is someone who uses a very poor prompt and then gets a very poor output and then deploys zero effort in improving that final output. So it's not that AI is the problem. When people say, "I don't want you using AI," the problem they're pointing at is, "I don't want you to defer 100% of the thinking." If you're going through and yeah, you're using AI, but you're also reading through it and you're fact-checking and and you're adding sources as needed, if AI gives you some stat and you're like, "Ah, I want to double-check and make sure that that's real," and you go and actually find the source to the thing, if you're reading through paragraphs and you're like cleaning up some of the language, it is impossible for anyone to know how much of that was AI and how much of that was you, because you're still— you are still a very important participant in the creation of the thing.
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