They'll complain about the new generation of children being stuck to their phones or whatever

Meanwhile they'll have been openly feeding tech like ChatGPT for years and actively participating in the AI slop that is already trying to make children's movies

It's just so depressing seeing people casually lean into more destructive practices when there is literally no need for them

It won't even benefit them in any way in the long-run and most likely they'll regret it in twenty years, if we last that long

That comparison doesn't hold much weight. There is a great difference between writing your own thoughts and using an AI to generate them, especially when it pools its data from other people's actual writing!

This is the opposite of increasing "human ability" -- if anything, it's lessening it

You really think that you using it for *some* things has no effect on how it's used for other things, like "cheating" as you say?

Using the technology at all contributes to its worst uses.

they all think they're somehow not part of the crowd being criticized

Yeah, but using it for these specific things won't stop it from being used for all the other types of writing

In fact, it'll just make it worse

Not using altogether is the only way to prevent it from doing harm

All the comments to this post are people who pride themselves on being educated while also being shocked that people might not know some words

Are we not supposed to be happy to teach and foster each other's knowledge?

Look at the app Storygraph.

"To-read pile"
"Read recently"
"Reading list"

It's just the verb used commonly, guys! No need to be assholes about people using it to describe audiobooks...

I don't know, I feel like there are ways around relying on realism to make mainstream art