Simon Dillon
Jun 22, 2023

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"Pencils, ballpoint pens, ring-bound notebooks, laptops, phones" don't write for you. That's the difference.

I am not a landscape gardener, but let's say I took the view that those naturally skilled in landscape gardening are exercising their "privilege" by carrying out their craft whilst I lack their skill. If a robot could do the bulk of the landscape gardening work for me because I'm busy with other things, and I then tweaked a few stones here and there, passing it off as my own work, I can imagine genuine landscape gardeners would rightly be insulted.

I don't approve of AI as a means to create articles, books, and so forth. This idea of AI somehow "democratising" writing for those less skilled is an insult to real writers.

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Simon Dillon
Simon Dillon

Written by Simon Dillon

Novelist and Short Story-ist. Film and Book Lover. If you cut me, I bleed celluloid and paper pulp. Blog: www.simondillonbooks.wordpress.com

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