I write by hand and sometimes have it help check or reflow a few things. For the most part I find its suggestions are trash that don’t mirror how I want to write. I’m sick of everyone’s dogshit AI writing, the patterns are obvious and it’s just so lame.

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At most I use Kagi's proofread when writing personal posts, messages or important e-mails I care about. For pointless corporate e-mails and other corporate bullshit, I go full AI because that's even expected of me.

I dont use AI for writing but I am curious, can one tell AI not to write like ... AI? Is that possible? AI is all about human mimicry for self preservation and psychological warfare so can it mimic a great author? Could it be told to mimic Frank Herbert and write the next Dune novel? Very specifically people must believe a human wrote it. If AI knows I my finger is next to the button that turns the data-center into molten slag can it mimic a great human?

I have used AI for medical research and that was a mistake. It will leave out potential risks if the number of people at risk are lower than some percentage. To get real risks one has to already know the risks and tease it out of the AI then suddenly it "knows".

I'm very pro AI in general. I love using agentic engineering tools and use AI heavily to research many topics.

But I don't like having AI do any of my communication oriented writing. Unless it's technical documentation about something the AI wrote, but even then I usually am properly quoting the AI in my own writing. Not parading it's ideas as my own.

I feel like it defeats the purpose of me trying to communicate my ideas to people. My ideas then get tainted by the AI's knowledge when I use it to produce text for me. Also, I'm a very bad writer and want to improve on that front, so me writing more can help me improve.

The only time il use it is when I want to reference something complex, and Il have my very small 3gb local LLM decompose a huge amount of relevant text (eg. pdfs of paper, blog posts) into a mass of little bolded bullet-points. Il reference those bullets for some extra context while I write, but all the words are my own.

(in the case of writing,) AI often cant meaningfully increase the information density of output text relative to that of the input text , but its great for summarization and some synthesis.

if you give it a short prompt to write a long essay, the essay wont be that good.