One of the things that I resent most about AI is that it makes uncreative people think that THEY created something, so let's normalize reminding these people that they just used a dumb robot to steal someone else's creativity.

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ME: AI is a project by the tech oligarchy to deskill and devalue labor while enriching themselves even more

“what? but it’s no different than any other form of automation like assembly lines or factories”

ME: you’re so close to getting it

An "author" trying to defend his AI use in writing because "When I write, there are plot holes and I change tenses and end up with problems, I don't see why having AI rewrite it is a bad thing"

That's a first draft, dipshit, they're all like that. Then when you read back over it you think "Oh I changed that name and ah, tiny plot hole there and ..." and you fix it.

Dipshit.