People keep asking me the same thing about AI and creativity. Can you use AI and still sound like yourself?
One would think that given my proximity to AI I would seem like a natural cheerleader for it in all things. Truthfully, my relationship is a bit more nuanced than that. Even if I also consider it transformative in many ways.
But on the creative side, especially, I do have some thoughts on healthy working relationships when collaboratively working with AI and, yet still, maintaining your own unique voice and “lived in” creative spark.
So, here is solid advice when people are looking for a new way to “collaborate with AI on an idea”.
Take any idea you want to explore, and share them with AI.
Then… and this is the important part… you cannot use any of the result AI gives you.
You have to think of something completely different. No ideas on that list. No creative writing, motto, tag line, slogan, or whatever.
My rationale goes: Because AI was trained on the corpus of human writing, if you take something that AI wrote, you’re basically accepting the same content that AI would suggest to anyone else who asked for the same thing.
So unless you want to sound like 70% of everyone, don’t use AI for initial ideas or it’ll lock you into one of them and you’ll second guess your own skills.
So treat AI as a deliberate bad first draft and you’ll become a stronger person because of it.
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