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Pretty dumb analogy. The musicians are still writing the songs & music - all they're automating is the playing of their creations. OP is talking about taking the human out of the creative process itself, not the recitation of the work.
The op only said "writers are crazy if they're not using AI these days". If that means using AI to write your story then yes it's bad. If it means using AI to research your story or outline your story or make a schedule/game plan for writing (in a similar way that musicians use computers to compose the music they otherwise play themselves). Well, that can still be bad but if they still write the words themselves it's definitely different.
I don't disagree that what's being falsely labeled as "AI" could be helpful when used in a judicious manner. The issue is that far too many become too comfortable with it, and start becoming less judicious (a.k.a. "lazy") in its use. In so doing, they start losing the skills needed to think things through for themselves. There have already been multiple reports of doctors and experts in various fields losing their diagnostic and analytic skills due to this effect. Once a majority of the population loses this skill, they become far too easily manipulated into marching to their own doom.
Doesn't seem like you're familiar with the tools available in stuff like Ableton, the most popular DAW, or how the music industry works as a whole. And neither scenario is taking the human out of the creative process
No, I'm not. That said, your response isn't terribly illuminating as to how I might be wrong.
FWIW FL studio is the most popular daw for sure.
ProTools.
OP is. It's not clear that the author she blocked is. "Using AI" doesn't mean "having AI write for you". Plenty of authors just use it as a research aide or a sounding board. Plus, it's a great way to learn which phrases to never use again.
I've upvoted for having the bravery to speak the true possibilities in here, but I would say the odds are kinda strongly against what you suggest.
I'm writing something for for the first time doing exactly these things. It hasn't written one word for me, but it has suggested to me what words could maybe be better words if I can think of those words. (Editing advice, preliminary only, nothing meant to be final)
I really don't understand why they don't market it for these things instead of just writing for you.
The reason they don't market it that way is because the market they're trying to convince are the people that want to replace workers, and pretend this is the next industrial age that puts humans out of work. They want you to think it does all your writing for you, not that it assists you here and there.
That's what makes people invest the hardest, and it's the biggest lie they can sell for the most money. If you don't adopt AI, you'll be like a horse and carriage competing with trains! That's why every dumbass business owner is shoving AI down your throat. They believe there's a risk that you'll implode if you don't adopt it early. You'll stop being competitive.
They ignore the obvious wins we've taken advantage of, where people are like, "huh okay this might give me good advice sometimes if I take it with a grain of salt", and "actually it helped me storyboard my idea and find flaws before I even started writing", and "it actually helped me understand the history of the Ottoman empire and why they were like that, and that history can be reflected accurately in my novel now".
These are the rational use cases which people are discovering it's pretty helpful. But those rational use cases don't prove that it will replace the workers, so it's not sold as a tool. It's being sold as an eventual replacement for the working class. Businesses would be a hell of a lot more skeptical about spending $50k on Claude if they knew it didn't eventually mean laying off $500k in payroll. If it just means their workers are a little more efficient... Well fuck that, that doesn't save money.
It's going to take some time for shit to get normal. Investors will eventually learn they're losing money. Once they bubble bursts, eventually people will learn when it's useful and it'll be a bit more niche.
You could achieve the same thing with a thesaurus without burning the planet to a crisp.
Appreciate it. Also in fairness, I've definitely run into published books written by supposed specialists that are obviously 200 pages of AI prose (probably based on a 10 page essay).