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The Fear Of AI Just Killed A Very Useful Tool (www.techdirt.com)
submitted 1 year ago by stopthatgirl7@kbin.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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I do understand why so many people, especially creative folks, are worried about AI and how it’s used. The future is quite unknown, and things are changing very rapidly, at a pace that can feel out…

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[–] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago

This doesn’t make anything from it, though. It gives you word counts, like how much passive voice was used and how many -ly adverbs. There’s nothing unique created from it.

That’s honestly the issue being pointed out here - people see “AI” and have knee jerk reactions, without seeing how is being used here. I’m completely against AI being used to make “art” or do writing, but that’s not what what this tool did at all. But folks assumed it did.