For the record

Here's my personal opinion on Gen-AI:
I don't like Gen-AI. I hate to see it. I wish it didn't exist.

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In conclusion:
I don't like Gen-AI. I hate to see it. I wish it didn't exist.

In this haunted vampire castle we support human writers

While doing research on plague doctors, I recently found an old self-published book (this one here) whose author essentially drove around Germany while spending the night at various castles and taking amateur photos. The writing isn't great to begin with, and the book is filled with typos and formatting errors.

But honestly, I think that's charming. This one goth nerd's weird labor of love is worth an infinite number of AI-generated books with perfect grammar and stylistic organization. And let me tell you. Amazon sure is gloated with an infinite number of AI-generated books these days, many of which are travel guides filled with what I can only assume is hallucinated misinformation. I'm now starting to see AI-generated writing appear in academic articles as well, and I'm not feeling great about it.

As someone with ADHD who's been bullied for being "lazy" about my writing, I have to admit that this is actually kind of validating. Like sure, my work might have an occasional typo or mistaken homophone or awkward bit of phrasing, but at least you can be sure it was written by a human.