I hate when I get hoodwinked into reading a story written by ChatGPT. I’d appreciate it if those users left a disclaimer stating it was written or edited with AI. Most of the time, I can catch it because it loves purple prose and reuses many of the same phrases. I don’t mind people using it as an editing tool, or if the user proofreads the work. Hell, when I remember, I use it as a research tool for work and to create internal how-to guides for reference. I used other resources to fact-check and proofread. However, I do have an issue with people using AI to write an entire book and then passing it off as their own. In good conscience, I cannot call a person who prompts ideas or general plot into ChatGPT a writer, an author, or a storyteller. I refer to that person as a prompter — it accurately encapsulates what the person does. It would be an insult to the people who spend hours, days, or however long typing out page after page in their own voice.
Heck, a lot of those AI-generated stories don’t make any sense, contradict what was said, and confuse details! The worst part is when the “prompter” doesn’t bother to proofread before posting the story. Adding insult to injury, they don’t address it when you call it out.
On the flip side, I guess it’s good that people can finally see the stories in their get
created and sort of express themselves in some fashion.
Full disclosure, I used Grammarly to edit this post for grammar.