Writing with AI

I wrote my previous blog - parenting post with AI assistance. I’ve been using AI for coding, preparing bids and presentations for a while which is what led me down the chain of logic in the post. This is first time since University (where I studied Mathematics & Philosophy) I’ve tried to write an argued philosophical argument, so I tried using AI to help. My observations * It was very helpful refining the argument and being a sounding board * I wrote the article originally as bullets * Using the AI we jointly refined the logical flow * It provided critique and help me hone the flow and focus on the key points * It was less helpful writing the text, I tried * Having it create a style guide from my other blog posts - so it uses my style (a trick that works for presentations) * Allowing it to write the longer article from the bullets * However it wrote a very verbose, academic article - that really was a long way from something I’d write (or enjoy reading) * I ended up having to repeatidly tell it to correct items, and improve the style guide. This did work - but it was a painful process. Reflecting on this - the AI is training on philosophical arguments from books, and when it saw one it wrote in that style despite my instructions. It took a lot of prompting to guide it back to what I wanted. I think I got most value when working with the bullets, refining the argument, wheras writing the full prose was just too wordy.