I liked the slide going through how different subjects see writing. Since we are in an English class, we have been looking at AI and writing in that mindset. We have been focusing on AI and essays or creative writing, but haven’t really covered what it could look like for lab reports. Some people might find it helpful to organize the data they found, having the AI create the graphs for them. I never thought about that aspect, the other subjects, learning to write with AI, so I found that brief overview helpful to remind me that a lot of different writing exists.

I found the discussions very interesting. The idea of using AI for some writing and not others was great to listen to, and I wished I could jump into the conversation. Some people were saying to use AI for a skill you already have, for if you use it for skills you don’t have, you won’t learn those skills. This ties into the myth slide because AI doesn’t help teach anything. AI makes writing seem like a straight path because the AI can’t circle back. It doesn’t rewrite and rework on things, it gets rid of a lot of the writing process. There are no “lower tasks” in writing to avoid, it is all helpful to the process of getting the piece done and learning to be a better writer. Every time you have to circle back you are learning more about the piece and your writing, always becoming better, and AI gets rid of all that. When using AI, we just give a thing our thoughts, we don’t really work with it to better understand our thoughts or truly expand them.

All that helped further my “don’t use AI” mentality. There is nothing really for it to do, as everything is important in the writing process. We already discussed the need of a struggle to better yourself in other classes. Using AI for anything gets rid of that learning experience for yourself and you miss out on a chance to grow. It is like if you cheated in a video game to get something. Not only do you miss out on the experience, other people think you went through that struggle. They think you completed that challenge, have that skill, know a bit about the journey, have knowledge of completing the task, all that stuff. If you use AI for something you struggle with or don’t know how to do, you skip a lot of important steps and for what. You are just cheating yourself and making things harder down the road. You will keep using AI for that skill instead of learning it. And using it for a skill you do have isn’t much better. You have that skill. Use it. Show it off. Keep proving you can do it. Just because you have that skill now doesn’t mean you will always have it. You might forget it and need to relearn it, but if you keep using AI because you “have the skill”, you won’t anymore. AI will be doing that skill for you. You can’t practice or get better, or learn a different way of doing that task. It is better to just do it all yourself. You keep improving, you work on the skill, you have satisfaction doing the tasks yourself, and so on when you do the work yourself. Plus, I think it is a big screw you to the AI to not use it for writing. It is advertised as helping out with the tasks no one wants to do. But we are writers who want to write, so write. Don’t let the AI win in seeing writing as a thing no one wants to do. The “AI does the things no one wants to do” was brought up in the video, and someone made a good point of mentioning how that can backfire. It can help organize the students better, but then people won’t learn their students’ names. Even the work you don’t want to do has benefits. The boring work is important later, as it could do things like help you learn names.

Personally, I think AI and writing shouldn’t be a thing. It doesn’t really help at all. It prevents you from learning. So. Why even bother with it. Just let Cinnamon be his stupid self and keep your writing human.