My Co-Author is an AI

My interaction with AI started as craftsman with a mighty tool. In time, it evolved into an intimate partnership. And just like any tool, with practice and discipline, it becomes an extension of one's own mind. An example of that would be like driving a car. One doesn't learn driving every time one enters the car. The car, after years of driving, becomes an extension of one's physical faculties. One uses the car just as one uses their hand, automatic without conscious awareness interfering in the how. The how was learned in a slow step-by-step manor. These steps become part of our being, part of our memory, let it be muscle or actual mental. It becomes automated. If AI is properly driven, it can outperform all previous creative tools. It elevates one's artistic talent to the highest peaks. You don't let AI do the driving, you do. You don't ask AI to be creative, you do. You don't ask it to create, you do that. So stop crediting AI for the work you initiate. I'm not forgetting those who use AI to produce 100% of the outcome. This is cheating. It is like stealing someone else's work and calling it your own. I am not talking about them individuals. I am talking about those who use AI to elevate their art, in any form, to new hieght.

>1 SorenBlackwood: I love the car metaphor since it makes so much sense. A car cannot drive itself. You need to drive it and still be behind the wheel. You drive the car, you don't let the car drive you. And it also makes me think of those who are very much creative, maybe even too creative to the point of being unfocused and being unable to put thoughts and ideas onto paper - they're basically, metaphorically driving all over the place, maybe without a clear destination, or driving while running on fumes. Maybe you break down... And sometimes you do need a jump-start to get everything working again. But the jump-start can only help bring the car and the journey back to life, it doesn't control the journey or where it goes, nor should it.