On the Use of AI in Writing, and Why I Won’t Use It
Janus:
– 9 June 2025 –
Janus:
Not all reading material is the same. Some writing is merely informative, hopefully providing nothing but facts and maybe some useful analysis. We read it for utilitarian purposes. Then there is creative writing, which people read recreationally or for the fulfillment of more personal expressions, basically art.
Informative Writing
In the case of informative writing, who cares if AI wrote it, so long as the information is accurate? But that’s the trouble. The trend towards lazy AI-writing and the lazy people who read it already spreads unquestioned falsehoods. But then, the bad players and lazy writers who manually produce such materials without AI also spread errors and lies, so AI-writing really doesn’t matter much in these times.
Over time, as people steadily lose their connection to concrete, inherited knowledge (in book form or otherwise), facts will matter less and less so long as the prevailing narrative is upheld. Already the narrative trumps accuracy!
For those who prefer facts with at least some standards of proof, and without the taint of some kind of present-day ideological narrative, I recommend checking whatever garbage the system is spewing (AI or otherwise) against physical books or periodicals that were published before 2015; the older, the better, preferably. The more knowledge we have that is built on information spread across other times, when often the standards of accuracy were more rigorous than today’s standards, the better our instincts for sniffing out nonsense. Does the present-day information or narrative extend logically from the older knowledge?
This is like training people to detect counterfeit cash by handling real cash over and over; the counterfeits stand out, instinctively! And in a way, this is part of why the system pushes digital money! If you only have digital money, then the system has a monopoly on what money is. The authorities will say that digital money protects against counterfeiting and crime, but the real intent is to control and monitor how we spend every penny, for their ends! Likewise, if you only have digital information, the system monopolizes the information, and you only have access to knowledge they can monitor and control, again for their ends!
So use cash whenever possible, and keep collections of useful old books and periodicals, or at least keep offline copies of old books and periodicals! Anything online is subject to alteration after the fact, especially as AI continues to develop.
Creative Writing
Then there is creative writing, with its very different function and purpose.
Already many writers, some of whom I respect, are utilizing AI to write up raw material, so to speak, for them to tweak and expound upon. Raw writing is time-consuming and takes quite a bit of work. This is just the work of trying to throw words on a page to convey the general idea. If a writer can type up a summary prompt and have AI flesh it out as raw material, then afterward the “writer” can touch it up and personalize it, calling it their own writing. This can be done to a greater or lesser extent, but over time, as human nature would have it, the AI will tend to do more and more of the writing, and the increasingly out-of-practice writer will serve more and more as a mere editor. Maybe a significant number of readers won’t care about this, and maybe people won’t notice the difference. Maybe.
But as for me anyway, I do see patterns in this writing, as subtle as these patterns might be in many cases. Sometimes I merely suspect that AI is involved. But the writing seems flat or trite somehow. Even though it tries to imitate a certain style, rhythms of writing seem to follow the prevailing AI pattern. Again, this is like the analogy with the counterfeit cash: if you handle enough real cash, and you run across the same kinds of counterfeit tricks that break the pattern, then your instincts are sharpened against the fakes.
These patterns are more obvious in visual AI art. At first glance, the image seems real enough. But after a certain amount of exposure to made-up AI images, the art begins to show patterns in structure, lighting, clarity, and expression, like it was composed by the same artist or artists. Which it was!
As I mentioned before in the recent articles about fashion, people mindlessly follow fashion. If the fashion is to display a certain type of images, fashion also influences writers in a certain way. The styles may vary, but the structures and patterns will show similarities, based on the fashions. We can see fashion playing out in the writing styles of popular writers in any age, and we especially notice when the fashions are passé. But if AI is involved, those patterns show up in creative writing even more prominently. (Then, ironically, once people get used to reading AI literature, human writers will unconsciously imitate that artificial style according to the AI-fashion, which is also a potential problem in the future of creative writing.)
In any case, this is like the tranny phenomenon, as far as I’m concerned. When it comes to women, I don’t care if a man is completely passable as a woman, or if he even makes a convincing beautiful woman. If I suspect the possibility that it’s a man, then I will assume it’s a man, and have some measure of disgust, and reject that creature as a fake (even if she’s not!) I would rather err on the side of caution here, as I cannot interact the same way with a man dressed and painted up as a woman as I can with a real woman. I will admire a mediocre-looking woman whom I know to be real before I would ever admire a gorgeous woman whom I suspect could be a man.
To hammer this point further, this is also like the lab-grown meat phenomenon, or 3-D printed “meat.” Some people don’t care how they get their “protein,” so long as it tastes good enough. Common people instinctively reject this as creepy, even if the food somehow seems “real” enough, while mid-wits will stuff their faces with it and smugly proclaim that the source of their food doesn’t matter, that it tastes just fine to them. But these smart-people miss the larger picture, as they so often do.
Likewise, I don’t want to read creative writing that I even suspect was composed by a machine. I don’t care if the person who queried the AI wrote a wonderful template full of brilliant insights and ideas. To me, the writing is fake. Like a tranny. Like an Aleph Farms lab-grown “steak.”
This is more than simply a matter of personal taste or preference. There is an objective difference here, whether it’s our sexes, our food, or our writing and art. Reality and truth are essential to life! Authenticity matters objectively!
Art is communication between the artist and the audience. When I read the works of a writer, it is a real conversation between that writer and myself personally, even if that writer is long dead. I am giving up some of myself in the reading, and opening myself to hear what the writer is trying to say. The writer is giving up himself, and opening up his life, to me the reader. It is a relationship, with give and take. Over time, the relationship can become a kind of friendship based on trust and mutual connection.
AI-writing is like some asshole lip-syncing and hopping around on stage, pretending to play guitar in front of an audience while an old recording blares over the speakers. Who would pay to watch such a thing? But even then, at least there is a real, human fool involved. Would people pay to watch an AI-generated hologram of the same thing, like a 3-D screensaver?
I’m sure plenty of shallow retards won’t care, but I certainly won’t engage with this nonsense. It’s one thing to read mindless AI reports for utilitarian information. But I won’t spend the precious time to read creative writing that is composed by a computer. The connection to any supposed author is a sham. It’s not real communication from one human being to another. There is no true relationship. It’s a lie, and it’s dead.
My Own Writing
Likewise, in my own writing, I have never written with AI involved, and I never will. Never even for utilitarian purposes, like at work. First, because I haven’t lost the skill to write in the age of Twitter/X and ChatGPT, like so many other people have. And second, writing is personal, and it’s a matter of respect, to myself and to others. Then third, writing on a page or a screen is how I process life and information. It’s part of how I think things through.
I write on this site to process ideas and events, for my own sake. I also write as art, to express from my heart, mind, and spirit what I can only seem to express in this written form, whether the result is lousy or not. Moreover, I write because this is one of the few areas in this life where I can truly live free, by merely writing something in earnest. Finally, I write to honor a dear old friend.
I honestly don’t care if people read these things or not, or find these posts useful or interesting (though of course I enjoy when people appreciate the writing, or else I wouldn’t share it.) But the writing is real and honest communication from within myself, and with a potential reader; and true communication must flow entirely from my own voice, even in written form.
If my writing is fake, then it’s no good to me whatsoever, and I don’t think it’s much good for anyone else, either.
Conclusion
There is a connection and continuity to every aspect of life, a spiritual relationship back and forth. To a greater or lesser extent, certainly, but the connections exist.
In the present, nominalist times, we’re supposed to question the importance or existence of any kind of objective truth. We’re supposed to think that nothing matters in life but how we personally feel at the moment. We’re supposed to chase the sensations of pleasure and comfort, and feel content with subjective appearances. So long as we fit today’s narrative in this kind of life, then we’re living the dream, right? Floating like a cloud of vapor across the sky.
But it’s all bullshit. And even if we have lost our souls and our attention spans to these lies, our very bones know better. Our very blood cries out in rejection. Our spirits scream under their dissonance.
Which is why the system keeps prescribing you pill after pill, and opening dispensary after dispensary.
Our spirits resonate in response to truth, beauty, and the Divine order. Likewise, our spirits wilt under lies, ugliness, and chaos. Even babies who can’t speak understand these things.
The modern era would detach our minds and hearts from our spirits and bodies. Our minds can fall prey to delusions and lies, but our spirits and bodies know better.
These are not questions of mere taste or fashion. Whether it’s AI “art,” human perversion, or fake meat, the spiritual connections are real. They exist outside of ourselves, with real-life consequences.