Thanks for your opinion Professor Schwartz. I am a real writer who reads every comment.

I used to share your views about AI. Permit me to be so bold, but these do sound like the opinions of someone who has not used generative AI much and has simply experimented with it a few times or who gets their opinions from others.

I also admit that I never conceived of using AI for imaginative writing — many of the comments from enraged fiction writers who perhaps did not conceived that I have used it as an assist for technical writing, and this was to assist fellow marketers in SEO actions.

Like any new program, language models have a very long way to go, and troubleshooting is of great importance (a blog subject that I could write about, though it’s unfair to expect me to write about every aspect of a AI in a single blog). In fact, they can only register and return data given to them in the past. But to completely dismiss AI because one program has quirks or errors is as erroneous as dismissing the calculator, e-mail or Google when they first arrived. They had lots of issues then too.

Let me ask you this — if a student had this exact reaction to a subject you wanted them to learn and you knew could benefit them — what would you respond to them?