{"id":556904,"date":"2026-03-31T21:25:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T21:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/556904\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T21:25:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T21:25:20","slug":"go-ahead-and-use-ai-it-will-only-help-me-dominate-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/556904\/","title":{"rendered":"Go Ahead and Use AI. It Will Only Help Me Dominate You."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>By all means\u2014continue. (Photo: Getty)<\/p>\n

Recently there has been a lot of commentary of the following type: <\/p>\n

BAD WRITER [touchily]: \u201cActually, I do use AI to help me write.\u201d <\/p>\n

Okay. That checks out. Carry on. <\/p>\n

Want to use AI as a Valuable Part of Your Writing Process? Want to use it to \u201cgenerate pushback on my column thesis<\/a>\u201d and be \u201cmore comprehensible<\/a>\u201d and \u201ccraft unique angles<\/a>\u201d and offer \u201cpositive and negative feedback<\/a>\u201d and \u201cscale the quantity<\/a>\u201d of your \u201coutput?\u201d <\/p>\n

Knock yourself out. <\/p>\n

You have my blessing. <\/p>\n

Hey buddy\u2014 go for it!<\/p>\n

Some in the \u201creal writer\u201d community find this sort of rampant outsourcing of the writing process to AI to be distressing. Not me. Would I do it myself? No. I have self-respect. But I want to tell you, my friends, that you have my full support for all of it. Want to throw your dashed-off notes into ChatGPT and have it spit a draft back at you and then edit that and call it your own? Want to toss a few hastily written headlines at Claude and have it generate the outline of your piece? Want to dump your entire career archives into a chatbot and then order it to replicate your own voice so you don\u2019t have to? <\/p>\n

Do you, a grown man, a successful professional writer who has received a book deal paying you real US currency, want to use AI for the purpose of \u201cmaking sure<\/a> the book matches [your own] writing style\u201d[???]? Guess what, brother: I support you. I affirm you. I am right here offering you a classic thumbs-up gesture of affirmation.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhoa, a writer who I have never regarded as particularly inventive is using AI? I am surprised and disappointed.\u201d There\u2019s a sentence I would never utter. Instead, I would accept the news of your AI use with total equanimity, nodding almost imperceptibly to indicate that this is not something worth raising my eyebrows over. <\/p>\n

No, I will not be joining in the chorus of condemnation. On the contrary. If you are a professional writer, I want you to use AI. Because this industry is competitive. I\u2019ll take any advantage I can get. And if you want to make your writing suck, that\u2019s all the better for me. One less person outshining me.<\/p>\n

The tepid, conformist nature of your AI-assisted prose will only make my unexpected bons mots stand out more sharply. While you lean on a technological crutch of grammatical mediocrity to drag your essays over the finish line, I\u2019ll be metaphorically zipping past you on my \u201cmagic carpet\u201d of words emerging directly from my own declining and unpredictable brain. Over time, the intellectual box into which AI has seduced your creative process will suffocate you, leaving your bereft readers little choice but to drift into my subscription base. <\/p>\n

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You\u2019ll be all, \u201cPolitics in America is divided\u2014but it doesn\u2019t have to be. Let\u2019s discuss how to bridge the partisan divide.\u201d Your sense of joy at the possibilities of the English language will have been so eroded that you won\u2019t even understand why that sucks shit. Meanwhile I\u2019ll be dropping some wild similes you could never even imagine. \u201cPolitics is like a sea slug.\u201d What?? How?? Readers will flock to me to find out. Too bad your AI editor struck that line from your piece as \u201cindecipherable.\u201d <\/p>\n

You and your friend \u201cClaude\u201d wouldn\u2019t last two seconds in my cipher. <\/p>\n

Maybe you read the studies about how AI use causes \u201ccognitive surrender<\/a>\u201d that slowly destroys your ability to think critically about the linguistic cud that the machine is serving you. Or about how it causes \u201ccognitive foreclosure<\/a>\u201d that prevents you from ever developing the skills to critique AI output even if you wanted to. Maybe these studies give you pause, when you think about introducing these inscrutable tools of mental paralysis into your own creative process. <\/p>\n

Don\u2019t worry about it!<\/p>\n

Life is hard enough already. You\u2019re busy. You have lots of things to do\u2014laundry, making lunch, and more. The last thing you need is a bunch of jealous (Brooklyn hipster) writers lecturing you about how this magical productivity booster is somehow \u201cbad\u201d for you. Those are probably the same haters who told you to stop doing so much crystal meth. Some people can\u2019t stand to see you succeed!<\/p>\n

I just checked a calendar\u2014it\u2019s 2026. AI is here to stay and you might as well beat the rush by using it more and more, right? Right. In the name of efficiency, it just makes sense for you to turn over ever greater portions of your thought process to this seductive helper, never stopping to ask yourself what it is costing you. You are a nice person and your job (writing) deserves to be easy. There, there. Allow yourself to sink into the warm opiate of cerebral ease. This is better. Yes. This is much better. <\/p>\n

By all means\u2014proceed. <\/p>\n

And then, when you have settled into this comfortable pattern, sit back and watch me unsheath my massive, work-hardened intellect, built to staggering strength through a daily regimen of thinking about stuff. I think you\u2019ll find that your panicked efforts to resist my onslaught will prove unsuccessful, hampered as you are by atrophied muscles of the mind. Ask your AI companion for some final words of comfort. The hour of your doom draws near. <\/p>\n

I will crush you with ease. <\/p>\n

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