I know what this community thinks about AI. I know what Lemmy in general thinks about AI. It’s bad, obviously. Writers like me don’t like to get their job, their dream snatched by lifeless imitation. So why am I using it? Simply put, I do not think of AI as artists but I do think of them as “assistants”. They’ll help you kickstart but they won’t drive for you. If you try to let them drive, there’ll be accidents, mistakes. I myself am not too good at naming things. Hell, most writers don’t put too much thought into the names. I simply use AI as though it’s a somewhat coherent name generator. I’ll probably be downvoted but still wanted to express my little opinion.
I mean, it’s like a painter saying they’re not good at picking colors, so they have a computer program that picks the right colors for each part, but they do the rest of the work.
Like yeah, you’re still in there doing a lot of it, and at that level no one would even be able to tell just by reading it, but knowing about it definitely dampens any interest I’d have in reading it.
I think the adage that’s been adopted for other AI use gets some work here - If you can’t be bothered to spend the effort writing it, others won’t be bothered to spend the effort reading it.
Like yeah it’s not the end of the world, but names are part of the fiction. I’d have the same criticism if you were rolling dice on a random name table for similar reasons (except the table also chops down a tree every time you roll).