Defending AI-Assisted Writing

Vanity | October 4, 2025 | CIB-173RDABN

[spintreebob]

There are indisputable facts: The county a city is in is a good example the AI often gets wrong
There are opinions we all agree on: Hitler was a NAZI.
There are opinions presented as fact on which there is disagreement: Charlie Kirk was a NAZI.
Opposition to DEI is racism.
This last example illustrates the most common error. AI
accepts SPLC as authoritative and thus fact. This occurs in far more than politics. Ask AI questions about which computer language or database or OS is best and the result is opinion, not fact. The same with comparing cars or sport teams.

[minnesota_bound]

Google AI mode: write a one page story beginning with: it was a dark and stormy night

It was a dark and stormy night. The wind rattled the loose pane of glass in the attic window, a persistent, hollow sound that had become the unofficial metronome of the old house. Inside, by the dying embers of the fireplace, a young woman named Ellen sat, clutching a tattered book. Rain lashed against the windows like a desperate entity seeking entry, and every crack of thunder sent a jolt of anxiety through her. The isolation she had so craved since inheriting her reclusive great-aunt’s home had curdled into a palpable dread.

A floorboard creaked in the hall above. Ellen’s heart pounded a frantic rhythm against her ribs. She told herself it was just the house settling, the wind playing tricks. But this old house had never been one for simple tricks. It had a way of whispering in the dark, of turning shadows into fleeting shapes. Her great-aunt, a woman of peculiar habits and even more peculiar stories, had always claimed the house was a keeper of secrets, not merely a dwelling.