We also want to be clear in our belief that the categorical condemnation of Artificial Intelligence has classist and ableist undertones, and that questions around the use of AI tie to questions around privilege."

  • Classism. Not all writers have the financial ability to hire humans to help at certain phases of their writing. For some writers, the decision to use AI is a practical, not an ideological, one. The financial ability to engage a human for feedback and review assumes a level of privilege that not all community members possess.
  • Ableism. Not all brains have same abilities and not all writers function at the same level of education or proficiency in the language in which they are writing. Some brains and ability levels require outside help or accommodations to achieve certain goals. The notion that all writers “should“ be able to perform certain functions independently or is a position that we disagree with wholeheartedly. There is a wealth of reasons why individuals can’t “see” the issues in their writing without help.
  • General Access Issues. All of these considerations exist within a larger system in which writers don’t always have equal access to resources along the chain. For example, underrepresented minorities are less likely to be offered traditional publishing contracts, which places some, by default, into the indie author space, which inequitably creates upfront cost burdens that authors who do not suffer from systemic discrimination may have to incur.

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    I can see this as a method for a starting point. I’d consider that analogous to getting inspiration from reading a book. And while I understand the sentiment behind this, it’s not really that simple. This argument makes a lot more sense when you ignore the fact that it’s stealing from other people. And not just the works of famous authors and writers, but from everyone. If AI made up everything from thin air and didn’t need to steal from everyone to make it work I would 100% be on board. If being against stealing other people’s work and passing it off as your own is ableist and classist, by that argument so is being against things like identity theft or stealing someone’s credit card.