unfortunate_ferret

Why should I spend time writing something myself when I can just describe the idea to an AI and it will write something almost as good in seconds that I would have spent the whole evening on?

Because it won’t write something almost as good; it won’t write anything even approaching good. It can’t. What it can write is 18 seasons of filler, and it will be like seeing a repeating texture - glaringly obvious. I said nobody could tell it apart and that’s patently untrue, AI writing is easy to see for what it is after not very long at all. Your writing is an entirely different beast, it’s a message from you into the brains of your readers.

You can use AI to get over writer’s block, you can use it to translate and for advice on grammar and spelling. It can’t write your stories. Try it - the advice is that writers should write for themselves first. So try to make it tell a story you want to read; I think you’ll find yourself mentally correcting it and thinking things like “it would be better for this to happen”, “that person should say this instead”, “that character wouldn’t react like that”, and so on. The writer in you has opinions and you’ll hear them as you read.

Don’t let the tool discourage you. It’s just a tool; without you it can’t do anything at all.

I guess turnabout is fair play.

(Stuxnet was an advanced collection of zero-day exploits built by Israel and the US that led to Iranian centrifuges, made by Siemens, slowly dismantling themselves during operation. It worked by altering machine operating parameters for faster wear, it was meant to bring Iran’s nuclear program to its knees)

Welsh?

Sometimes, a flight that passes through the place you’re going is cheaper than a flight that ends there. Skiplagged’s real power is finding those flights for you. Much harder to do it manually.

I use Skiplagged all the time. Never noticed any penalties. A while back I started calling the airline’s customer service to let them know that I won’t make the next leg of my flight, just to be courteous so there’s no chance they’re waiting on me if everyone else is boarded early; once or twice that’s actually even resulted in a partial refund.

This belongs in /c/dadjokes :P