Twisted Leaf Editing & Our Stance on AI
It sucks. Rant incoming, I apologise in advance.
Plain and simply, AI "writing" is unethical, it is causing witch hunts within the writing community and quite frankly, if you as an AI "writer" / "artist" wanted to complete the task of creating something such as prose or poems or art, then you would have picked up a pen or pencil long ago.
"But I'm disabled and I need the tools." There are plenty of tools out there for disabled artists / writers. There's audio-dictation, I've seen people paint with their feet or their mouths. Artists create their own way in the world, they create their own tools and work-flow along the way. (For the purposes of clarity, spell-check has been around for decades, and is not classed as AI use).
"But AI is a good tool." No. No it isn't. It's paying a bootlegger for their copy of Shrek 6 (which at the time of writing this, does not exist). The AI mostly being used is generative AI, or LLMs (Language Learning Models) to use the scientific jargon. The same AI that was scraping and being fed with stolen works. What it's pumping out is slop that was mish-mashed together from works that it took without permission and you can even search for what was stolen: here, and here. Inspiration is good, until it's plagiarism. And friends, AI is a thief with no original ideas.
"It doesn't harm anyone." I am a firm supporter of our natural world and the resources that AI datacentres take away from us is abhorrent. Including from our own brains.
That all being said, our stance on AI is simple: human hands create human works for human consumption. Why should editing be automated by a machine? I edit proudly by hand, because your work should be treated with the same gentleness as handling a new-born baby.
