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As a writer, sometimes an idea or curiosity just pops into my awareness. Suddenly there’s something there that I want to explore, ponder, and think more about, something that wasn’t there a few moments before, or maybe was there in seed form but had yet to bloom. When this remarkable event happens, my habit for decades has been to take a walk with the idea, to live with it and let it marinate in me, become what it needs to become. I do my part by thinking about it, and I simultaneously get out of the way and let the mysterious energy that is creativity do its part; I allow the spark of curiosity to grow into a fire, which, truth be told, sometimes happens and sometimes doesn’t. Once my own ideas have had time to germinate and bloom a bit, I might look to external sources for other ways to think about the topic, and gather more information from writings and research that already exists.

How AI Alters the Writer's Creative Process

What I’ve noticed, however, is that artificial intelligence (AI) has a sneaky capacity to alter the creative process in subtle but profound ways. The creative process, that of accompanying and nurturing—riding an idea from embryo to birth—has the potential to be infiltrated and already is being infiltrated by AI, and as a result, fundamentally changed. In my own writing, as soon as I allowed AI into the process, even in a small way, my creative process started to change, and as a result, my work was changing. But it wasn’t just the contents and focus of........

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