I'm surprised (and not surprised) by how many people use AI for making/ writing anything. Kind of amazing how quickly its becoming common use. Like bottled water and cell phones. Almost overnight "everyone" uses them.

AI is great for mass producing/ marketing but pretty useless for any real information. AI just repeats what it finds and has no sense of what is safe, real, harmful, factual, true etc. Of course nothing original or unique comes from an AI - it can't.

Plus, it doesn't have to care. In writing its a sure sign of someone out to make a buck and not caring what slop they publish. I'd consider AI for making a website, the mechanics of putting a site together, but not for images I add. Those would just be copied from someone else without them knowing. I haven't tried it for a site yet.

I won't use AI for one single word I write. I write for myself, and anyone else who wanders by, but mainly I want to write - me, my voice, my thoughts, my responsibility.

If an AI writes for you - you have no voice and you likely think using an AI is an excuse should something you write be questioned. "I didn't write it, the AI did, I'm blameless". I wonder how long that will work for people using an AI.

• odd, strange, or unusual noises
• lights turning off or on by themselves
• things are moving when they shouldn't be
• some things disappear or can't be found
• shadows that don't match the surroundings
• weird symbols or writing
• animals are sensitive to something unseen
• children or pets react to people only they can see
• something touches you but nothing is there
• unexplained cold spots

Does this list worry you, or do you feel like writing a great horror story about a spooky old house now?

Non-fiction writers are not praised and remembered the way fiction writers are. Yet, it is important to have both.

From a grocery list, a technical manual, a journal/ biography, an editorial, self-help/ how-to, text book, legal document, recipe, or a political speech, they write about reality. As do fiction writers in their way. But people would rather read the truth with the idea of it being fiction. Rather than reading about the truth, cold, hard plain, facts. People don't really want to know the truth when it isn't what they want to hear.

So fiction is celebrated and honoured while non-fiction sits on a shelf getting dusty, if noticed at all.

I wonder if fiction could exist without non-fiction? How would fiction writers find all their facts to spin into stories if it weren't for those non-fiction writers keeping track of the world?