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Your first draft isn’t an unoriginal idea expressed clearly; it’s an original idea expressed poorly, and it is accompanied by your amorphous dissatisfaction, your awareness of the distance between what it says and what you want it to say. That’s what directs you during rewriting, and that’s one of the things lacking when you start with text generated by an A.I.
✏️ Making an argument against using AI drafts as a starting off point.
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Not only are you depriving yourself of learning how to express ideas in the first place, you’re starting off with being given copies of ideas instead of whatever original thoughts you’re having.
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