Have you ever had a four-year-old passionately explain how you don’t understand their point, and sadly look at you like you’re a toddler? With a glimmer of hope they turn to the other parent, hoping for better results.

Yesterday, I was attempting to read an article about AI brainstorming from a reputable source. The passionate justification for using AI in any facet of creative writing was completely lost on me.

My thoughts kept returning to if a person is able to create a functional prompt, why can’t they create real content; something original and authentic? Maybe the person wants to be a real writer to the degree they are willing to humiliate themselves as a pretend writer.

Just because I can use a calculator doesn’t make me a physicist. Just because I can drive a stick shift sports car doesn’t make me an INDY 500 driver. Just because a person can use AI to put words on paper doesn’t make them a creative writer. AI has not ever had an original creative thought, not once.

“If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.” W. Somerset Maugham, 1938. Maybe more direct, “Even if forty million people believe in a dumb idea, it is still a dumb idea.” United Technologies Corporation, 1992.

Writers write. Period. Full stop.

Don’t be tempted. Cactus Rain Publishing uses AI detection software on submissions.