On writing with AI

If you've not been living under a rock for the past year, it's very prominent how much of the news cycle revolves around AI these days. It's surely exciting but also a scary thing to witness as these LLMs get pretty good at things like knowledge work, programming, etc. Amongst the people I've interacted with, some are very much pro-AI while there are others who abhore the entire infrastructure behind it. I'm in neither camp and prefer to keep a more pragmatic stance on the subject. Of course, there are multiple ethical concerns regarding AI usage: how these datacenters are causing water, land shortages in addition to increasing global temperatures, and how it's okay for the AI companies to train their models on copyrighted material but if a human does it, it's a criminal offense[1]. I also hate how frontier AI companies like OpenAI and Anthropic have a huge power on dictating how AI should be regulated (a major reason being that they're simply afraid of open-weight models coming out…