SOME THOUGHTS.. You may or may not know this about me...

I love writing. I love words. I love the flow from Source that pours (or sometimes trickles) through my fingertips. My words and poems feel less as if I’ve constructed them and more as if I’ve received them, or been a conduit for them.

When I’m in the flow, it’s like lovemaking.

I also love reading what other writers write.

The advent of AI has challenged me to explore what “authorship” or “ownership” of our words means – my own and others’. In a personal, not a legal sense.

ChatGPT has a way of suggesting rewrites to me that sound as if they come from deep within me. Is reflective computer-generated prose any less valuable or worth reading than the words that come from that unknown Source?

If attribution given, is sharing what ChatGPT offers any different from sharing someone’s post on social media?

I’m bothered when attribution is NOT given. (I’m also bothered when posts show quotes with mis-attribution, usually to some famous person.)

Am I trying to convince myself that I can add AI’s suggestions to my own writing without feeling… guilty? I'm curious what y'all think as we navigate this new "source.."

PS: The words above came "through me" (from "Source?") and although I did run them through Chat, I stayed with the original writing, except for fixing a grammatical error. Are they therefore more "mine?"

PPS: The image was free, I don't know who to credit. And yes, words have power. That could be something else to write about!

xo

Dhyana