What exactly is the AI supposed to be doing in this scenario?

TMoney2007 said:

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What exactly is the AI supposed to be doing in this scenario?

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Make something borderline unreadable with many factual errors is my guess.

BartInLA said:

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I want to write a pamphlet or a book between 100-200 pages on psychiatric topics. I will clean it up, put the human touch on it, and include non identifying cases I've had in the past 25 years.
I'm looking at SudoWrite this afternoon with a seven day trial.

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You do understand that it would be completely ethically unjustifiable to release those 100-200 pages without thoroughly checking every single statement in them for accuracy and plagiarism, right?

If you're going to do your due diligence, you should just be an author instead of pretending to be an author. AI has no generalized intelligence. It is a word guesser that uses other people's work to pick out words that sound like words that make sense.

It has no sense of truth or integrity. It has no respect for copyrights or journalistic or academic ethics. The best large language model predictive AI in the world says things that are untrue like 40% of the time. Lawyers have gotten sanctioned because it cites legal cases that don't exist in the briefs that it writes. Its not a magic button... its a machine that someone has preloaded with garbage so you can get garbage out of it quickly and easily.

If you have something to contribute to your profession, awesome. Write a book. What you are describing isn't "writing a book"...

This guy is basically an AI bot looking for tips to forward to authorities

The guy who keeps asking for free (illegal) ways to watch movies and television wants to use AI to do his writing? Fascinating!

BartInLA said:

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TMoney2007, you make good points. I could run the paper through a plagiarism software. The Harvard president told me not to worry about it.
I guess I just want it to help me create an outline. I used "Turn It In" when teaching and it was incredible. It used multiple colors and gave the source. One student plagiarized 2 or 3 full pages word for word with no citations. It was obvious when the quality of the paper changed dramatically.

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I shouldn't be surprised that someone with your ideology wants to go for the intellectually dishonest and lazy short cut. Running it through plagiarism software and changing words until it no longer triggers the program doesn't actually cure the plagiarism in the same way that using common strings of words to describe unique ideas isn't plagiarism at all.

Here's the difference: You want to pay a software company to vomit out BS to fill out a trash book that doesn't contain any of your own ideas and more than likely absolutely no new and unique ideas at all. If it does a bad job and literally copies the words and ideas of other people, you want to rephrase the other people's ideas until the software can no longer detect the content that you have stolen and passed off as your own. Whether it passes through plagiarism software without triggering anything or not, you are taking work that is not yours and pretending that it is your work.

Taking your own thoughts and research and using strings of words that are similar to the strings of words that other people have used is not plagiarism. I'm explaining this to you because I'm taking a wild guess that you haven't actually read a single one of the passages that supposedly contains plagiarism.

You want AI to tell you what the structure of your book should be? Do you actually have anything to say or do you just want to be seen to have "written a book"? Figure out a purpose for your book. Create a structure that serves that purpose. Create prose that fills out that structure and further defines the purpose. This is commonly referred to as "writing a book"... These are not things that large language models can do.

Like I said, you probably do have experience that would be valuable to others. You seem to have the inclination to share it and that's good. What you seem to lack is the willingness to put even a tiny bit of actual intellectual labor into the endeavor. You want a program to tell you what your book should contain. Then you want a program to create BS to fill out the hundreds of pages of the book outline that it created for you. Then you want to launder it using another program so it isn't obvious that you are passing off this BS as your own. Then you want to add case studies. Then you want to put your name on it like you wrote the whole thing.

Learn how to write a book. Pay a human being to help you develop a concept... and then write a book. At the very least, it will be worth the effort you put into it. You seem to only want to put in whatever the subscription fee is for the various programs you intend to use to be unethical. If that's all you want to put into it, just don't do it. Buy a paperback from Half Priced Books and paste your picture and name on the cover and pretend you wrote it... Put it on your shelf where people can see it. It'll represent the same contribution to society.