Jamie Metzl

So that's a headway.

I love doing conversations with you and others trying to explain this because I think we have a future where one part of our future is going to be humans and our AIs collaborating to create things that humans couldn't create alone and our AI couldn't.

couldn't create alone.

We get this in healthcare because if somebody is getting their whole genome sequenced, it's not like you're thinking, my doctor's screwing me over because I want him just to print out all these letters, look at them and say, oh, here's the problem.

So we're going to have to figure this out.

But coming back to your question, I feel like I'm a beneficiary in a way, but I feel like now people are so pissed off.

People haven't

begun to differentiate between really creative work.

Like there's a LA-based artist named Refik Anadol who does some really amazing work with AI.

And it's amazing work that he couldn't do alone and AI couldn't do alone.

And on the other hand, are like high school kids cheating on their term papers.

And that's like a big mush now.

And so it's made the process a little bit tough of getting the word out.

If I had done what many people assume is just pressing the button, the book would be the shittiest book on earth.

AI is a terrible book.

And people feel like it's good, but what I tell everybody is if you're just pressing the AI button, the thing you are getting is the total average of crap.

And so if you're the world's worst writer and you're getting the total of average of crap, that's actually pretty good compared to where you started.

But if you're somebody for whom, like me, writing is part...

of the way I express my truths with the world.

So when I had the full draft, then I went through, I cut 40% right away.