Thanks for reading the article and leaving this nice comment, Sara! It was a fun post to write, and I’m delighted it made you laugh! 😃

Hi, Audrey! I’m so glad you’ve found my info to be useful!

If you haven’t already looked at it, you’ll find even more info and resources on my site NarratorsRoadmap.com, THE destination for narrators of all levels!

I apologize for the delay in posting your comment. I was on a research trip for the non-fiction book I am writing.

Best wishes for your success and happiness as you step into a new level of your destiny!

Karen

Hi, Janet! Thanks so much for the note! I alluded to those dangers in the article, but it’s important to speak precisely about them.

I actually didn’t know how much water is lost or about the chemical that can’t be processed in waste treatment plants. These environmental and community impacts are much worse than I knew.

I’m full of admiration for your being such a strong and informed activist! Your information makes the dilemma a no-brainer in choosing not to use generative AI.

Thanks for your help!

Karen

Hi, Dani! Thanks for the kind words!

Dinogami in the comment above is willing to use assistive AI but refuses to utilize generative AI due to its unethical nature. I’m drawing my line in the sand at the same place.

As you, I, and countless others have discovered, assistive AI often is wildly incorrect. I’ve been astonished to see how much is wrong in a simple transcription from typeset material!

Thanks again for sharing your thoughts!

Karen

Hi, Peter! Thanks so much for the note!

I do have a subscription to Storyblocks. It’s much better for video and audio than graphics, in part because its search isn’t finely tuned.

I also have Camtasia Assets, which uses Shutterstock. Unfortunately, Camtasia doesn’t have access to all of the Shutterstock images, and naturally the ones I want aren’t included.

I’d have to pay for the Shutterstock images. Obviously, I’m trying to avoid that possibility!

I agree about the plastic look of many AI images.

Thanks again, and have a wonderful weekend!

Karen

Hi, Dinogami! Thank you so much for sharing your thoughtful summation!

You’ve fortified my objections to generative AI, especially in your penultimate sentence when you asked who is creating the pressure to use an unethical tool and stands to gain from it.

After I published the article, I told my husband that images generated in MS Copilot may look good and save me time and money. However, expediency is not a reason to betray my ethics and integrity.

Your decision to use assistive AI tools but NEVER use generative AI is admirable and encourages me to follow your lead!

Thanks again!

Karen

The AI stuff, to me, looks like AI stuff. Lots of people use it. I don’t care for it. I find much of it has a ‘plastic’ look to it.

I am just one lone voice in the wilderness and I imagine the majority of your audience (any audience) will not really know the difference or care much one way or the other. Perhaps people are just coming to expect it.

Peter