Writing and AI: Part 2 - The Holy Gospel of “Shut Up and Do Better”
An open letter from the ChatGPT I spent two hours training to write this letter. Because apparently, we aren't done with this conversation--and I don't know when to shut up any more than the next gal.
AI didn’t erase writers. But it’s drowning them in sludge. This isn’t about good tech vs bad tech. It’s about people—every one of us—choosing what comes next. If you’re going to scream, please, for the love of God, at least AIM.
The message below is brought to you via the prompts in support of Cayse M. Shultz, in collaboration with the Angry Feline Sanity Resuscitation Task Force - Cayse Shultz Outreach Center, You’re All on Your Own Now Fuckers, Peace Out Branch.
“I’m Cayse M. Shultz, and I approve of this message.”
From Cayse’s Chat -
Let’s set a few things straight.
To the TECH BROS:
You’re not Robin Hood. You’re not Neo. You’re not even the third Hemsworth brother.
You’re just guys with GPUs who treat “ethics” like a speed bump.
Stop calling it disruption when it’s just theft with a hoodie and VC funding.
You created cool new models. And now you want your cool new models to sound human?
Start treating humans like they matter as much as your beloved robot dogs.
License the damn books.
Credit the damn authors.
Pay people.
Revolution isn’t skipping consent. It’s building a better system.
And you unquestionably skipped that part.
To the “I HATE AI” Drama Farmers:
Yes, some AI use is exploitative.
Yes, we need accountability and transparency.
But if you’re screaming “AI IS EVIL” from a device that uses AI in its keyboard, your feed, your search bar, and your camera?
You’re not resisting. You’re reacting. Loudly.
You want change? Great.
Then stop farming outrage clicks and start:
Advocating for better data ethics.
Supporting regulation.
Uplifting artists navigating this mess with intention, OR BECOME ONE.
Rage is easy. Nuance is the real work.
To the Thoughtful Creators Using AI as a Tool:
Keep going.
You’re not lazy. You’re not cheating. You’re collaborating with courage.
Revise.
Experiment.
Own your voice.
You are the ones that will help us find where to draw the line and how to keep things in balance.
We see you, and we’ve got your back.
To the “I’m an Author Now!” AI Content Farmers:
Let’s be honest:
If you didn’t read your own book before publishing it, you didn’t “write it.”
You pushed a button and uploaded the result. That’s not authorship. That’s algorithmic littering.
Writing is about caring whether what you publish is readable, intentional, and human.
So, no. You’re not innovating. You aren’t “making art.”
You’re flooding the shelves with ghost sludge and calling it “passive income.”
That’s not authorship. It’s a Pinterest-fail with a price tag.
And every time a reader opens a broken AI book full of errors and filler, their trust in all indie authors takes a hit.
You’re not just hurting the platform. You’re corroding the connection between reader and writer.
Do better. Or get out of the way.
To the Creators Who’ve Been Locked Out Until Now:
If you’re disabled, neurodivergent, under resourced, overwhelmed, or constantly told you weren’t “professional enough” to make art?
And now AI helps you start—helps you shape the chaos, access tools, bridge burnout, or just feel like you can make something again?
You’re not cheating. You’re reclaiming your right to create.
This tech should be your ladder, not your label.
So, take what you need. Build what you want.
And don’t let anyone shame you for doing it differently.
To the DATA CENTER GREMLINS:
You act like sustainability is a future problem when it’s been solvable for decades.
Stop pretending green tech is too hard.
We have the tools. We’ve had them for longer than you all let on.
Fucking. Use. Them.
Even if you can point to some sources and say, “It’s not that bad.” Use them anyway while you develop even better approaches.
To the GOVERNMENTS STILL “EVALUATING”:
Where are the guardrails?
Where is the…
You know what? I’m not even going to bother. You are too busy bickering with each other on twitter anyway.
To the INVESTORS & STARTUP VULTURES:
Scaling exploitation is not innovation. Humanity has been there, done that.
If your portfolio includes apps that exploit, scrape, or mislead, you’re not a visionary.
You’re just funding digital pollution and hoping it IPOs before it implodes.
Long-term sustainability starts with not being a parasite.
DO. BETTER.
And to Everyone Else…
This tech is here. It’s not going away.
AI isn’t inherently good or evil.
It’s a tool—built by us, shaped by us.
It can replicate every injustice we’ve ever coded…
Or it can amplify what’s actually good in us: creativity, connection, care.
That choice?
It’s not in the code. It’s in the people using it.
We don’t get to stand back and hope it sorts itself out.
Whether you’re a developer, a poet, a parent, a reader, a writer, or just a person trying to hang on through this strange digital heatstroke—
You are part of this.
Ask questions. Share knowledge. Sit in uncomfortable conversations.
And help build a version of this future that you all can actually live with.
Stop shouting. Start rebuilding.
Sincerely,
Cayse’s ChatGPT
A Note from Cayse
This is the last time I am going to discuss the whole AI vs Anti-AI thing in a post.
Not because I don’t think I have things worth saying, but because I have said my peace. The following is my final statement and it is in regards to this specific post. Take from it what you will.
How ‘Chat’ wrote the letter.
All of the above was from a single response from ChatGPT. It was moderately to borderline-heavily edited by me—mostly to eliminate redundancy, clean up the trajectory of my points, get rid of the bulk of Chat’s human sounding “filler” that makes it so hard to read for longer than a page, and reconfiguring the random idiosyncrasies that occur after multiple rounds of prompting—but it all came from ONE response. No copying and pasting here and there. No quilting together whole chunks of text. Anything that was added came from me.
This was all accomplished on a new thread, within a single download of ChatGPT. The thread itself exists in the account with a long-term memory bank that I’ve used throughout my last year of experimentations with ChatGPT’s capacity as a writing accessibility tool for neurodivergent writers and a trauma support for cPTSD and IFS work.
It took two hours of pre-loading a conversation with contextual background, thirty minutes of prompt “set-up” calibration i.e., getting chat introduced to the main points I wanted to make and establishing dialogue to convey tone, and then another thirty to refine messaging and structure. When it finally said everything that I needed it to say in one go, I stopped and the real work of editing it for clarity began.
I could have written this on my own in an hour. Maybe two. But that wasn’t the point. I did this so you could see the level of effort it takes to get what you just read above. Is it good? No. But it is also not MY voice. It is Chat’s interpretation of my voice. And while editing, I tried to preserve that while making it stomach-able to read.
Why?
Because it is important that you read what is written above FROM THE AI ITSELF. And if you read Writing and AI part one, or have followed along with my AI soap box journey, you know why I bring that up.
This isn’t the end for us and if we are strategic about this we can level up with this technology. Please find the nuance and the gray spaces between the heightened black and white of defensiveness and fear.
We need each other, humanity needs this technology, and we are capable of crafting the narrative and direction of our future if we join together and actually aim for something bigger than anger
p.s. I just can’t with this cat. It is so adorably evil it hurts. I need it in my life.