The biggest minor error of recent times: trusting AI to write essays and the sort, and the pain of editing those fucked up large files

I've written about this before, possibly several times before, but it needs mentioning again, because I'm still suffering from the downstream results of it. I needed to write sixty essay, ish. I was sold too early by the glorious promise of an ai system that would write brilliant essays in my own voice, without fucking things up. I trusted it, and went on a rampage of writing sixty to eighty super duper long essays in the ai's voice. And then figured I could easily edit it to provide my voice later on. Oh how wrong it was.

The language ai writes essay in actually sucks. Like, if I saw it once, I would say hmmm pretty good. But if I saw it over and over again, I'd tell them to write like a goddamn human being, otherwise nobody would ever read them. And even if they were forced to write in a different 'voice', the ai system can't really adjust for 'knowledge level' of a given individual. Because it doesn't have the understanding, depth and curiosity of a regular human person, it just blabs out whatever. It's like as if you asked Newton to write all of your homework, and he did it, all in the same droning tone, without accounting for your knowledge and experience. Yeah you can go back and edit stuff around, but fundamentally it's such a different essay that not much can be done anymore. You know what I mean?

The real, actual way to write essays should have been this: I think of an outline. I dictate the general content of the essay to my google recorder app. Then send the output to some Ai system to clean the transcript and make it readable. Then give it to another ai system to organize it only lightly, do not edit it etc. Then I go in, and actually edit it by myself, and eventually publish it. Time to think originally: 10 mins. Time to dictate: 20 minutes. Time to edit: 10 minutes. Time to run the essay through ai and come up with stronger arguments: 20 minutes. In an hour, hour-thirty maximum, my essay, a real human-written essay without all the bullshit would be complete and I'd be a happy customer.

But no, now the time taken for each piece is who knows how long, and I'm stuck in this miserable purgatory of never quite knowing if I'm done or not, because that piece is never really mine despite spending the same amount of time, and providing twice the required wordcount in relevant information to this crap system.

I've put myself in a miserable situation. There are definitely places where the AI is useful, I can see that, but where I'm currently deploying it, that is not it. What. A. Bummer. Ah well, I learned all of this pretty quick.