I am working on a long-form article in the AI space. Funny enough, AI has been incredibly useful with the process. I started with my own words from hours of voice memos where I explained the concept and direction I wanted to go.
AI took my words and wrote a rough draft. I edited the draft heavily, changing phrasing, rewriting multiple paragraphs at a time, and more. Now I'm using AI to incorporate feedback from select people as well as performing final edits. I often debate with it about two options for incorporating a specific item of feedback, just like I would with an editor.
The result is a long piece of writing from me, but it's difficult to know which words were me and which were the AI. In my experience, it's similar to how I've worked with a human editor in the past, except the feedback loop compressed from weeks to days.
In the end, I'm the one pouring over the words and putting my name on it, so it's going to be my published work. And it is far from a one-shot prompted paper. These tools are remarkable.
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I’ve done this and it is epic as long as you do it as a project it’s really good
Did you use only MapleAI or also other tools?
We don’t have projects yet in @Maple AI but I can feel the need for it
for AI, only Maple. I used general search for verifying the research and claims in the article.
I'm in the middle of wrestling with some of the same questions as to what counts as original work versus AI slop. This is helpful perspective. Thanks.
Maple was my choice not only because it’s what i do for work, but also because i wasn’t going to share my thought process with big AI apps. it was either Maple or local AI, and Maple was more powerful.
yeah i think it’s only slop if you don’t review it. it’s a fine line, but your human curation in the end makes all the difference.
but how did you import the voice memos into Maple?
Thats not possible at the moment.
I would like to upload several individual audio recordings to Maple AI. Each recording contains a single thought. It can sometimes be difficult to capture these points fully in one take. By using multiple recordings, you can structure your thoughts better and rethink/refine them.
Ah, I understand your question better now. The iOS Voice Memos app automatically had transcribed versions of my voice memos, so I was able to copy/paste those into the prompt.
Ideally I would not have used Voice Memos and instead recorded them in an offline app and transcribed them with MacWhisper using a local model.
We want to add this functionality into Maple, but it's not there yet. Not sure what kind of device you have, but there is likely a Whisper app that runs locally and you can feed it your audio files to get the transcribed text.
Big thx 🙏
I'm really hoping to see this feature added to Maple soon, it's something I'm missing a lot.
