The mistake is dead, long live the mistake! Introducing a concept for naive ideation

The AI-ethics researcher Luciano Floridi promotes a new form of writing appearing with LLMs: Distant writing. Authors will not write text themselves anymore, but guide a machine to do so. I argue this brings an unprecedented form of textual and cultural rationalization and homogenisation. This is also the dilemma for academic institutions nowadays: High pressure for quality homogenization and output expectations, on the other hand loss of the unique creative human perspective. Therefore, I suggest the concept of „naive ideation" that preserves the human voice and perspective, while not fully excluding the strength of AI-assisted writing.

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