Writing and artificial intelligence: apprivoiser one’s own paper
Shigeki Matsubara · 2025
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Description
Shigeki Matsubara wrote a 2025 letter on writing with smart software tools, drawn from a French word, apprivoiser. In the novel Le Petit Prince, the word means more than to tame. It means taking time with something, building a bond through shared work, until it becomes precious and hard to replace.
Matsubara argues that a paper should be treated that way. Long nights spent shaping words are not wasted time; they are how a writer makes a paper truly their own. He notes a split between those who see papers as mere records and those who see them as the fruit of a personal path. His advice is plain: draft alone, revise until the work feels fully yours, and only then let a tool check grammar. If its phrasing feels foreign, go back to your own words.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Shigeki Matsubara |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |