AI as a Creative Assistant for Mac Users — Has Anyone Tried That?

[cbum63]

Hi MacRumors fam,

So, I've been tinkering around with some AI tools on my Mac lately... think of it as hiring a digital sidekick that doesn’t ask for snacks but still occasionally makes me crack up with its misunderstandings. 😂

Here’s the deal: I tried using AI as a creative assistant—everything from drafting odd emails (“Hey boss, I might be an intergalactic carrier pigeon today”), planning blog topics, to even rearranging my app icons in ways I never expected.

Here’s what it did well:

Draft brainstorming – Need a snappy title for your blog? AI throws out things like “Quantum Kale Salad” when you actually wanted “Quantum Computing 101.” Still… creative overload!

Polishing prose – It makes my writing slightly less “I-woke-up-5-minutes-ago” chaotic.

Idea sparking – Sure, sometimes it swings and misses (“Write a thinkpiece on why toast is underrated” isn’t my jam), but hey, at least my productivity got a laugh break.

But—and this is the juicy bit—I hit a snag:
Not all AI interfaces mesh well with macOS. Some features get lost in the sauce when trying to use VoiceOver or navigating via keyboard. It’s like the AI is high-fiving my screen reader in Morse code that no one understands.

So I'm curious...

Has anyone else tried using AI as a creative assistant on their Mac?

Any tools that natively play well with VoiceOver or just plain accessibility?

Or maybe you just had a hilarious AI fail—“Tell me a haiku about macOS updates,” and it wrote a breakup letter instead? (Been there.)

Looking forward to swapping stories—productive or pun-filled. Let’s see if our AI sidekicks can help us write better... or at least give us something to laugh at when they go rogue.

Cheers,
Your future AI-hiring friend

 

[casperes1996]

Personally I find that LLMs just produce bland, long-winded writing lacking character. It’s a prediction model and if what you need is a prediction of the next word or sentence in a series based on statistical likelihood that can work well enough. It’s just rarely any good at anything that needs to carry meaning.

If you need something agentic I’m not sure on voice over support. But Jan feels fairly native and well built for a local option. And then for remote I’d just use the web interface and rely on safari for voice over support. But again it’s of course not going to be agentic at that point