Why AI Is An Opportunity For Creative Writers
An Optimistic Outlook For The Future Of New AI Tools like ChatGPT
AI is a lot of things — new, confusing, exciting, bizarre. It’s certainly scary to many of us. But there’s one thing it’s not — human.
What I mean is this: AI is not imaginative or original. It can’t actually come up with anything new on the spot like humans, but rather it is an amalgamation of other things that have been written, said, and produced before. In a sense, it’s a conventional wisdom machine. This idea was disussed in a recent podcast by Mickey Kaus and Robert Wright on the NonZero podcast. AI rewrites and regurgitates what has already been said.
Here’s an interesting discussion point. There’s been evidence that artificial intelligence programs can detect other AI-generated writing, like from ChatGPT. This is fascinating to me. There is something so unnatural and inhuman about it, down to an almost indiscernible level, that big companies like Google have the ability to detect AI-generated text and even demonetize and demote it — or prioritize it.
Whether you love or hate this technological revolution, AI has become a major topic of contention. Medium itself has been flooded with articles on the new technology, both for and against. Many have wondered what this may mean…
