Relying on AI to generate your content: Pause & see the damages
For some of us, writing is not just writing but our expression. It is our message to the coming generation. Writing is our tool to convey our learnings without forcing anyone to adopt them. For others, it’s just another task, a job, maybe. Writing to them is a tool to generate resources.
In the past two years, we have seen artificial intelligence coming into the writing domain. There are AI writers that can generate content in a few clicks. The problem is that “the content is actually good”. Now, this has caused a stir in both circles. People who were writing to generate money are confused if this would eventually drop their profits. And the circle that I belong to doesn’t know if it would leave us any space to grow and generate something new.
I am a researcher and I like to share my observations only when I have observed something. I did use an AI writer for a short time to understand what it does and how my life is going to be impacted by this. To my surprise, it did more harm than good.
I am sharing my realization from a small experience of 4–5 articles that I tried with AI writers.
AI writers bias your thoughts
As I have discussed above. Writing is not just a task to produce something. It is an endeavor to express our learnings and thoughts. The AI writers don’t have any life experience and thoughts to express. They just dump data. Of course, they have a lot of data to refer to. But they don’t have a perception sense. They can create smart links between the data and put it in some readable form.
In my experience with AI writers, the writer would pick a lot of data and give me good options. These would be logical arguments taken from multiple sources and rephrased. I ended up losing my creation. The articles that I generated were pretty different from what I wanted to write.
AI doesn’t create something new
Authors read before they start writing. You cannot create something new without experiencing and experiencing is a risky task in today’s world. A lot of us experience life with reading. That’s the reason people perceive the same text in different ways. I started reading Ramcharitmanas in my teens. I read it a couple of times and it stopped being a story to me. Now when I read it, it is a message. I can write short books on every two lines that “Tulsidasji” has written. The text is the same but my understanding of that text has evolved. “AI is not capable of such learnings.” Any artificial intelligence that changes the output to the same input would be perceived as incorrect. But for humans, it is simply an evolution of understanding.
Thus, the AI writers don’t create something new, but they just rephrase what was already there in the universe. That’s the reason when one relies on AI to generate content, they end up with so much old stuff that their own creation starts struggling to find a place.
AI-generated content is crowding the web
I don’t have many problems with AI-generated content but one and that is “there is too much content”. People are in a race to write something and that’s why AI has come into this domain. Earlier an author would wait for years to create a masterpiece but it’s not possible nowadays.
Some people are generating content every hour. All this content ends up on Twitter, Facebook, Personal blogs, and the open web. I am not certain how much of the web would be AI, fakes, deepfakes, bots, and algorithms in the coming years. Then we will struggle with the problem of the plenty. There would be so much information available that it would dilute the quality of good information. Finding good and reliable information would be hard.
But this doesn’t mean that AI writers are a lost cause. They are very helpful for some of us. They give us a head start, a thought to cling upon, an idea to work upon, a theme to build upon, and a context to express. Perhaps they are worth considering for some of us. Let me know your thoughts “What do you think about AI writers”
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