The truth about Artificial Intelligence (AI) writers, they are not real, at least not in the sense of living, breathing sentient beings. AI writers are like the psychopaths of the AI realm and humans created them. The articles written by AI try to emote what their algorithms “think” they want the human to hear. They are really good at matching what they “see and hear” around them but, the true emotional feel of an article is missing. The words are there…and they all sound “right” but in my opinion they miss the soul of the person who should have authored them. AI hasn’t ever been to a real place and felt the sun on its face, the cool wind, wrapped with the moisture of the crashing waves softly caressing its skin. AI will never really know the human sensation of these moments. It’s more than the feeling of your skin and how your brain interprets those feelings, but the deep emotional, guttural feel and textural memories wrapped in to that moment. AI can not truly know, in a moment, how a person feels and then expresses those feelings. AI can, however, make a really good deductive guess based upon programming and inputs.
When I was in my high school creative writing class, I remember really struggling with my second to last writing assignment. I could never score above a “B” and most of my scores were in the “C” range, which was incredibly frustrating. Everyone who read my work always proclaimed “wow! This is so amazing!”. Maybe they were just being nice? For this second to last assignment, I really wanted an “A”, so I did a lot of reading and found a piece that I basically plagiarized. I thought to myself, that there is no way my instructor would know this author and at the time we didn’t have the internet for them to check. So, I took the piece and word smithed it a bit to make it “my own” and turned it in. This should have been an easy “A”. My instructor returned it to me with an “F”. She knew I didn’t write it. She knew it wasn’t mine.
I was super pissed and went to her, I was sure she had it out for me. I asked her how and why did she give me an “F”? She said because she knew it wasn’t my writing…my words. I said, how on earth could she possibly know. And she said because after almost an entire semester of reading my writing and hearing me speak, she knew that could not be my work. I asked her why I couldn’t earn an “A” in her class, everyone else thought my work was so fabulous. And she said,
“I didn’t give you B’s and C’s because your work was bad. In fact, the opposite, you are a fantastic writer, but the work you turn in could be so much better if you really worked to your full potential. For anyone else, your pieces would easily be A’s, because that is the best that THEY could do. I know you have so much more in you. What you turned in was a B or a C, for YOU. So, work harder, find the words you want to use, give me your emotion, let me feel your soul for just a moment as I read your work and that will earn you your “A”.”
I was dumb struck by her honesty and with one more assignment to turn in for our final grade, I knew I what I had to do.
If you are a writer reading this and contemplating using AI, I recommend you use it as a tool but don’t let it replace your voice, your true emotion. I don’t care if it’s about food, traveling, your kids, house decorating, or whatever crazy shit you want to write about. Keep it human and let me feel your soul.
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