Colin Darney
Hi, Geetha. 😊
That's a loaded question because there are so many strong opinions, but I'll answer it as honestly and completely as I can, from the perspective I think you’re most curious about: writing. The use of AI in writing is also talked about very frequently among authors in a plethora of author groups. If you want to get a wide variety of opinions, I’d suggest finding any author group on Facebook and bring the subject up. The sometimes unanticipated and heated responses may surprise you.
Anyway, here we go. 😉
In short, I think authors who have AI write for them and then market the AI’s work as their own are crap. If you’re going to be an author, produce your own work. If you’re going to market an AI’s work, just simply say so. However, I see nothing in-and-of-itself wrong with an AI produced story, because to deny that stories produced by AI’s are coming is to deny reality itself. Basically, it sucks, but all I can do is compete with what’s coming.
However, to use AI to help research and complete a story, I see absolutely no problem with.
For instance, I use an AI as an emergency thesaurus – when I can describe what I want the word to say but can’t think of the actual word. In instances like those, I can describe what I’m thinking to the AI and it can list a bunch of possible words based on probability. This allows me to get back to writing the story quicker, without having to break away from my creative process to spend sometimes hours paging through a thesaurus.
I also use AI as a research tool. For instance, I recently had to have insights into dark-ages and spanish-inquisition era thinking. Unless I wanted to take weeks off to research history, which most likely would end needing to consult an expert, again interrupting the story-telling process, answering the questions I had wouldn’t be possible. As an AI has access to a plethora of tidbits of esoteric knowledge that I simply don’t have, it’s much easier for me to ask it those things and then verify what it answers by asking it to cite sources.
These are only two examples of how I have used AI to help me tell a story. I do not and will not ever allow an AI to help me actually write what I market to the reader; that’s my bailiwick and not a machine’s. My creative process is my own. The words I use are my own. But I feel I am using the AI as it’s intended: as a tool, and nothing more.
Hope this answers your question, and if you want to hear other opinions than my own I again point you towards the various author groups on Facebook.
Colin
That's a loaded question because there are so many strong opinions, but I'll answer it as honestly and completely as I can, from the perspective I think you’re most curious about: writing. The use of AI in writing is also talked about very frequently among authors in a plethora of author groups. If you want to get a wide variety of opinions, I’d suggest finding any author group on Facebook and bring the subject up. The sometimes unanticipated and heated responses may surprise you.
Anyway, here we go. 😉
In short, I think authors who have AI write for them and then market the AI’s work as their own are crap. If you’re going to be an author, produce your own work. If you’re going to market an AI’s work, just simply say so. However, I see nothing in-and-of-itself wrong with an AI produced story, because to deny that stories produced by AI’s are coming is to deny reality itself. Basically, it sucks, but all I can do is compete with what’s coming.
However, to use AI to help research and complete a story, I see absolutely no problem with.
For instance, I use an AI as an emergency thesaurus – when I can describe what I want the word to say but can’t think of the actual word. In instances like those, I can describe what I’m thinking to the AI and it can list a bunch of possible words based on probability. This allows me to get back to writing the story quicker, without having to break away from my creative process to spend sometimes hours paging through a thesaurus.
I also use AI as a research tool. For instance, I recently had to have insights into dark-ages and spanish-inquisition era thinking. Unless I wanted to take weeks off to research history, which most likely would end needing to consult an expert, again interrupting the story-telling process, answering the questions I had wouldn’t be possible. As an AI has access to a plethora of tidbits of esoteric knowledge that I simply don’t have, it’s much easier for me to ask it those things and then verify what it answers by asking it to cite sources.
These are only two examples of how I have used AI to help me tell a story. I do not and will not ever allow an AI to help me actually write what I market to the reader; that’s my bailiwick and not a machine’s. My creative process is my own. The words I use are my own. But I feel I am using the AI as it’s intended: as a tool, and nothing more.
Hope this answers your question, and if you want to hear other opinions than my own I again point you towards the various author groups on Facebook.
Colin
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