AI and Books: The Dangerous Future
This post contains some information as well as my opinion on the matter.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is something that isn’t going to be going away. The pandora’s box is open and no one is closing it. AI will be with us forever and we unfortunately have to accept that – as much as we may not want to.
While AI does bring a lot of wonderful things to certain sectors, in the literature field it is beginning to raise a lot of concerns and create a lot of issues.
Before we dive in a little bit, as a reminder of what AI actually is.
Artificial intelligence, or AI, is technology that enables computers and machines to simulate human intelligence and problem-solving capabilities.
–IBM
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I want to specifically call out that human intelligence part.
Artificial intelligence, through things like language learning models (LLMs) have the ability to create conversations and simulate what a human would say or write. Based off of a massive data set, and the data that people put into it and feedback you can give on responses, AI’s are constantly learning and developing to get better and better.
I’ve personally seen AI’s online that you can roleplay with that respond in an incredibly realistic way. It’s almost like two people are live roleplaying – except one of them is actually a computer.
Now you may be asking – okay what are you getting at?
The future of stories and literature writing.
When I read a book, and when most people read a book, they want to read what was written by the author. Not what was written by an AI or by an author that prompted an AI and spliced it together.
I am not here to read a book published by a computer.
There are programs out there, for now, that can pick up on when an AI was used to create something. But publishers have to actively vet for that. And in a world where self-publishing is becoming easier and easier, there’s not always a way to know who wrote the book. Some indicators could be a more robotic writing style or it just not flowing organically. However, with AI’s getting better and better, it may become increasingly challenging.
But to be honest, in my opinion, with the amount of self-published crap out there (yeah, I said it), is it AI or is it just a bad writer who didn’t have the rigor of a good editing process? Sometimes it really is hard to know.
AI allows anyone with no talent whatsoever to go to an AI, paste in an idea, and turn it into a story. If you have a little more creative talent, utilizing a roleplay AI allows the story to progress even faster as the AI pushes and generates part of the story idea.
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Now I have no clue the answer to fix this because the future is AI and the future is machine learning.
Although, I would highly recommend that those who want to go into the writing field, don’t take the easy way out. Writing is such a beautifully creative skill where you, with your brain and your hands or fingers craft people and worlds! Technology shouldn’t replace humans in this creative journey.
So while you may want to write a book fast and try to earn money by making the next best book, take a moment to stop and ask yourself if you use an AI to write it will you be proud of your work if you didn’t really write it? Would you want someone else to do that and to read a book like that?
As a reader, I read to read something created by someone, not something. I read for the human creation and I know so many others do out there.
If you want to write with AI, which honestly can have some cool aspects, being clear that this is an AI assisted created or something along those lines is better than publishing an AI creation under your own name.
Because really, it’s not your work then.
