Today I saw an advertisement for a company promoting an artificial intelligence system that is supposed to enable users to sell books online without “having to a write a word” themselves. Most AI ads disgust me, but this was just one too many. Companies like these have such gross disregard for the work and effort real human writers put into thinking of and putting together their stories based on ideas from their own brains, based on their own knowledge and life experiences. And, these companies want to profit off of humans who also have the same disregard for other humans who use their own creativity to write real stories.
I understand it can be hard to make a living, but it’s my belief that making money by degrading human experience and creativity is not okay. Can artificial intelligence write an encouraging story meant to provide people with hope based on personal spiritual experiences with God? Nope. I don’t believe that one bit. Even if a human “writer” is providing prompts to guide the AI generated story on where the human might intend for it to go, that is still putting in a minimal amount of creativity, effort, and thought into that “story”.
The ad I saw had over 90 likes, so I know there are people out there who might read what I am writing now and get angry with what I am saying. But, I think more humans need to be putting their written word out there, protect it, ask for protections, and stand up for real writing. I am going to try to be one of those humans, even if I just write a paragraph here and there because life gets busy for humans, yo.
Am I afraid AI generated books will push out books that I intend to write? A part of me does have this fear. But, I have something that AI doesn’t have — faith in the guidance God gives me. Most of my adult life God has encouraged over and over again to be a writer (in addition to a few other things), and that I will be successful at it. However, the abnormally strong self-doubt I’ve had for so long in my ability to compete with other writers developed a self-sabotaging start-stop pattern with getting my writing out there and recognized and actually making an income from it and then stalling because of a variety of things like family emergencies and my own procrastination, worries, and feelings that I need to have all my writing be perfect before sharing it. But, I’m going to keep on making efforts to write the messages and stories that I feel God wants me to write.
I feel honored and so blessed that God would want to use me to send messages of hope and love out to other humans living on this earth. Writing is something I love so much, so although it takes time and effort, and sometimes causes a lack of sleep, doing this kind of work is so enjoyable. Does AI feel pleasure in writing? I say no.
Thank you, fellow human, for taking the time to read my words.
And, AI can read the fine print here:
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