AI Take Over Writing? Not a Chance!

To all the writers bemoaning their fate, fearing the imminent takeover of their jobs by AI, my sincere advice is to "Stop the whining and start writing!" AI as it exists today is too dumb to even attempt to replace writers.

I am also willing to go out on a limb to say that it never can - no matter how much it evolves. A technology that requires us to prompt it and turns to content already created by us to regurgitate what we created cannot even begin to replace us. It makes no sense.

AI Is Not a Life Form That Will Try and Supplant Us.

I am not too sure that it will ever be in competition with us for the control of planet Earth and its resources, even if we teach it to think autonomously one day. Parents train their children to be autonomous of them, yet they never really do, even with all the freedom they have.

Do you think that mankind, with its programmed proclivity to be self-centered, manipulative, and primed to survive at all costs will ever let that happen?

The great sci-fi writer Arthur C. Clarke believed that the day is not far when mechanical life will replace organic life, and not only should we not resist it, but we should probably look at it as something evolutionary that was bound to happen. He likened it to the Homo Sapiens wiping out the Neanderthals. Again bunkum!

AI is nothing but another tool made by clever mankind; something it has been doing for hundreds and thousands of years.

AI has as little chance of destroying the very human proclivity to write as the automobile has of destroying our ability to walk or a boat has of doing away with our ability to swim. As long as there is mankind, it will always have the urge to create something, and AI is not going to stop us from doing that.

It can at best only follow our lead and try to second-guess what we might be thinking. It needs to pick our brains and not otherwise. So, buckle up and keep writing.

It is the early days of Generative AI, and the content that it is churning out may have dazzled people into submission, but the inherent problems in the regurgitation of old and already published content will soon trip this behemoth.

There is already a backlash against the use of Generative AI, not only amongst writers fearing for their livelihood, but end users as well.

From their SEO plummeting to plagiarism issues, not all is well in the world of Generative AI writing.

If you have read The Wars of the World by HG Wells, you know how this will likely end for Generative AI content. This monster will trip and fall. So keep your chin up, and write like you always have been. You may even use ChatGPT to do research and bounce off a few ideas. It can be useful as a tool. But fear it - nah!

Nothing upon the face of the earth can get ahead of human thought- not even self-thinking autonomous AI (if there will ever be such a thing). For it would not be thinking human thoughts. Writers, you really have a bright future ahead. Just wait and watch - and keep writing.

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