A.I. Has No Place For Writers!

 

This won’t be a long post, but please give me two minutes to just declare my disgust that AI is being used by people to write poems, letters, articles, speeches, term papers, books, and anything else! AI is cold and dispassionate, a digital wasteland for lazy people who refuse to think and actually put some effort in to creating something personal, unique, and non-formulaic.

I am disappointed in my wife, who used to work in book publishing (though it was audiobooks), when she turned to AI to generate a poem for her mom’s 80th birthday party. She fed in some facts and information and gave AI some parameters to turn it into a cogent poem.

What she got was something usable, though it was also filled with some errors or nonsense. She then made some edits and added in some personalized lines of text. Boom! She had a poem.

But it lacked authenticity. It was missing authorial integrity. This poem was a fake, not written passionately from the heart and mind or experience, but from some cold-hearted computer algorithm.  Impostor!

Words mean something. So do experiences, feelings, and ideas. Good writing is not a mechanical, fill-in-the-blank exercise. It is a soup that boils many things down to their essences, and then flows in a personable way.

Writing comes from the heart and not from a putting a bucket into a well of mere words that a robotic app can just drudge up and affix to a random place or next to each other, hoping that they meet linguistic metrics and sound like they really mean something of substance.

AI is another species or life form. It is a byproduct of humans, but not human. It is bull shit.

Screw you, AI!

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Brian Feinblum should be followed on www.linkedin.com/in/brianfeinblum. This is copyrighted by BookMarketingBuzzBlog ©2024. Born and raised in Brooklyn, he now resides in Westchester with his wife, two kids, and Ferris, a black lab rescue dog, and El Chapo, a pug rescue dog. His writings are often featured in The Writer and IBPA’s The Independent.  This award-winning blog has generated over 3.9 million pageviews. With 4,900+ posts over the past dozen years, it was named one of the best book marketing blogs by BookBaby  http://blog.bookbaby.com/2013/09/the-best-book-marketing-blogs  and recognized by Feedspot in 2021 and 2018 as one of the top book marketing blogs. It was also named by www.WinningWriters.com as a "best resource.” For the past three decades, including 21 years as the head of marketing for the nation’s largest book publicity firm, and director of publicity positions at two independent presses, Brian has worked with many first-time, self-published, authors of all genres, right along with best-selling authors and celebrities such as: Dr. Ruth, Mark Victor Hansen, Joseph Finder, Katherine Spurway, Neil Rackham, Harvey Mackay, Ken Blanchard, Stephen Covey, Warren Adler, Cindy Adams, Todd Duncan, Susan RoAne, John C. Maxwell, Jeff Foxworthy, Seth Godin, and Henry Winkler. He hosted a panel on book publicity for Book Expo America several years ago, and has spoken at ASJA, Independent Book Publishers Association Sarah Lawrence College, Nonfiction Writers Association, Cape Cod Writers Association, Willamette (Portland) Writers Association, APEX, Morgan James Publishing, and Connecticut Authors and Publishers Association. His letters-to-the-editor have been published in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, New York Post, NY Daily News, Newsday, The Journal News (Westchester) and The Washington Post. His first published book was The Florida Homeowner, Condo, & Co-Op Association Handbook.  It was featured in The Sun Sentinel and Miami Herald.