AI Is Coming For Writers & Society

 

 

Some of you may see AI as an ally, where it helps you write something. For writers who pride themselves on original craft and creativity, they would never use AI. Or would they?

 

Feeling lazy, or under deadline pressure? Maybe you have writer's block? What’s the harm in using AI to assist, if not downright write your book for you?

 

The harm is we become an inhumane world. Humans write for humans; robots do not write for us. Pride of authorship and ego is important, but even more important is that we have a human minding our world. If we defer to robots, who knows what misinformation babble, or bad writing will result? What if the robots pen books that subdue humans, leading them to think a certain way, one that could be detrimental to society?

 

Having AI write books is like having a janitor from Rwanda write American dessert recipes. Both have no business in doing so. 

 

But what happens to the writer who merely sees an economic opportunity to put out as many books as possible in the fastest time period, using a machine to do its bidding?

 

There are society-killing sites like squibler.io, which proclaims to be “the fastest-growing, AI-assisted platform for book writing and screenwriting.” It says it “can help people transform their ideas into complete, hard copy books 20x faster.” Aside from such statements lacking veracity or even being capable of being proven or disproven, it scares the heck out of me. 

 

But the idea of machines writing books has been going on for a while. There are machines that can create great artworks, design buildings, and create the perfect travel itinerary. We don’t have to fear or resist technology but we do need to be cautious, have a checks-and-balance system, and where possible, lean to the human experience, not a robotical, digitized, and isolated one. 

 

Now, if it were not for GPS, I could never venture out of my house to just go to Starbucks. It is one of the best inventions of my lifetime and a game-changer for the direction-infirm. Did it put classic map-makers into the toilet? Sure, but I guess that’s progress. 

 

Having a robot write the greatest novel that involves not just things, places, and events, but people, feelings, and timely perspectives is something writers should pride themselves not to do - and for society to be leery of embracing and blindly accepting.

 

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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, BookCAMP, 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.