Writers Must Not Fall For AI

 

 

Writers are falling into the AI trap. They are deferring their thinking to a machine, one without authentic experiences, feelings, or original ideas. AI just cultivates data and words and regurgitates what’s already out there. Yet, authors are turning to AI to write, edit, and market their books. 

You can’t subcontract the thinking, creative, and curious side of you to a machine any more than you can ask AI to mend a broken marriage, cure cancer, or raise your children. 

AI to be clear, is not your trusted friend. It’s a product of corperations and governments seeking to learn how you think and act so that it can be better at manipulating, suppressing, or distracting you. It’s like asking your enemy for advice or a competing athlete for strategic tips on your playing ability. 

The more we feed AI, the stronger it gets, and the more real and trustworthy it seems. The opposites are true. AI is like a cop during an interrogation of someone who was arrested. The more you say to the cop, the more ammunition he or she has to use against you. It learns from you - what you say, how you say it, how you respond to things, what you are silent on, and your overall demeanor.  

Ok, I must sound like a lunatic who distrusts priests, athletic coaches, and home tutors, when it comes to how they interact with kids, but yes, I’m more cautious, suspicious, and protective because the reality is there are bad people in trusted positions, and there’s technology out there created or managed by people with ill intentions.  

We already give too much of ourselves to technology. Our life is online, from medical, employment, and school records, to what we search for, buy, or state on social media. Our phones are liabilities. Snitch-bitches like Alexa at home are the enemy. The government, big corporations, and anyone who pays for information- or simply hacks into it -- are listening, watching, stealing from us, and using us to indict ourselves.  

I don’t know what the solution will be. Staying off the grid can be disadvantageous as well. We collectively hope that good prevails, but we should know better. Our privacy is compromised, and we are getting to be so dependent on our online world that we’ve become less human, even engaging in what are robots and those who are friends for our entertainment, socializing, or business.  

AI will expedite the corruption of humanity. In 20 or 30 years from now, a time when I will be old and in physical and mental decline, I have no doubt AI will not be my friend or asset. It will be the chief tool used to subdue, obfuscate, and manipulate the world. 

Remember what AI is: artificial intelligence. It’s bullshit right now. It could be a monster that will destroy us.  

AI is good for those who want an edge at any cost, who lack morals, courage, discipline, or a soul. Yes, some good can come from AI, but the downside potential is much, much greater.  

Authors, resist asking AI to help you write your book. Humans write for humans. Speak from experience, curiosity, imagination, feelings, and knowledge. Don’t just throw random digits and letters together in hopes of an AI book soup coming out. 

Maybe it’s human nature to resist all change and to question an invention that could help or hurt us, but my point is this: AI, is not your friend. It has an ulterior purpose and can take on a life of its own. It might be time to rewatch The Terminator. It’s our prophecy if you allow it.

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About Brian Feinblum

This award-winning blog has generated over four million pageviews. With 5,000+ 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.”  Copyright 2025.

 

For the past three decades, Brian Feinblum has helped thousands of authors. He formed his own book publicity firm in 2020. Prior to that, for 21 years as the head of marketing for the nation’s largest book publicity firm, and as the director of publicity 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.

 

His writings are often featured in The Writer and IBPA’s The Independent (https://pubspot.ibpa-online.org/article/whats-needed-to-promote-a-book-successfully).

 

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. He served as a judge for the 2024 IBPA Book Awards.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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