The Absurdity of AI in Creative Writing
The Absurdity of AI in Creative Writing
I find it absurd that someone would spend billions teaching AI to do creative writing. The reason this is absurd is that reading takes time and humans already generate more content than we can consume. The result is that creative disciplines, such as writing, video making, and other forms of creativity or art, need to find an audience and people willing to pay for it.
AI and Corporate Social Responsibility
By saying that ChatGPT is good at creative writing, he is going against what Macron, Europe, the African Union, and others agreed to. AI should have an eye on corporate social responsibility, assisting humans with tasks rather than replacing humans with AI, as the US is trying to do.
The Efficiency Paradox
For me to write this blog post with AI would take a few seconds. The issue with this is that if I take a few seconds to get AI to write something, and a thousand others do the same, then a thousand articles are generated within seconds. Now, where do we find the available attention to read all of these blog posts?
The Flood of Mediocre Content
For me, the issue with AI is that it allows us to generate mediocre content within seconds and flood bookstores, blogs, and other sources with tons of material that no one will ever have the time, attention, or intention to read.
The Joke of Creative Accounting
As a joke, I said that AI should be trained to replace accountants because creative accounting is in demand. So, by teaching AI to be creative with accounting, OpenAI and others will make more money. It doesn’t make sense to undercut creative writers when the market is both saturated and does not offer job security.
Netflix and AI Upscaling
Netflix recently used AI to upscale a 90s show poorly, and there were a few comments on it over the last two days. There were also comments about how Netflix will provide internationalisation for content via AI rather than paid professional translators, voice artists, and more.
The Value of AI Proofreading
An AI proofreader would be welcome. With an AI proofreader, I can focus on writing, and then the AI can focus on checking it for readability, typos, grammatical errors, and repetition. In this context, AI makes sense because it is assisting me rather than replacing me. It’s also taking care of an aspect that I usually do not take the time to look into.
Personal Reflections on Proofreading
I enjoy sitting and writing, and if it were someone else’s work, I might find proofreading and editing more interesting. As it is my work, and fresh in my mind, I feel that AI fills the proofreading niche. I ran the experiment with this post.
Changes Made by Le Chat by Mistral:
- Corrected grammatical errors and improved sentence structure for clarity.
- Replaced “for which” with a simpler structure.
- Changed “payed” to “paid.”
- Added commas and adjusted phrasing for better readability.
- Changed “reading ease” to “readability” for better flow.
- Added a comma after “because” for proper sentence structure.
- Added a new subheading for the final paragraph to better organize the content.