Will AI replace writers? 😱 My honest opinion as a published author and freelance writer

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a scary technology for writers. Will it replace us? Will it make it even harder for authors to get their books in front of more readers? What does it mean for literary agents and the publishing industry as a whole?
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[@Harrison4U-tk6cq]

found this channel just now, Megan you are right, I think with AI, uniqueness of human stuffs will glow the most next few years and I try hard to restrict content consimption to have my unique independent untouched ideas for almost everything 😊🎉❤

[@AuthorDarrellCScottJr]

I agree, 100% with everything you said in this video. Personally, I think AI is a great editing tool to empower real writers. I use it to find synonyms, work through ideas, sentence structure, basic grammar and punctuation edits, and general fact checking. I would never use AI to write a 300 page novel for me. That’s madness and would completely negate the point of creative writing. 🤷🏾‍♂️

[@bymegangrant]

Exactly! I couldn't agree more. It sounds like you've found a great balance.

[@stgr6669]

You obviously look at it from the position of a writer, editor or publisher. But at the end, it will be the readers who decide. If it sells, some companies will use AI to create books, and these companies will outperform those who don't. When it comes to stuff like the medical books you mentioned, a human editor will have to look over it to avoid mistakes. In fiction, that may not be even necessary, considering how fast AI developed within a year or two. I can imagine that a company like Amazon will have their own AI to write, for example, thrillers or love stories. It will analyze a reader's preferences and fill the story with elements this particular customer likes to read. And it will be surpisingly good at it even if the reader never directly stated his or her preferences in detail. For me as a reader, it's a dystopian view. I'm no longer exploring what someone else wanted to tell, its just random stuff without a soul.

[@calypso_lazuli]

I think when AI first came into the public eye it caused a ridiculous amount of chaos in the writing and artist communities so much so that I believe it showed some of the “true colors” of where people stand in the grand scheme of things. Where I do think we should be cautious with using AI in our very own projects, it can still be quite useful in writing for example brainstorming or receiving ideas to be used while you’re outlining or plotting… The dreaded AI at this point has died down a little bit since then… This reminds me of the chaos in the art community when an [unnamed] artist got caught tracing over someone else’s line art for a pose, and was sued and it circulated throughout the entire world. At such point, plagiarism accusations were being thrown throughout the entire community for things that weren’t even legally considered plagiarism because of the fear of using inspiration in our works of art lol. So moral of the story is, we can use AI as a form inspiration in the (pre-)planning phase but ultimately we should be writing our own novels the old fashioned way and AI can’t really write an entire novel coherently anyway, it looks horrible LOL.

[@bymegangrant]

Very well said! It kind of reminds of bitcoin in how it BLEW up and then kind of fizzled - not in the sense that AI is going away, but I think (hope) that people are realizing AI isn't a shortcut to creating pieces of art. It's not the magical cure. The process is so much more complex.

[@calypso_lazuli]

@@bymegangrant 100%!!! Bitcoin has always intimidated me, I don’t fully understand it, granted I feel the same way about the stock market LOL.. I wish you luck in your publishing endeavors by the way, try to go into the self publishing route first, sometimes publishing houses will get ahold of self published authors if they see you’re gaining momentum ;-P

[@bymegangrant]

Thank you for the advice.

[@OrignalZumster]

You should try SudoWrite or Novelcrafter before you offer up your uninformed opinion.

[@grimmdanny]

AIs hallucinate too much to ever be able to replace writers. At best, they're good for proofreading and pointing out inconsistencies (such as voice and tense), and even that is prone to errors. Making it worse, you can direct an AI to agree with you on an opinion on your writing, and it will just continue to give you answers that fit those parameters. To make good use of it, you need to preset prompt params that state what you want as an output and work within those limits.

[@bymegangrant]

Yes! So much is influenced by the prompt. All great points you make.

[@Yatukih_001]

AI will not be able to replace authors. Here is why. AI can write an amazing poem, but it cannot replace poets. It can not write a horror story with a seemingly unpredictable ending - I can. Thanks for your video. Best wishes from Iceland!!

[@fifilore]

But isn't Grammarly AI?