AI in Writing

ChatGPT seemed like an exciting, world-altering software. Where Google had fallen flat since its inception, ChatGPT steps up and fills in the blanks. Overnight, information is easier to access.

But do we want AI writing our novels? What happens to our society when AI is writing our ideals? What happens when writers are obsolete? Why should anyone care?

For now, publishers and readers alike don’t want AI-generated content. “AI slop” has become a shorthand for writing devote of feeling, peppered with purple prose. There is no shortage of human-written work, yet people are still trying to make a profit by mass-producing work.

Those trying to cheat the readers are cheating themselves as well. The act of writing a novel is transformative. There is a reason 80% of people want to write: it is the best way to get to know yourselves intimately. As writers, what can we do to prove we are human?

1) Save your drafts: AI writers that are short-cutting the process as not spending months on revisions. Some are leaving AI prompts inside the text. Saving your drafts is essentially showing your work.

2) Document your writing journey: Some are going to writing life-stream in order to prove their writing. I would say that’s too far. Being on Instagram, sharing your life as a writer will show you doing the work.

3) Keeping handwritten notes: A notebook where to write your “to do” list, ideas for changing scenes, questions that are arising, shows your thought process.

With this type of documentation on hand, of whether your work is yours becomes clear.