Can Artificial Intelligence replace a writer?

Marco Aurelio GV
Oct 6, 2023
3 min read

Updated: Dec 27, 2024

The AI advent is bringing a lot of questions, but most of them are still answered. Not even scientists know the most probable scenario regarding this very matter. For writers like me, a main question is popping up: Can AI replace writers? If so, will we see the "new era of people"? Those who will quit creating genuine human stories? I myself". doubt that these odd times might happen one day. Well, let's debate this another issue about AI. Read more.

To replace writers, machines must emulate emotion...

Any human non-operational activity that depends on talent and so needs emotion, cannot be mimicked by AI. At least nowadays AI's stage is still in its first days. Nonetheless, it's hard to predict what's coming up. Hopefully, my generation is safe so far.

When will AI replace writers?

As I said so far AI may be a good assistant to writers. It can correct your grammar, correct some orthography mistakes, and even help you find the best style for this or that phrase. The best title for your post that can call more the attention of readers might be a good catch as well.

It is unlikely that "ChatGPT" might someday replace writers.

AI can’t emulate creativity, personal insights, and subjective experiences.

In other words, AI can create new and original content from the inputs that generate the algorithms or data patterns that produce texts, programming codes, images, and sounds. Therefore, the human brain will never be copied like some scientists intend to when there is a project on a synthetic or artificial brain.

What about an AI moral code or ethics?

According to researchers, “There are ethical issues that must be carefully considered to ensure responsible use of AI that can mitigate biases attributed to underlying AI systems, respecting copyrights, and individual privacy. With necessary controls in place, generative AI only has the potential to enhance creativity and challenge conventional thinking.”

Despite the concerns, we have to admit that AI is here to stay for good. Whether it's going to dominate humankind is another business. I don't trust its makers though. The more they are reliable, the more AI can be trusted. Otherwise, we are at risk.

Furthermore, AI could bring up another preoccupation: the guy who can become their dependent to do everything, not only writing. So is an indulgent generation upcoming?

Does AI actually represent, what most neurologists fear: indolence?

To what extent will those AI dependents be brain-damaged?

This issue is one of the greatest concerns of neurologists nowadays: mental laziness people due to AI which might atrophy their brains.

In other words, certain regions of the brain could become permanently atrophied due to lack of use and, because of neuroplasticity.

Exploring AI wisely

If you add AI (Artificial Intelligence) skills to your NI (Natural Intelligence) skills, you’re bound to get the best out of it, without being subservient, like a drug addict. Simple as that.

In other words, taking wise advantage of AI’s efficiency and promptness means adding the useful to the pleasant. For the blog's writer, it means putting together the structure of their text with an attractive title, according to the rules of content marketing, i,e, using a classic “copyrighting” that will guarantee the success of your work from an agile and consistent reading. On the other hand, writers who are dependent on AI need a warning: there is software that can differentiate the real from the pseudo-work.

This turns out to be good news to the creative people who burn their neurons to make a good piece.

Conclusion

Leo Tolstoy once said a quote that I enjoy very much: "Instead of seeing the beauty of the trees in a forest, some people only see the wood they could provide them." This is the real picture of a pessimistic guy. Not me.

Thus, I prefer to believe that AI is here to help us, not to overcome or blur our thoughts or talents. Actually, only stupid people might depend 100% on AI. That's a fact.

In short, AI is a must because it can speed up the progress of humanity. The secret is to make good use of it. Explore it at the maximum only when you write something you've created without any external help. Again, human intelligence is only supported by their conscience and sensibilities, not by a machine.