March 6th question: Have you “played” with AI to write those nasty synopses, or do you refuse to go that route? How do you feel about AI’s impact on creative writing?
Sorry this is up late, but life happens.
Before I answer, don’t forget there different levels of AI. Technically, Grammarly, ProWritingAid, and other such editing programs can be considered to be AI. In fact, Grammarly is advertising itself as an AI tool. But now those programs are getting into the realm of rewriting sentences and suggesting different ways of stating the information presented to it.
I’ve used the grammar and spellcheck options of those programs for years. Recently, I’ve paid attention to the rewriting part of the programs. (I use ProWritingAid.) Frankly, I don’t think I’ve ever used a suggested sentence revision. They don’t have the same meaning as what I’m trying to say. So, I can’t imagine using it to write a synopsis.
Once, and only once, I played with a built-in Word Press plug-in to write a key phrase for a blog post. The results were so far off the mark that I didn’t give it a second thought and discarded it. I haven’t tried it again.
I’ve seen several blog posts from others that appear to be AI written. Lordy, they were bad. Real bad. Stiff and artificial with click-bait titles that had little to do with the content. I’d compare them to the pictures floating around the internet with free-floating hands with six fingers. But I could see them getting reads, presumably based mostly on the header.
I can’t see the future, but AI has me worried. If the market gets flooded by poor-quality writing, readers will be discouraged, and aspiring authors may get shut out of the market. And that’s not good.
Okay, I’ll get off my soapbox now. Don’t forget to check out some of the others on this hop by clicking on the links below.
As always, until next time, please stay safe.
I haven’t even played with it as much as you–and like you, I find the grammar suggestions questionable. @samanthabwriter from
Balancing Act
I always love when the tool I use can’t make up it’s mind about commas. Use one or not? It depends upon how the tool feels at the moment.
It might be bad now, but it’s learning. Every time you read a suggestion on PWA and reject it, it learns that it failed.
Side note: I’m a huge fan of their writing week webinars. Just love them to bits. 🙂
Anna from elements of emaginette
Hi, P.J. Like you, I’m worried about AI, particularly because I can’t see into the future and what will happen. Actually I am worried about the future, period. I will continue to do my own writing, because otherwise it wouldn’t be me writing. Have a happy and creative March!
The IT expert ‘s day job is , approximately, teaching computers, though not in creative writing., and he rejects that word ‘ artificial’ , .Created by humans, but might they be an advanced species, not mere Sapiens ? Not smart enough, though, to realise I meant Halle, Germany, not Hallelujah,. Switched off, at once
We met on a Vking dig, and away from the day job, he loves AI assisted Lidar. Checking the real locations tends to involve cold and windy hills, mostly in the Scottish/English Borders.
I don’t Al will ever replace creative writing but it is a helpful tool for other types of writing and other writer tasks.
Even WordPress can’t come up with a decent blog title? Sad. So much for the intelligence part.