How We Win as Human Writers, Even With Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) Everywhere
The answer is more straightforward than you think, and no one talks about it
Why spend time reading this article?
For writers: Gain awareness of your unique selling point, which no artificial intelligence can compete with.
For readers: Gain awareness of who/what writes books you read from now onward.
Intro
It's a matter of time (and tons of energy). After a while – years or months? – what GAI writes will be indistinguishable from human writings. As a content consumer, do you mind if the book you enjoyed comes from GAI or humans? Now, maybe, in the future, no: The content matters, nothing else.
In this world, what role can writers still have?
Will writers become prompt engineers whose purpose is to tell the GAI what to write? Or will they become useless because readers can ask GAI what they want to read, and GAI will write it to them in the blink of an eye?
Formulating the answer requires a step beyond the distinction between humans and GAI. We must consider both as writers. Don't be surprised by that. Whatever "thing" — human or machine — can produce writings…
