The Future — Is AI going to replace writers?
AI and its recent developments - is it a threat to writers?
If you’ve heard about AI and its recent developments, you might be wondering about your future as a writer. Will AI replace writers?
It’s true that AI developments have been performing extraordinarily lately — starting from the implementation of AI in vaccine development, Fully automated driving, and the rollout of robotaxis, Applied natural language processing, Quantum computing, and AI chips.
Are writers the next in line to be replaced? It’s true that there are tons of AI writing tools available today, which perform incredibly. However, most of these tools are still in the developmental stage — still yet to be perfected completely.
I think AI will get better in the future to compete with the work done by writers but that doesn’t been it will completely replace writers.
Just as machine work, there’s always required to operate and control it. The task instructions are keyed in by a human before it’ll start working on them. And AI is no different because writers will always need to add the instructions while monitoring the process to ensure a quality result.
Writers will not get replaced entirely by AI because it will just simplify the processes of writing.
Will AI Replace Or Enhance Human Writers?
It’ll be hard for AI to replace human writers with its current performance. As of Today, AI will enhance the working experience of human writers. The job of a writer will basically become as an editor where the role is deciding what’s good by polishing the generated texts from AI tools.
AI tools might be fast in pumping out words but it will still be a human to restructure the sentence to make it beautiful. The advancement of AI will only modify the career role of writers, leading to them working as operators of AI tools.
Imagine getting a writing job — only to operate AI tools and edit the words it produced to suit your preferred style — that’s what writers will benefit from AI writing tools.
Writers won’t have to sit for long hours thinking and pressing keys or writing on a piece of paper to generate meaningful words, while AI tools can simplify the process for them.
As the popularity of AI tools and performance increases, writers will need to learn and write with these tools.
Writers Collaborating With AI
Instead of we writers taking AI as a threat to the success of our career, I think we should collaborate with AI in simplifying our writing experience.
The use of technology like AI is affecting almost all careers today — painters are facing the challenge of robots painting self-portraits — there’s no doubt that machines are being used to replace different career sectors.
But that’s different for writers currently, we have the chance of utilizing AI to our advantage currently. We writers can make AI tools beneficial to our writing process — just as building engineers have implemented the strategy of using machines to simplify their working process — AI writing tools can also serve a similar purpose to writers.
In 1967, Alison Knowles used FORTRAN, which is a popular programming language for poems and a novel. Technologies like AI are meant to be utilized by us humans and not serve as a threat to what we do.
In the 90s, it was hard for writers to work remotely, but today a huge number of writers are working remotely. As technology advances, there’s always thought of what we could achieve with it and what we can’t.
So, the purpose of this article is to let writers know that the current performance of AI isn’t capable of replacing writers. Even if AI writing tools get better in the future, human writers will be required to operate the tools for better results.
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