Our world is changing, folks. It seems many people no longer prioritize authenticity. Being fake has become the new real. By fake, I mean using AI to create what we want instead of relying on our own brainpower. To be honest, I’ve been working with Machine Learning | AI for over a decade now and I was one of the first to hail AI as if it was the second coming of Christ.
But it has its downsides.
One of them is that I think half of the content I read on paid for blogs like Medium is AI generated content.
Not that I have an objection against AI generated content. Just as I do not have an objection against Wikipedia content. But the thing is that when I am paying for authentic stories on the internet, I expect them to come straight from the heart and right into a stream of bits on my display.
I can smell AI generated content from afar. The patterns are always the same. It is bland content. Does not take a stance, always uses the same meaningless words like “Delve”, “Captivating”, “Beacon”, “Transforming”, “Illustrious”, “Revolutionizing”, “Unwavering”, “Unlock”, or “Seamlessly” (source: the most used words on ChatGPT 2024).
I and many writers pour our hearts and souls into our power of words. We do it because we love writing and aim to encourage and facilitate learning while learning through researching at the same time too. Human stories connect the writer with the reader. What will AI-written stories connect with and to?
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Humans without creativity and innovative issues won’t hunger for AI. The ones with a-hell-of- imagination, will not hunger for AI either. Smart people who know themselves won’t see AI as a threat or competition when it comes to art and creativity.
“Human beings have dreams. Even dogs have dreams, but not you, you are just a machine, an imitation of life. Can a robot write a symphony? Can a robot turn a canvas into a beautiful masterpiece?” Carmellita
Dreams are vital to humanity, whether it is what you want or imagine for yourself and your future. Or what you see in your sleep. In my culture, dreams are warnings or messages from our ancestors, so I must keep my brain in working order to gain an understanding of my dreams and what it is telling me to do.
Human is AI’s competition, not the opposite.
From my perspective and research, I contend, that a writer who uses AI to generate a story, article, poem, or novel is not the author of the generated work
What! Do you mean all of the efforts, time, energy, and resources you put into Chat GPT, OpenAI, and the others, your masterpiece isn’t your own. You can’t claim ownership?
Indeed, because:
1. A human did not create the original work.
2. They cannot take ownership of the work.
3. And they cannot attest to the accuracy of the work.
You should demand your time, effort, energy, and resources back because AI does not write or create original work.
I guess the ones investing so much time and effort in deceiving us, aren’t aware of this.
Since authorship involves creating original work whether a novel, poem, article, screenplay, or other forms of writing, if you use AI-generated content, you did not create or write original work.
So, you cannot ethically or legally take ownership of AI writing?
I didn’t know this, and this is good to know that they can’t copyright what AI wrote for them. I am sure many of them have tried. AI cannot write from a place that it doesn’t have. Meaning the heart, mind, soul, and other places that many real writers write from.
Hence, the resulting works are not copyrightable based on the policy because the work has not met “the human authorship requirement.”
Do you mean there are writers out there who use AI to create what they want and then send it to the Copyright Office to claim ownership?
I am being sarcastic. I know many have tried and some may have gotten through the loophole too. I hope not though, as dishonesty seems to be normal and acceptable to many in our world now.
And if you cannot take ownership of a work, and vouch for its accuracy, originality, and potential cultural impact, then you are not the author.
Then why bother using AI to create a masterpiece and can’t claim ownership of it?
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