By Uzoamaka Onuorah You’re on social media, scrolling through your feed when you see a carousel with an original story on it. You start reading and become totally engrossed in it. But as you read farther into it, you notice something’s different about the writing; it feels human at first glance, but upon close inspection there’s strange repetition and language. You’re not sure though, so you keep on reading. Just as you’re about to leave a favorable comment complimenting the author, though, you read the tags, and you see it’s not even made by an actual human being. It’s AI generated! And all the comments are about how you can’t escape AI and how it's ruining the writing space. Let's talk about it. These days, you can’t go far on the Internet without bumping into something AI generated. An artwork of a fake Disney character, a generated song cover by a popular singer, a fictional horror story. The sudden development and growth of it in the past year has spread like a rapidly mutating plague. It’s affected digital art, music, and writing, too. Many artists, writers included, have been feeling betrayed by the way tech companies are feeding their art to AI for it to be later mixed and regurgitated for social media. It's had a huge effect on the writer’s space as well. Many writers have had to grapple with the idea of their writing potentially being used as fodder for AI, and it's become a valid fear to think about now. Writers aren't getting compensated when a company uses their work to train their AI, and it shows a larger problem of writers being slowly pushed out of their own community. The problem is that AI-generated content is flooding the writing space, and it’s noticeable. The same tired phrases—tapestry, empowering, fabric, quilt—are being recycled endlessly, giving everything that “AI touch.” And while I’m not anti-AI, the overuse of it in creative writing makes the work feel deceptive. It lacks the heart, the struggle, and the triumph that comes from the genuine, messy process of writing. For many writers, AI has also lessened the quality of writing and made it feel soulless and less human. The overreliance on technology sucks all the heart out of the process of writing. You don't get to experience the low of a writer’s block, the high of finishing a chapter, and the in-between spells of planning what you want to write when you let AI generate the writing for you, and it's starting to show. Nowadays, you can tell when something is written out of love and sweat and when it's written from code. Writers, it's important to remember how human the process of writing is. Whether you feel AI in the writing space is necessary, detrimental, helpful, or annoying, giving the job of writing away to this technology is removing the human aspect of writing. It would be better for all of us writers if we could encourage the messy process of writing over letting AI do it for us, before the effects of it become too great for writers to recover from. Up Next: We'll show you the most effective ways to use AI as a writer without it stripping away your creativity. Learn how to leverage AI as a tool to enhance your process—whether it’s for brainstorming ideas, editing drafts, or overcoming writer’s block—while keeping the heart and originality of your work intact
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