Write from the heart, not from AI
Many writers are exploring Artificial Intelligence as a writing tool, but authors need to weigh in balance what their read expect from them.
I see many writers online experimenting with artificial intelligence tools that aid in writing. I don’t blame them, as AI promises to aid in many of the boring or time-consuming parts of writing.
However, I have to tell you, I am really alarmed at the idea of a writer that I follow generating their content through an artificial intelligence tool rather than writing from their knowledge, experience, and heart.
We are overwhelmed with information today. We have so much to read and so little time, and because of that, we have to be aggressively selective to make sure what we read has value and comes from a perspective that we respect.
The thought that I set aside time to read content that a machine-generated isn’t wrong to me, but I want to know that upfront.
I worry that some popular writers might start using AI writing tools to generate content solely to have more content. It’s true, content is king. The more you have, the more likely you are to be picked up by search engines, and more people are then drawn into your world, and your reader base grows (and likely financial incentives from that). However, it feels wrong to treat readers as if they are clickbait to get more hits.
I am sure most writers would not do that, but on the other hand, if many start doing it, others will be tempted.
I read to connect with the mind of the author. To benefit from their perspective, emotions, experience, adventures, worries, and so on from their life and work. It is the human that I want to engage with in my limited precious time.
Give me true AI — Author Intelligence
I have some suggestions or, better put, requests for you dear authors.
Don’t forget why your readers read your content. They want to connect with you, they value and respect you. Let them connect with your intelligence, not that of some robot.
You are the author, stay the author.
If you do use AI tools, be selective. Let AI tools help you with the hard parts of cleaning up text, publishing, and other tedious publishing tasks. But don’t let them write for you. You are the author, stay the author.
If you do choose to use AI tools to do the writing for you, then disclose that.
Let your reader know that you collected a bunch of good ideas you want to share with them and then fed them into the AI meat grinder and what they are reading is the sausage that came out the other end.
Let us, as intelligent authors show respect for our readers by writing to them from our hearts.
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