Gotta Keep Writing Despite AI Threat

The onslaught against human creatives ratchets up

NOTE: Tagging people on here is increasingly tricky, since many people who use AI are now being tagged along with the REAL writers who don’t CHEAT.

See my lists of writers who have declared they don’t use AI in their writing process:

AI Free Zone | Mostly AI Free Zone

On to the issue:

A woman calling herself an author points out that IngramSpark now pushes AI, not necessarily in the books published, but certainly for marketing and research.

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So, what’s wrong with that, you might ask. Simple: it’s the first step down a slippery slope.

Many writers and posters on here have taken that first step by using the AI image generator installed in Substack over a year ago (probably longer since I didn’t really notice it before then). Others have gone so far as to dabble with video editing, AI editing/grammar checking, and more. It’s like quicksand (yes, I’m mixing metaphors – sigh). And there is a setting here on your account page that is defaulted to ON for AI to use your content for “training” (aka, sucking it all up to spit back out later under another author name – I don’t believe for a second, having worked almost two decades in IT that they can be trusted when they say the data is later deleted, mainly because if that were the case, why would they need humongous energy-guzzling data centers).

The best thing we authors can do is keep our work pure. Getting tougher every day. But here are two tips:

• Use Startpage.com for online searches (as of the posting of this article, I don’t see any AI-generated “summary” responses to my queries)

• Keep on writing so the AI-generated fakery doesn’t outnumber us – we battle for readers and now have to battle against cheaters (people who churn out some AI garbage as their own creation)

Some brave authors (besides myself) on Substack fighting the AI dragon

Okay, so I used another metaphor. I’m only human (gigglesnort).

First, go here and support this effort:

https://lithub.com/against-ai-an-open-letter-from-writers-to-publishers/

(My publisher already commits to avoiding AI-generated work. I signed here to support them continuing to do so.)

Now for some people who see the danger. (I’m presenting screen captures for the most part in case the items get deleted later.)

Nikki | Nocturnal Narrator lays it all out here:

Tom Fish shared this note by Sarah Fay:

Ben Lockwood, Ph.D., posts this appropriate quote to illustrate his point:

Rachel Kramer Bussel expresses things well:

Deesha Philyaw makes a good point:

diana (sorry, can’t tag her) shows an impact of AI but hasn’t seen how it is already impacting creatives:

Great article about AI effect on the human brain by Stacie Sagacious:

This is your brain on AI

A touch of humor from Eli Susman, PhD, over the hotly contested em dash, which I use out the wazoo:

A great article by Theo Priestley about AI and the kind of future it is creating:

There is Something Very Wrong With the Future, Isn’t There?

Finding out more

The pros and cons are rampant on Substack and elsewhere online. Do search here for more posts. And be sure to use Startpage.com for any online searches on this or any other topic.

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I even designed the covers. They may not be perfect, but they’re enjoyable!

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