The dawn of artificial intelligence is upon us. There is no denying it. At the time of this writing, Hollywood is on strike (writers and actors) because of their concern over the use of A.I. in the creative industries, specifically how it will impact the writing of movie scripts and the use of advanced technology to use enhanced images of actors in the future instead of using the actors themselves. A.I. certainly has made the folks in all forms of written entertainment worried.
On college campuses students are using ChatGPT. Students are using this technology to have their college papers written for them. Just my personal opinion, but this is a major step forward in the dumbing down of education in our country. For a monthly subscription, anyone can use ChatGPT to write their term papers, essays, work emails, marketing copy, and even financial reports. The list of what this technology is doing is growing by the day. Do you want a children’s story about gophers? Just tell ChatGPT to get on it and you’ll have your story in no time. So, will this technology replace writers and novelists, newspaper reporters, and online bloggers?
There are certainly pros and cons to this new technology. Writers need to be at the forefront of this discussion. Not only do we risk losing a lot of writing jobs to this technology in the business world (editing, copyediting, marketing, financial reporting, etc…) but we may risk having a non-human “entity” competing in the realm of human creativity. This discussion will only grow in the coming months and years, but I hope writers take the lead on this in the media and on their own blogs and websites.
On September 14th at 8 PM, our guild will be having its monthly night meeting via ZOOM. A few of us will be having this discussion and will record it for YouTube. I hope we can garner some interest in having at least a panel of six of us to delve into this issue. It’s a topic I know many in this guild would be interested in listening to.
On college campuses students are using ChatGPT. Students are using this technology to have their college papers written for them. Just my personal opinion, but this is a major step forward in the dumbing down of education in our country. For a monthly subscription, anyone can use ChatGPT to write their term papers, essays, work emails, marketing copy, and even financial reports. The list of what this technology is doing is growing by the day. Do you want a children’s story about gophers? Just tell ChatGPT to get on it and you’ll have your story in no time. So, will this technology replace writers and novelists, newspaper reporters, and online bloggers?
There are certainly pros and cons to this new technology. Writers need to be at the forefront of this discussion. Not only do we risk losing a lot of writing jobs to this technology in the business world (editing, copyediting, marketing, financial reporting, etc…) but we may risk having a non-human “entity” competing in the realm of human creativity. This discussion will only grow in the coming months and years, but I hope writers take the lead on this in the media and on their own blogs and websites.
On September 14th at 8 PM, our guild will be having its monthly night meeting via ZOOM. A few of us will be having this discussion and will record it for YouTube. I hope we can garner some interest in having at least a panel of six of us to delve into this issue. It’s a topic I know many in this guild would be interested in listening to.
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