ROBOBOOKS! THE RISE OF AI WRITING:

Joe · 2025-03-31T17:07:20Z

ROBOBOOKS! THE RISE OF AI WRITING Once upon a time a writer had a simple task, to create something worth reading. That writer could have been writing poetry, short stories, news articles or absolutely anything else that involved constructing the written word into viable sentences. Technology evolved beyond pen and paper, we created machines we could use to strike Ink onto paper, and even that evolved into far more efficient ways of doing it, such as the electric typewriter which gave respite to tired fingers. Over the fullness of time, some absolute genius came up with the entire concept of word processing, and various other geniuses turned it into a reality, so no more did we need actual physical paper and physical ink to create work that the people could read. There were even more advancements, such as being able to dictate the words rather than touch keyboards, in fact I’m dictating this. My fingers are very happy about that! So, we have already made pen and paper “old hat”, even though not obsolete yet. Same applies to keyboards, as more & more people are taking to dictation. What’s next? The answer to that appears to be to replace the writer with technology. Now I’m going to be totally honest and tell you that there is not a single article on this entire site that has been written by artificial intelligence, and there never will be. The reason behind this is that there are already bloggers out there who are harvesting other people’s blog posts, and with a few simple instructions their AI can rewrite the whole thing so that it has the same content without the same wording, thus avoiding any copyright issues, and whole process takes seconds. Although I realise that this is incredibly useful, and would save a fantastic amount of time (and time, of course, is money!), I just couldn’t bring myself to do that. Having said that, I’m not blogging for a living, and to me there is something cathartic about sitting at a desktop computer and just rambling on about something. Every blog post I create is a “stream of consciousness”, they haven’t been laboratory created, they are just me talking to you as a friend. Every article I’ve written on this site is created the same way, sometimes I will dictate, other times I will bash the keys manually, but it will always be me. At the time of writing this, there is a growing interest and availability of artificially generated artwork. People just putting prompts, push enter, around 30 seconds later they have artwork that they could never have produced by other means. It caused a lot of arguments in the art community, and in the book community it has upset a lot of traditional cover artists. There are now authors doing their own covers with AI rather than buying them from professionals, and an upsurge in people providing $25 pre-created covers, undercutting the professionals by considerable margins. I think it’s all rather sad, as times are hard enough for those with creative businesses, so replacing them with machines does them a major disservice. That doesn’t mean that I wouldn’t use AI to create art with, as I’m contemplating doing exactly that, but in my case the AI generated artwork would be something I use across this website as it would be considerably more cost-effective than paying several dollars per picture to any of the many image vendors out there. Yes, I realise that this is the same sort of thing as not buying directly from an artist, but I will also throw my hat into the ring here and state that I actually am an artist, I have had exhibitions, and painted everything from miniatures to murals, so I’m not going to be depriving anyone by not buying original art from them, as I wouldn’t have done that anyway, I just would have created my own. In fact there are a great many instances of my own artwork around this site. Passing the donkey work over to artificial intelligence will just enable me to get a lot of images faster, so I can focus on more important things and be able to release this site to the public quicker. Okay, so you can now gather that I am okay with a bit of sleight of hand, being prepared to use artificially generated artwork, so why wouldn’t I use artificially generated text? The answer is a simple one, with the artwork it is really just there for that aesthetic appeal, but what really matters is the content of the text, and were I to artificially generate that, it would lack in those things that make me ‘Me’. There are probably people reading this who wished it was written by artificial intelligence, as it would be more concise, and the grammar and punctuation would be significantly better, but that’s another thing about doing this myself, it comes from me, with all of the errors and inconsistencies, and when I dictate or even type, I do so with people in mind, actual human beings, and talk as if I’m actually talking face-to-face with you. I embrace new technology, I love it, always have and always will, but ...

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