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Why AI won’t make you a better writer


Don’t let anything, least of all AI, cheat you out of what is creatively possible. Go forth and write your own story.

But what, indeed, of an event like NaNoWriMo — where participation is purely voluntary and purportedly to hone one’s individual process, rather than to provide a framework for group learning to a classroom of children (or very young adults)? It could be recreated by anyone with the right set of prompts, and once the human in front of the screen gets sick of Kermit, he’ll quickly move onto icons featuring Miss Piggy, or Animal, or any one of myriad Muppets. Needless to say, the same logic applies to AI-generated “writing.” If something can be replicated so easily, so thoughtlessly, ad infinitum, how can it hold any real creative value… and how can it give us authentic, long-lasting joy?

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