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Why fiction writers should not write with AI
Writing with AI may damage your ability to write and get published. Here is a full breakdown of the reasons you shouldn’t write using AI.
Despite what you may have heard from the hype mill, writing with AI may not be a good thing for you, especially if you are a student or a beginner writer. If you write with AI, you open yourself up to professional and personal dangers that may have long-term impact on your career and perhaps even on your ability to give expression to your ideas and thoughts.
In this article, I am going to give you a complete breakdown of why writing fiction with AI might be a mistake that you probably want to avoid if you care about your writing career.
Your Readers Hate AI
Anyone who reads for pleasure will tell you that they do not want their books written by machine learning algorithms. Readers want stories and poetry and art from writers — real flesh-and-blood human beings like themselves.
Even when they do like something made using AI, as evidenced by this study published in Scientific Reports, the appreciation disappears as soon as they learn the truth. It is possible for AI-generated works to resemble human-made art, but those who like…
