How I Know that AI Won’t Replace Fiction Writers
<p>A couple of years ago a friend (and fellow novelist) joined Ninja Writers, my online writing school. He wanted to participate in one of our feedback workshops.</p>
<p>Basically — in these workshops everyone brings some of their work. They take turns reading out loud and getting feedback from the other writers in the Zoom room.</p>
<p>He participated a couple of times and I finally had to talk to him, privately. The gist of that conversation was something along the lines of — Dude, what in the hell is this?</p>
<p>His writing was strange. Hollow. I couldn’t quite put my finger on it, but it was <em>shallow</em> somehow. All the parts were there, but it lacked depth. He got feedback along those lines every week, but brought back similar writing the next time.</p>
<p>Of course, people are at different points in their writing careers. And I wasn’t judging him. In fact, Ninja Writers was designed for new writers. It’s just that I could tell something was off, but I couldn’t figure out what it was.</p>
<p>We were friends, so I could ask the <em>dude, what the hell </em>question of him in a way that I wouldn’t have asked a student. His answer was: AI wrote it and he wanted to see if he could make it pass a group of readers.</p>
<p>It took me about half an hour to understand what he was talking about. This was well before ChatGBT was a thing. I’d never heard of AI writing a novel before. Or fiction at all.</p>
<p>But he’d bought a program or an app or something. I can’t remember now what it was, except that he fed it ideas and it spit out stories. He told me that I needed to learn how to do it, too, because pretty soon I’d be out of a job. But I knew, right in that moment, that he was wrong.</p>
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