So a couple of my writer buds on Twitter posed a bit of question to the group over the last week.
The essence of the question that came up was:
“How do you keep writing when people think you’re 100% using AI now?”
So I went to one of those all in one AI detector tools (Which I know full well is utter bullshit btw)
Paid for the premium version cause it then uses all of the tools out there combined to comb through the writing you upload and then it spits out random results and even highlights the text that is AI (supposedly)
I took the Declaration of Independence, some Jane Austen, Bram Stoker and Moby Dick and dropped it in to the delusion machine and this is what it spat out:
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Basically. Classic work is AI. All literature is AI. Poetry is AI. Facebook posts are AI.
It’s a big old beautiful bucket of bullshit.
People shilling these tools and trying to use it against professional writers as some wild gotcha is just hilarious.
Why is it bullshit?
Lemme tell you a little secret…
It’s almost as if all of these AI models were trained on, I dunno…
Professional writers work.
Who would’ve thought?
Like in politics and in war. You have to create the disease and then provide the cure.
AI is the disease and for the genuine creatives out there, these stupid tools are the cure.
I’ve even taken a longish voice note of mine. Transcribed it raw and popped it into the detector.
Apparently I talk like an AI, which is pretty interesting. Maybe I’m a robot eh?
What I’m saying is. Don’t panic. These tools are dumb. The people who believe everything is AI are dumb.
Now the thing is. You can tell if someone is using AI when you know about their previous content and posts.
If all of a sudden they’re writing complex pieces and they now know the difference between there, their, and they’re. It’s safe to say they’re using AI.
I’ve seen a lot of folks in my space flip to AI because all of their writing and content is now devoid of any personality and human-ness.
It’s whatever. I don’t even care anymore.
If you’re pushing words around on a screen for a living. Don’t worry about these tools and tech. They are now the digital equivalent of snake oil.
Keep writing.
Keep making art.
Cause deep down you know how true you are to yourself.
Stephen Walker.