Working With AI
What do you think of content written by AI, and passed off as original content? To me, the quality seems off, even if grammar, spelling and all the rest looks perfect. Somehow, content written by Artificial Intelligence just doesn’t seem real.
This is because AI does not “think” or understand words the way humans do.
Rather, it generates content by analysing massive datasets to predict and string together the most statistically probable sequence of words. And often, it seems to repeat itself. RMIT Learning Lab
I actually regard getting AI to write content and then claiming it as one’s own as some weird sort of plagiarism. Getting it to paraphrase a body of work, or rewrite content without proper attribution, is still plagiarism. Alessandra Giugliano
At different times, when I’ve been stuck for words or suffered a bout of writer’s block, I have used AI to brainstorm and get ideas, but copying and pasting, then claiming credit for the content is still wrong.
These thoughts have been rattling around my brain all evening after discussing a project with ChatGPT this afternoon, when the phrase “working WITH AI” came up. This post is a result of that conversation.
Working with AI, rather than getting it to do all the work and then claiming credit, means I have had a hand in the work and done the thinking that AI can’t.
Even after years of watching science fiction movies with characters talking to robots and computers, I never thought that it would be me in that situation.
As for all the apocalyptic visions of machines taking over the world, could that actually happen? Let’s look at what is written in the third paragraph: “AI generates content by analysing massive datasets to predict and string together the most statistically probable sequence of words.”
People can think. People can reason. People can debate. Losing those abilities is where the real danger lurks.