Lately the headlines in my newsfeed has been about AI, and how it will be able to replace humans when it comes to creating written content. Is it possible that a computer program can create written content better than a human?
When I think of writing, I think of something personal, whether that personal is pen-to-paper or fingers-to-keyboard. I’m not certain that AI could possibly generate a post or even a book with the similar emotion that writing can convey. Is it not the writer’s word choice, voice, and style that make a text worth reading as it stirs the emotions of the reader?
Today as I sat in my counseling meeting (I’m not ashamed to admit that it is truly helping me to work through the loss of my parents that I pushed down so many years, but that is another post entirely), I talked about how I had started picking up my journal and scribbling down my feelings and frustrations. I told the counselor that I started writing and learning to close it up in an effort to push aside any anxiety I had been having. My son’s wreck has been frustrating, and I felt like I had suffered loss all over again. The extra pressure of being a caregiver and helping him left me feeling burdened again when I was just in the process of finding my place and where I fit in the big puzzle of life. I was working to create an independent son, to lessen the amount that others depended on me to pull my weight and theirs, and to free myself from overthinking. The wreck did not help. I felt like I spiraled back into old habits, so I found the journaling to be cathartic as I released, reassured, and sorted my thoughts. Is a program capable of producing this kind of emotion?
I suppose that the AI programs could produce stale, formal writing. I suppose that it could translate thoughts into an essay or article. However, I think that we would be able to identify the AI content from that of a living, breathing human. While it may be the next big push, I will remain skeptical.
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