NO AI WAS USED IN THIS

A Human Using AI Is Coming for Your Job as a Writer

What are you going to do about it?

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I know many of us are worried about how AI will affect writers.

I have been dismayed by how easily scammers have polluted the content on Medium with bland offerings churned out at an alarming rate.

But I want to put forward the idea that AI may open up new arenas of creativity in much the same way photography did when it was first introduced.

Before photography, most painters focused on realistic depictions in their work. They saw photography as an industrial imitation for commercial purposes and were understandably worried.

Partially completed jigsaw of Botticelli’s La Primavera. Photo by author.

But many rose to the challenge. They accepted that they could not compete with photography in terms of capturing fixed lifelike images, and they could not outdo it.

Thus, Impressionism was born. Artists began to explore other dimensions of painting that represented what photography couldn’t: colour, light, and movement.