Although it is a story now past well gone, but do you
remember the Hollywood writer’s strike?
I never really paid too much attention to it, not until today. Apparently, there was a lot more at stake
than I had realized. At the crux of the matter was how Artificial Intelligence
(AI) would impact the writer’s ability to get the much-deserved credit, and
most importantly, compensation for all of that hard work.
Probably even last year, this would not have been an issue
at all, or even long before that. As I have
written before, AI has been around for a very long time. In fact, I wrote an entire book about it, and
I covered in some detail as to how AI will never be even remotely close to the human
brain.
The best that it will ever achieve in terms of business dominance
is being used for automation purposes for mundane and routine tasks, and possible
augmentation to other processes.
The primary reason why AI has become such a furor is the dawn
of ChatGPT. It seems like everybody I know uses it, for good reasons of course. But in the world of writing, no matter what the
form is, authors and writers are now using this platform to create novels,
books, manuscripts, etc. While there is
nothing legally wrong with this, I find ethical issues with it.
I mean I am all for using ChatGPT as an aid, or a supplementary
tool, but not for using to write an entire manuscript. You see, there is really nothing magical
about ChatGPT. It once again uses AI
algorithms, most notably those of the GPT4.
So, to give you an idea of how it works, you simply tell ChatGPT the permutations
of the content that you want to write, and wham-bham, it will give you something
in just a few minutes.
But keep in mind that this is not original
content!!! Remember, ChatGPT
is nothing but garbage in and garbage out.
So, as the input to give you your desired output, it will need content
from other books, texts, manuscripts, etc.
The problem here is that ChatGPT will not tell you where it extracted
its information from. So if you end up
somehow publishing this work, you run the risk of a lawsuit, if other
authors and writers see that their work is in yours!!!
In fact, just recently, there have been a few lawsuits in
this regard. For me as a technical
writer, I hardly put any emotion or throughs into the words I write. My job is to merely take all of the complicated
stuff that happens in the Cybersecurity world, and bring it down to a level
that anybody can understand and apply.
Probably the best example of this is these blogs I write.
I look up articles on the Internet to see what the latest
happenings are, and write it in such a way it is meaningful to you, and that
you can apply it somehow in your everyday life.
I have never used ChatGPT for anything I have ever written, and I don’t
ever intend to.
It is my most heartfelt opinion that a writer or an author should
be able to write content on their own, using their own style and voice. Of course, one will need resources to use,
and that is why there is Google, and I guess to a certain extent, ChatGPT.
But if you are a novelist or a creative writer of different
sorts, ChatGPT will be of no use to you.
You see, AI cannot output sentiments, emotions, feelings, or anything like
that. It only gives you a directed output
to what you are asking directly, through the various queries that you submit to
it.
So in this regard, you need to learn how to create meaningful
queries, which are also known as “Prompts”.
In fact, a whole news of social science has evolved into this, officially
known as “Prompt Engineering”.
My Thoughts On This:
Back to the Hollywood saga:
Eventually, the writers were able to an agreement to a contract. They will get compensated and credit for the work
that they have done, but in return, if they use ChatGPT or any other type of AI
tool for content generation, then they have to explicitly state that in their
respective manuscripts.
Will we see more of theses kinds of disputes and lawsuits
down the road? I predict that there will
be. As ChatGPT evolves further, writers
and authors will have different purposes for using it. But I sincerely hope that anybody in the
writing field, no matter what it might be, will use their natural brain much
more so than an artificial one.
If you want to see an article which details some ChatGPTs disadvantages,
click on the link below:
https://www.darkreading.com/application-security/chatgpt-other-generative-ai-apps-prone-to-compromise-manipulation
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