How to feel better about your future as a writer when you’re daunted by AI
Unless you’ve been sleeping in a tunnel with no wifi, you’ve seen the rapid recent improvements in artificial intelligence.
If you’ve played around with tools like Chat GPT and Claude AI, you’ll know how good this stuff is getting at writing.
Writers and creatives alike are going through a bit of an existential crisis thanks to these advancements. It can be scary.
What if, like me, you want to continue writing well into the future, and you want to write books, improve your craft, and make money from writing, too?
AI’s ability to write well will undoubtedly accelerate. We will reach a point where we won’t be able to tell the difference between an AI-written piece and the work of another human writer.
We’ll reach a point soon where we can give our robotic little friend a prompt to write a science fiction novel about intelligent cats on Mars, written in a style that combines the work of Alex Garland and Jeff Vandermeer (two of my favourites). And it will write a great book.
It will even create a movie just the way you like it — eventually, in a matter of seconds.
So what are we supposed to do?
