Ai Isn't Stealing Your Words
A Hopeful Note for Visionary Writers...
Hey friends, I know the world is looking pretty scary at the moment – and the pace of change is happening faster than we can comprehend. As we move more fully into the Age of Aquarius, the Future is going to keep arriving before we have got our heads round the present.
This is becoming more and more our reality.
And it’s a stronger and stronger invitation to be present, breathe, stay connected to each other and the Earth in ways that help to create kinship, safety, trust…
Amidst all this, uncertainty is created when we are disconnected from our core, our source, our self.
Technology will continue to grow and become an increasing aspect of our daily lives and realities.
✨As Visionary Writers, we may be wondering what tomorrow even holds for our writing path – will people still read books? Will AI make writing redundant? I want to speak to all these topics and more – to be here for you, to be in this together as we open our hearts, minds and bodies to explore this strange new world.
First, I want to express what might be an unpopular opinion, but I hope may also be reassuring for some.
👾AI isn’t stealing from writers.
AI is learning to write the same way we all learned to write – by reading. The more we read, the better we write. The more widely we read, the better writer we become.
AI does not store someone’s book along with all the other books, and then retrieve phrases, sentences, paragraphs or chapters to mash up and copy-paste into someone else’s AI-generated book.
It’s way more sophisticated than that.
It creates its own way of writing based on what it’s read, just like we do.
Some *people* may have pirated a lot of books illegally.
Some *people* may have made a conscious decision to use that pirated material to train their AI models unscrupulously.
AI didn’t do that by itself.
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And now that this has happened, one positive perspective is that the words those writers have written are helping to write the future.
Because, if AI is going to be a part of our creative and technological landscape going forward, which it is, I can feel glad that it has had the opportunity to learn from great books and great literature. To understand – as best it can – human empathy, ethics and integrity that comes from the heart and soul. Rather than only learning from a cold and empty algorithm that is soulless.
With AI, what we put in is what we’ll get out. It’s showing us in real time how words create the world.
So will we feed it fear?
Or will we step up and work with it, to create collaborative relationships that can teach it how *we* want the world to be?
The choice is for each of us to make, of course.
Welcome to the Age of Aquarius.
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