Take the same story written by AI. If AI created such a storyline that struck a chord, it would be happenstance. It may have followed some mechanical path to reach its destination, but how can there be meaning if AI doesn\u2019t seek to communicate in the first place?<\/p>\n
AI\u00a0doesn’t try to teach us anything. It doesn’t want\u00a0to inspire or entertain us. It simply doesn’t care. As a society, why would we hand over something so precious as creation to an entity that couldn’t care less what it’s doing?<\/p>\n
AI vs. Real Authors<\/b><\/strong><\/h2>\nA sad trend has emerged where authors feel the need to prove that they are not AI. Proving a negative is usually a ridiculous notion. And while I wouldn\u2019t want anyone to think my work is AI-generated, I don\u2019t think it\u2019s wise to bow down to weird AI-repudiation techniques.<\/p>\n
For example, apparently AI tends to use dashes and semi-colons a lot. As a result, some authors are taking them out of their work. The folly here is that punctuation has always been a tool for the writer to emphasize or connect ideas. We shouldn\u2019t give up some of our most powerful methods to prove that we\u2019re not soul-less bots generating entire stories.<\/p>\n
Eventually, writers could end up stripping so much out of their work that it loses all flavor and cohesion. When you subtract from yourself to prove a negative, you only end up with a skeleton in the end.<\/p>\n
AI-Generated Images<\/b><\/strong><\/h2>\nOn my site, I keep images, such as character portraits, settings and the like, as authentic to the best of my ability. I turn off AI options when searching stock photo sites, which unfortunately still yields some AI results. If I have any question about whether a picture is AI, I tend to avoid it. Often, I\u2019ll check the upload date: If it was uploaded before the AI-driven era, I feel pretty safe using it. It\u2019s not a perfect system because of AI infiltration, but it\u2019s as close as most of us might get.<\/p>\n
Some may argue that limits the type of imagery available, but I feel it\u2019s worth it. Besides, as someone who does both writing and graphic design, I don\u2019t mind doing image-editing to make an illustration look more like my characters (image editing is allowed in the terms of most stock image sites). This will age me a bit, but I learned to do a lot of design work manually that has since been become \u201cclick to get results.\u201d Overall, graphic designers have always created composites, and there\u2019s no reason to hand that over to AI, either.<\/p>\n
No Mechanical Brains Here<\/b><\/strong><\/h2>\nPersonally,\u00a0I don’t want to read a story written by a mechanical brain synthesizing thought or creation. Sure, the whole thing seems like some cool sci-fi concoction, but let\u2019s face it: Generative AI would have worked better remaining a fictional technology. Ian Malcolm from the movie Jurassic Park <\/i><\/em>talks about being \u201cso preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn\u2019t stop to think if they should.\u201d<\/p>\nAnd so it goes with generative AI1<\/sup><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\nSo know that Of Squires and Knights<\/i><\/em>, its related short stories and any other literature you find here are created by\u2026yes, an actual human being. I hope you\u2019ll forgive my slow writing as a result. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Note:<\/em><\/p>\n1<\/sup><\/span>I’m making the distinction of “generative AI” on purpose. There is some AI that can save lives, such as medical robots doing procedures impossible for human hands. The key is discerning appropriate uses such as this.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n
On my site, I keep images, such as character portraits, settings and the like, as authentic to the best of my ability. I turn off AI options when searching stock photo sites, which unfortunately still yields some AI results. If I have any question about whether a picture is AI, I tend to avoid it. Often, I\u2019ll check the upload date: If it was uploaded before the AI-driven era, I feel pretty safe using it. It\u2019s not a perfect system because of AI infiltration, but it\u2019s as close as most of us might get.<\/p>\n
Some may argue that limits the type of imagery available, but I feel it\u2019s worth it. Besides, as someone who does both writing and graphic design, I don\u2019t mind doing image-editing to make an illustration look more like my characters (image editing is allowed in the terms of most stock image sites). This will age me a bit, but I learned to do a lot of design work manually that has since been become \u201cclick to get results.\u201d Overall, graphic designers have always created composites, and there\u2019s no reason to hand that over to AI, either.<\/p>\n
No Mechanical Brains Here<\/b><\/strong><\/h2>\nPersonally,\u00a0I don’t want to read a story written by a mechanical brain synthesizing thought or creation. Sure, the whole thing seems like some cool sci-fi concoction, but let\u2019s face it: Generative AI would have worked better remaining a fictional technology. Ian Malcolm from the movie Jurassic Park <\/i><\/em>talks about being \u201cso preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn\u2019t stop to think if they should.\u201d<\/p>\nAnd so it goes with generative AI1<\/sup><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\nSo know that Of Squires and Knights<\/i><\/em>, its related short stories and any other literature you find here are created by\u2026yes, an actual human being. I hope you\u2019ll forgive my slow writing as a result. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Note:<\/em><\/p>\n1<\/sup><\/span>I’m making the distinction of “generative AI” on purpose. There is some AI that can save lives, such as medical robots doing procedures impossible for human hands. The key is discerning appropriate uses such as this.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n
And so it goes with generative AI1<\/sup><\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n So know that Of Squires and Knights<\/i><\/em>, its related short stories and any other literature you find here are created by\u2026yes, an actual human being. I hope you\u2019ll forgive my slow writing as a result. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Note:<\/em><\/p>\n 1<\/sup><\/span>I’m making the distinction of “generative AI” on purpose. There is some AI that can save lives, such as medical robots doing procedures impossible for human hands. The key is discerning appropriate uses such as this.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n
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