Have you noticed that the engineer, the doctor, the painter, the politician, and the journalist all write the same way nowadays?
In today’s world, both in printed media and on social networks, we are seeing more and more texts that resemble each other in terms of writing style.
The world is beautiful because people are different. When all texts begin to sound almost identical, we lose not only the style and individuality of each person, but also the most important thing in communication: the credibility of the text itself.
This uniformity in writing, which is becoming more irritating day after day, has a name: Artificial Intelligence.
Empty phrases like, “This is not just an agreement, it is a testament that every step has a cost…” or forced metaphors such as, “prices that frighten even the clouds,” are typical structures generated with a single click. Ready-made hyperboles, artificial contrasts, and a synthetic “flavor” are filling the pages of newspapers and social media feeds.
Posts genuinely written by human beings, i.e. produced by the human mind, carrying a unique style, because every human being is unique, are becoming increasingly rare. We are losing sentences with nerve, human mistakes, humor, irony, and personality.
In the not-so-distant future, we may find ourselves struggling to discover a truly “organic” piece of writing, something written by a human being using the full capacity of their creativity and intellect. Human-made writing will become a kind of “premium” product in the near future, and people may even pay to read it.
A great effort must be made not to lose our identity. Because if human identity disappears from writing, fewer and fewer people will continue reading. They will grow tired of texts written with the same style, rhythm, and intonation, texts that are entirely artificial.
Kudos to everyone who still dares, or takes the time, to write and publish texts created by the human hand and the human mind.
SN is resisting the temptation to use AI-generated writing. That’s great!
I think the best way to guard against this is to read a wide variety, and look up authors who are known for the quality of their prose (in non-fiction as well as fiction) and experience their writing
I don't typically write with the robots. but sometimes I catchyself using these cliche phrases. when I do, I try to make them extra weird so readers will wonder
Human imperfection over synthetic perfection.
It's like that quip: I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you!
Writing is an important way and process of sharpening your thinking. So for the author they're skipping the whole step of becoming an expert on subject matter.
For the audience the question depends on the point of reading. I recently heard a very fine speech given at a conference that had a heavy AI feel, but appreciated it being better than so many shitty possibilities. It was like yeah nice rhetoric and way to keep it compact! We all know such a speech is a formality so why not get a good quality product out to the people. I would feel the opposite if I wanted a unique personal take from like a celebrity.
This all really plays with expectations and perception of value. I think the trademarks of AI will fade but our perception of what a given author had to do with their output will continue to grow as a question.
I don't know if the people who write like that are getting what they think they're getting out of it.