Nobody starts as a Professional.
People start as Amateur, progress through Adept and toward Master.
What makes a person progress beyond Amateur?
Skill. Study. Experience.
What do you get if you allow a machine to replace the development of
Skill, Study and Experience?
You get: no further development.
You remain amateur for ever.
When the market is flooded by amateur efforts created by machines,
there is a demand for a separate, traditionalist market
for people who are Adepts and Masters.
“It evens the playing field”
Says the pro-AI-writer lobby.
So would giving amphetamines and anabolic steroids to Olympic athletes.
There is a reason it is disallowed.
“It dehumanises and reduces Human potential.”
Says the anti-AI-writer lobby.
“What if it is all we are capable of after having been dumbed down?”
Ask the observant social commentators.
If giving up on doing what is necessary, to become Adept and Master,
is considered all you are capable of;
you have not faced and overcome the very struggle
which is a part of what develops a writer from amateur to adept and adept to master.
“But I want to write a book and I am not a professional writer.”
I want to win the Olympics but I have to concede it is not my natural purpose.
‘I Want’ does not equate to developing any ability to achieve a certain benchmark.
‘Professional’ is a word which means ‘in exchange for money’.
THAT IS ALL IT MEANS.
It has less to do with Ability or Quality than ‘Professionals’ will confess to.
And yes, it is very obvious when writing is created by an AI. We can tell.
Now if you will excuse me,
I have to go back to writing ’5318008’ upside down in my calculator
to convince myself I am a professional mathematician.
Here is some stuff about The Latest Hype ™ ;
In short:
While you do have a right to make badly forged paintings if you are unethical,
most of us do not want to look at that crap anyway.
In short:
It is not up to us what you write and we refuse to discriminate against anyone.
Fair enough. Good call.
‘AI is coming for the amatuer novelists. Thats Fine.’ By Gold Beckerman:
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