Yeah. I feel it writes how a lawyer or politician would. That's why I think having a personal opinion and pinning your flag to a mast will become more important if (as?) the internet gets flooded with this kind of speak.
For a few months I was more interested in creating faceless YouTube channels and videos than personal branded talking head ones. Now looking at all the AI that helps people churn out this stuff I'm leaning back towards personal branding and having strong opinions.
Indeed.
Also... If you consider it largely feeds off whatever's on the internet, even a version capable of scouring current data would potentially suffer from another issue that should be interesting for writers.
Basically, it would still need input sources to work...
So if everyone stopped writing (because of AI supposedly replacing their jobs), its usefulness would quickly get diluted. It would theoretically have less and less original content to draw from, especially on more current topics. In a world where everyone used it to create content (just being hypothetical), it would essentially be recycling its own inputs.
Therefore at least some human content creators would need to be out there creating those inputs to keep it working, right? If this didn't happen by default, then the value of high quality human writing would shoot up in response, if even just for a declining number of well paid specialists.
(I'm certainly no expert on this stuff so very possible I'm missing a lot here. I also realize it will inevitably improve a lot over time. Just thinking outloud.)
My impression as far as writers go, though, would be to either:
1) Become a very specialized kind of writer creating extremely original content (or very opinionated, as you say)... The more nuanced your ideas, the more valuable your skillset as a writer should be -- assuming we don't just all happily fall forward into a world of vanilla filler content reminding us that "it's important to remember to be nice to other people."
(If the last 5 years are any indication, I think humans will naturally push back on that.)
Or 2) Become very skilled at using this technology in high leverage ways so people will pay you big money to use it (this is where I think there are big opportunities right now). Regardless of how it's incorporated into the internet, there are plenty of valuable use cases that anyone who knows how to use it well can start capitalizing on right now.
Another thing I keep thinking about is that even people who use it to create content or copy will need to understand what makes good content or copy. How else would you know enough to edit and improve upon what it produced, or whether it was good enough to use as is?
If everyone depended on the AI, the world's writing skills would suffer as a whole. Hence making top notch writing skills in a human very scarce and therefore (once again) in high demand?
A lot to think about.
I do want to spend some time actually learning how to use this stuff. Hard to say what the future will look like but certainly a lot of economic potential here. And if we can produce amazing things without it, what can we produce by leveraging it?
Crazy to think we're just seeing the beginning.
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