“Chat, Can you write me a story?” One of the most prominent stories on the news this past year of 2023 was the strike performed by the Writers Guild of America as well as other writing unions. This strike was started by writers to negotiate with the film industry for better pay and job security for writers, especially in the age of A.I. With the sudden rise of Artificial Intelligence utilization in the workforce, there arises the question of whether or not writers will even be useful in the near future. Can a computer write just as good, if not better, of a story than a person can? I’m here to tell you that this cannot be true. As an aspiring writer, not only do I depend on it not being true, but I cannot wrap my mind around seeing stories produced by an artificial intelligence. This is because, while a computer can compile stories and take aspects from each of them to make something new, a computer cannot create an original story with its own morals, its own emotions–its own character. By definition, modern artificial intelligence works by learning solely from that which it is fed. Now, one could argue that humans work the same way–that we are each a product of the things that we experience. By this definition, humans must only be capable of producing things that are products of things that have already been created. However, if this were true, how would anything past the simplest necessities for survival ever exist. If one needs to experience art to create art,then art could never exist in the first place. Otherwise, how else would the first productions of human art be created? Thus lies the philosophical question of whether or not A.I. can truly replicate human art and creation. An A.I. can compile the entirety of stored human records and use the information from this to create a story that meets all of the requirements for being successful. However, an artificial intelligence cannot create in the way that a human does–by combining a mixture of experiences, memories, inspirations, and emotions. I believe that there is something to our lives as humans that is greater than our current scientific knowledge can understand. Whether you wish to believe in a higher power or simply something that we haven’t discovered yet, I believe that there is a greater aspect to our being than just our mental and physical attributes, which I believe is expressed through our creations. Unless humans choose to somehow give A.I. such a similarity to humans (which would be very dangerous,) A.I. can never create something that is truly original. Therefore, A.I. will likely not have the capacity to replace human writers for a very long time. Word count: 466
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James WilkinsI enjoy writing creative stories, but I find it refreshing to express my thoughts through blogs or journals. Archives
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