The Fallacy of AI Replacing Your Job

AI, at this moment in time, February 2024, cannot replace your strengths. Stop being fooled by doomsayers and alarmists who fear the worst, promote tragic outcomes, and all sorts of claptrap to hook you into doubting yourself.

Does using a keyboard make you a conversationalist? Can a keyboard understand interpersonal nuance?

The answer is a resounding no.

The same is true for using tools like Bing or ChatGPT. They are inanimate tools with no brain of their own. They are not Generative AI. As a writer of stories and memoirs, people constantly ask me if AI will take over my job. Of course, it won’t. AI cannot write stories using the delicacy of tone, voice, geographical influences on upbringing, slang, quirks in character, or shades of descriptive narrative. That is the work of a human's creative mind. AI cannot get “in the flow.” Nor can it develop characters for a novel.

When you input, if you define such inputs of all the thousands of neurological connections that make up the persona you are writing about, you could write it yourself since you are creating it from scratch. Why would you use AI for that? It would be disingenuous and a total waste of time.

Even though ChatGPT can generate stories using human language, it is based on the input of its programmers and users. I asked…