A is for Apple Artificial

What does the word artificial mean? To put it in the vernacular, it means FAKE. Artificial sugar is FAKE sugar. There may be medical reasons to use fake sugar, but it is still fake.

In the same vein of thought, artificial intelligence is FAKE intelligence. Why is it fake? It has no ability for CRITICAL THINKING. Actually, AI doesn’t THINK at all. Rather, it collects information without necessarily the ability to determine what is and is not accurate information. In the kindest words, AI plagiarizes information that was reported as stolen. When it doesn’t “know” the answer, it makes up false information. Whether it is false case citations in legal briefs or attributing false quotes to experts in a particular field, or lacking the ability to write authentic scenes in fiction, it is at best unreliable.

It is clear to me that people who use AI to write fiction are FAKE writers. Their work is amateurish at best. Consider two recent books that used AI slop, which was confirmed—per public reports.

It seems with Shy Girl there were questions about the first cover art. And when readers started questioning whether AI was used, the author said that the editor did it. A book reviewer out of Canada gives a detailed review of Shy Girl on his YouTube channel, Frankie’s Shelf. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbeKTa5xhZo

The other recent author caught using AI wrote The Future of Truth: How AI Reshapes Reality. No kidding, I am not joking. Truth and today’s AI together in one place is a bit of an oxymoron, isn’t it? https://www.wired.com/story/future-of-truth-ai-interview/

At any rate, it is amateurish to use AI to write fiction. People who do that are going to argue about it, but there is no independent creative genius embedded in AI.

Stephen King is attributed as saying, “Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” https://share.google/mD6MbnZVlgli35o35

If a person can’t sit down and start writing, they need to learn the skills of the craft. Take university or college classes. Become an artisan.

AI probably has value in computing equations, algorithms, and other scientific/mathematical stuff, but it does not independently create original fiction.

Once AI touches a document, there should be an irremovable watermark on each page, along with a footnote that it includes AI-generated material. Even if the document is retyped on a new document, these smart people should be able to program software to detect AI use and add the watermark to the new document. In short, there should be no way to hide that AI is included in the product, especially in novels.