ChatGPT on Creative Writing

Recently, everyone worldwide has been very interested and paying much attention to the appearance of an AI (Artificial Intelligence) tool called Chat GPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer). Dubbed the world's most innovative OpenAI, ChatGPT is an AI chatbot auto-generative system to help people who access.

Launched in November 2022, ChatGPT is trained on large volumes of online text to generate natural and human-like responses from the internet. It can answer complex questions, write computer code, and write essays and blogs. ChatGPT reached over 100 million users in January.

Besides excitement, there is fear. People fear losing their jobs and being permanently replaced by a technology that is too smart and constantly evolving.

With its strength in writing, ChatGPT can have the potential to replace writing-based occupations. In an article by Business Insider, there are ten jobs that ChatGPT may replace, and creative writing jobs are among them.

Professor Irena Praitis, the Chair of the English department at CSUF, said that we are the only one who has experienced writing with an idea of its sensory details and can put it into a computer, but then it's not us.

“I can't say I give you my word and turn over a ChatGPT document. That's not my word. It's a compilation of a whole bunch of words,” Praitis said. “It's doing something, but it's not doing that work. And so for me, the biggest risk is that we're in a world where we're constantly in need of authentic voice and authentic interaction, and we're constantly bombarded with tools that are telling us ‘well, use this instead.’”

Japanese professor Hitoshi Matsubara at the Future Hakodate University surprised everyone with a short-form novel written using AI. Notably, this work has qualified for the Hoshi Shinichi Award, a literary prize for short science fiction.

At that point, Matsubara’s teammate, Sato Satoshi, developed an approach for writing a tale using a set grammar and a system that allows the computer to write it into a narrative text, then programmed the AI to write them into complete paragraphs and a meaningful story. Remember this, it happened in 2016.

7 years later, AI has become more intelligent, and right now, ChatGPT takes less than a minute to generate an academic essay, which could take a human an hour (or more) to write if it was a piece of text that requires thorough research.

At the present time, with the ability to quickly search and filter information, over 200 e-books are available in Amazon’s Kindle store in mid-February with ChatGPT as an author or co-author. Soon, ChatGPT can win a Pulitzer or a Nobel prize for literature. Who knows?

But because of that, ChatGPT can be seen as a "companion," helping shorten the research time. Instead of spending time reading each book, we will just need to double-check the authenticity of the book. information after completing a text.

Dr. Angela Della Volpe, Professor of Linguistics at CSUF, said in an email to the Daily Titan that ChatGPT is a great tool if used properly. “As with any tools, there can be misuse. In my opinion, it will not replace creative writing, but it can be instrumental in teaching the mechanics of writing.” Della Volpe said.

Still, as with any revolutionary technology, it will be difficult to accurately predict how AI will change our lives over the next few decades. One day, content creators, journalists, and writers may be replaced by AI because it will learn independently from texts on the Internet and collect and analyze data without human help.

Even one day, when AI becomes so great that it can replace humans in writing, humans will still write. Language is a bridge, connecting people to people across space and time. It helps people understand each other and understand themselves better.

If one side of the bridge, the writer or the reader, can no longer perceive the meaning of the written words, the bridge will collapse. AI can write for you, but it cannot think or feel for you.

“If we're using [ChatGPT] to write the novels and the stories that we share with each other, we're simply sharing all of those things over and over again, without having someone in a position to call it into question and to write the language that's working really hard not to do those things. That's another danger,” Praitis said.