As we launch deeper into the new world order of artificial intelligence, things aren’t playing out quite the way anyone planned.
In the beginning, the fears arranged from AI overtaking the world to AI replacing people’s jobs, and even stealing author’s royalties for their written work as well as stealing their books.
Yes, some of these things occurred on a low level while others were sorted out by action on the part of authors, especially.
Yet the AI launch has only just begun. The race for the best AI superpower changes almost daily ChatGPT, Claude, Microsoft’s Copilot, and even Google’s Gemini are all competing for the best superpower space in the world’s new discovery.
Everyone wants the biggest piece of pie and discussions have already surfaced over where to get the electricity (and now the gas) to run and power all of these superpowered work agents.
But the question remains what do we do as writers? Even the SEO landscape shifted from Google to ChatGPT seemingly overnight. How should writers approach this?
Before we can make any major decisions, we need to understand How AI shifted the publishing landscape in the blink of an eye.
You Cannot Escape AI
I keep seeing in writing circles that publishers and contests refuse to accept work produced by AI.
I get the reasoning because AI removes the humanness out of our stories.
But the problem remains the fact that workflow already shifted into AI. If you use your computer, you are using AI. If you use grammar tools, you are using AI. Further, if you use any sort of editing, spelling, charts, or other writing software you are using AI.
AI Does Not Write Well
I have run a few experiments as I listen to people chatting and complaining about the use of AI in the writing world, and I have to say that I am singularly unimpressed with the results.
Sure, you can obtain a well written draft, especially of non-fiction, but it lacks your author voice. Even if you trained your Chatbot with your voice, you will not be able to replace yourself with AI.
Content written by AI, lacks personality and authorship, especially when you write for book publication.
Yet it will draft out a detailed outline of content that you request, when you write the right prompt.
But don’t ask it to write a fiction chapter for you because you will receive a flat almost childlike story. I found this surprising until I contemplated the fact that AI is machine language and is so factual that it remains a flat unimaginative story teller, if you will.
AI simply cannot give you a final and finished result. You must intervene with human action and either thoroughly edit an AI piece or completely rewrite it in your own human voice.
No One AI Program Does Everything
The one reality that rose to the surface when AI first hit the working world is the fact that not one program can do everything and do it well.
Because the larger AI corporations are scrambling for the largest piece of the pie they highlight all of the amazing things their chat bots do. But that does not make them the best. Only true performance does that.
Agents of course have become the new thing, but even the agents don’t really seem to do what everybody says they’re supposed to do.
So now the companies are backpedaling a bit chatting up the idea that they are working hard to make their agents perform even better. But we aren’t there yet
Just like any other app or webpage you use each company performs better in one area or another.
The key point highlights the fact that no company can do everything the best.
Sure, there will be leaders as we have seen rising to the surface and begging for your money so that they can have more profits to build more electricity farms.
However, the competition remains stiff and there remains little stability in the whole issue.
The business of creating AI became more of a business, but it launched a new discourse that we have only just begun.
In summary
Everyone who writes and publishes books needs to get on board the AI train.
it creates faster workflow, and while it does not think for us, it does admittedly offer suggestions to improve our productivity.
Will it become Hal from the movie 2000? I doubt it, but we may find that having conversations with a chat bot may occur more frequently than we know.
As for the written word, I think we will be able to write more books faster, but we need to remain cognizant that a machine cannot replace us as writers 
