Is AI Taking Writing Jobs?

In case you haven’t noticed while doom scrolling through social media, many creatives seem to hold a grudge against artificial intelligence. From my personal experience, I've seen popular music artists employ generative AI to create art for a poster and when their fans catch wind of it, they go as far a boycotting the poster for the sake of compelling the musician to hire an actual graphic artist to create the image.

That’s right, we’ve gotten to the point that people don’t even have the creative freedom to automate work if they see it fit. Thankfully, this scenario doesn't reoccur everywhere, it’s just a fear-based phenomenon I’ve personally come across.

Using AI tools for writing is no different, and would probably garner a harsher reaction since audiences expect words to mirror a person's or brand's sentiments online. Discover someone's been using AI-generated content almost makes readers feel tricked.

The Forbes graph above recorded consumer sentiments around AI writing and even in the cases of something as irrelevant as product descriptions, a large portion of those that answered felt concerted.

In contrast, some popular brands like Sephora have fully integrated AI and had positive results for it. I think it's safe to assume that no one can assume how using AI will effect a brand or individual's audience.

So, why so much hostility toward AI? I believe the negativity is rooted in fear. Fear that AI writing might replace human writers. Fears I don't share.

One doesn’t have to look far to find AI companies hiring content writers and copywriters instead of their own chatbots to draft their writing.

Still, if people are afraid of large language models replacing human creativity, then we should investigate if humanity is indeed on that path. Are AI writing tools taking writing jobs? Lets find out.

Table of Contents

• Writers That Lost Their Jobs to AI

• Can AI Sound Human?

• The Future of Writing With AI

• AI as a Writing Coach

• Conclusion

Writers That Lost Their Jobs to AI

Fears of AI replacing writing jobs aren’t completely unfounded, there are some instances of this. Notably, writer Benjamin Miller led a team of 60 writers and editors, publishing content for a tech company that went on to replace his team with artificial intelligence.

Miller’s writing process shifted from drafting content from scratch with his team to editing AI writing or working off AI-generated templates and outlines. This structural shift in Miller’s position may seem grim, however, the cost of hiring a writing team as large as 60 might seem a little excessive in the age of AI.

This is far from the only instance of complete replacement, but beyond professional writing in the marketing sphere, what most audiences are concerned about is AI undermining the writing careers of creative writers, novelists, and screenwriters.

Paul Schrader, screenwriter of Taxi Driver, lamented AI's impressive abilities, accepting that they surpassed his own talent at reviewing scripts, generating ideas, and writing stories from a blank page one.

In the world of publishing, there have been instances of authors plagiarizing AI generated content and claiming it's their own, only to get caught and have their reputation's tarnished beyond repair. This only reenforces the notion that human writers need not fear AI because industry bulwarks have been implemented everywhere.

His opinions are charged enough to make an aspiring writer reconsider putting time and effort into their passion. What is working in an aspiring artist's favor though, is the state of AI writing today.

Can AI Sound Human?

If you’ve noticed, ChatGPT’s text outputs do not sound very human. They sound so precise, simple, and mechanical, that an ordinary reader would have no trouble identifying the piece of writing's origin.

Undetectable tools though, can give any AI writing a human touch with a more complex, natural, and random writing style displayed in word choice, sentence, structure, and even human experience.

Still, there are limitations to the humanness of any generative AI system, no matter how human the text reads. AI models lack the emotional intelligence to engage readers on a deep level, or take them on a journey using their words.

Personal experiences don’t play a part in every form of writing though, and in the case of professional content writing for a business’ marketing, replacing their writers with humanized automation may be a the right decision.

It all depends on what a business wants. If they want simple human writing in the place of a freelance writer to do their SEO content creation, more power to the undetectable tools they choose.

The Future of Writing With AI

Artificial intelligence will continue to undergo more advancements until cracking the code of human writing, to the point where content creation is within the wheelhouse of an AI’s expertise.

However, because AI can only generate new content from pre-existing work, only a human creative will be able to create authentic disruptions in any artistic field.

From massive corporations to small start ups, every business wants to capture a creative idea that will stop someone’s scrolling dead in their tracks and doing that requires showing the audience something they’ve never seen before, and that’s a skill AI is not adept at.

So long as human writers can continue to think of ideas that push creative boundaries, they have an advantage over AI writers. If a human writer can only think within the box of pre-existing work, then in many cases, employing the AI is preferable for a business.

Creative writers need not fear, AI is here to help when used properly. Instead of using AI to replace the writing process, giving it the role of writing coach can improve a human writer’s ability exponentially.

AI as a Writing Coach

Not every human writer would like to admit it, but they all could use a writing coach at times. In this role, artificial intelligence is nothing short of a miracle. Being able to feed work into a chatbot to give a writer feedback, revisions, and ideas is not so much over-relying on AI or replacing the process of editing or brainstorming, it’s actually enhancing these ideas by having another mind to play off of.

Whether a writer can use an AI assistant for drafting essays, articles, or entire books, the role of artificial intelligence can be customized to that user's liking.

Because human writing is so natural and random, we often think of the wrong words to use in a given context. A good writer may think of a great word to use, but not the perfect word.

Employing AI to find the perfect language to incorporate into a sentence that could’ve only been constructed by a human is a wonderful way of integrating AI without sacrificing authenticity.

Conclusion

The future of writing is made more solid because of AI integration. Writers that embrace AI will improve their craft just as businesses that embrace AI will improve their content. Having artificial intelligence work beside a human is the best way of recreating the human touch in any piece of content to engage a target audience.

Undetectable AI tools are trained on human writing in all its form to make AI text feel and sound more readable and relatable. Their a good option for companies looking for full automation of their content creation strategy.

Human writers and creative writers need not fear this new choice posed to businesses though. Creative thinking is a gift that only humans have full access to, AI can recall pre-existing created works but only humans can think of ideas that are either wholly original or completely left field to disrupt a cultural status quo.