I heard someone say recently that writing is a dying art.
I agree.
Art of writing, designing, and creating, everything is AI now.
I have witnessed first-hand how easily it can write a story. I have also had enough “write this, but make it sound like me” experiments that eventually ended with me getting so frustrated that I just wrote the bloody thing myself.
But somewhere in all of this, I realised there are three kinds of people.
One: The person who is fully into it. One sentence paragraphs. Two line breaks. A question at the end. The loud and proud “I use AI” kind. Honestly, no shame in that. AI has become a benchmark for people who aren't primarily looking to write, but simply want to communicate well.
Two: The person who has an original thought, uses AI to help articulate it, and then refines it. You have the thought. AI helps you articulate it. In some ways, you have just eliminated the editor.
Three: The person who is completely against it. The cognitive ability argument. The creativity argument. The “you're outsourcing the very thing you're supposed to be doing” argument.
I can understand all three. I personally sit in the second category.
But what makes me a little sad is something else. The art of the paragraph, and the written word itself, feels like it's dying.
We see something that is too long to read and immediately look for the TL;DR. Blogs are seen merely as SEO-helping tools rather than story-led information sharing. So perhaps the pen that was once mighty enough to stand against the sword might now be just a tiny touch weaker against AI.
And here's where I think the irony gets interesting.
If everyone can now write and design beautifully, and create something that looks polished... what actually makes you different?
The appreciation maybe just shifts from the words to the thought behind the words.
Your thoughts, observations, weird little way of looking at things, and your quirks will make you stand out.
Just... don't deliberately add mistakes just to make people feel like a human wrote it, though, haha!