Human Writers; See Ya Later Your AI Writing Replacement is Here - by Lance Winslow

[Lance Winslow]

By Lance Winslow

Do We Need Human Writers?

There are many jobs that include writing, and creative thought. Often, there are people in these fields that make good amount of money, no most do not, but there are some that do. The question is what about all the rest? Do we really need humans to do all that writing? Think about it and think about how much better artificial intelligence is getting these days?

Did you know there is a computer scientist that has programmed software that has written 261,000 books? It's true and the program scans text in hundreds of different categories and then re-arranges the sentences using grammatical rules. Is this plagiarism?

Hard to say, it sounds like it, but he is taking information from hundreds of sources and combining them, and he has the computer re-write it all. Now mind you he's only been doing this a little while, a few years, but the eBooks he creates are readable, understandable and packed with information. Okay, so those are nonfiction books; what about fictional works?

Will someone create a computer program that can weave humor, mystery, conflict, and intrigue into a story with created characters in a realistic setting? Will this artificially intelligent software be better, worse or indistinguishable from a human author? When someone does perfect this, will they put their name on the works, would we know the difference? Would they flood the market crowding out human writers?

Folks this future is coming, so if a human writer gets too arrogant or think that they will compete in the future with computers and artificial software that writes, well, then, they are only kidding themselves. Just don't let them kid you. Please consider all this.


By Lance Winslow

[Lance Winslow]

Indeed Scott, ha ha ha, good point, yes, it will be interesting to see if there is a cited works references page.

[Scott Devereux]

Is this a technological spin on the 'The infinite monkey theorem'? I hope that there is a works cited section on the computer generated content.

[G.C. Hutson]

"Did you know there is a computer scientist that has programmed software that has written 261,000 books? It's true and the program scans text in hundreds of different categories and then re-arranges the sentences using grammatical rules. Is this plagiarism?"

Yes.....!!!

Much more importantly, it is a strict and potentially catastrophic violation of federal and international copyright law.

Depending on the circumstances, that type of protocol would likely carry criminal consequences, in addition to the massive civil damages and injunctions that the publishers of those original books will be more-than-happy to seek in federal court.

What I find most "damning" about that type of protocol, is the fact that the software creator is infringing 1000's of works, at once. If only 1% of the copyright holders sought basic, statutory damages.... that programmer is looking at Millions of dollars in liability.

They would sue him to death.

G.C. Hutson
Chief Executive
Sadien Intellectual Property, Inc.
www.sadien.com

[Lance Winslow]

Mark, I'd sure like to look into that. It would sure be of use to us in our Online Think Tank.

[Mark Dalgarno]

There are plagiarism detection applications on the market that are capable of finding copied and then modified text fragments.

[Lance Winslow]

Oh and regards to the gentleman that uses the computer program, it seems he takes many many books on a subject and re-arranges all the sentences and then mix and matches all the words. It might be hard to prove, and if he cites the books in the back of his books, you'd know which books perhaps, but you wouldn't be able to tell with any given line of text, but I bet there is a way.

[Lance Winslow]

G.C. Hutson, worse what bothers me is that I write online articles, 16,000 so far, I hold the world record, and it is a lot of work writing that much to stay on top. Right now, I have a challenger, who uses software to write one article and then make it into 10 more using the software. This is bothersome, as I have to write 10:1 to compete on an even basis. Perhaps it is through this experience, I have come to realize that I cannot keep up with him. And I see he is now paying people in India $3 per article, making each article into many and then well, you see the problem.

I wish I had $10 for everytime someone lifted an article and posted it somewhere and took full credit for it. And these folks with software helping them with these schemes, well they are changing how we do things, faster than we can catch them.

Thank you for your comment, I'll keep your information, as I may need you someday?