A teenage author's opinion on AI use in the writing community

AI generated image of Unum, the sole guide of The Place Between Nowhere (PBN)

A hot topic in the writing community is the use of AI to quickly create and publish E-books that are flooding the market as it literacy and story telling tactics continues to improve. This of course has frustrated many authors and storytellers as the book market is competitive enough as it is; and people, not just writers complaining that AI steels ideas from artists in extensive data base, granted this aspect is also true in the vast majority of human authors. This is actually a literary technique to gain audiences, known as "stock plots" whether or not the writer themself performs it on purpose. They are popular story lines that have been formulated to grab a readers attention, and have been told several times over to create a sense of familiarity around new characters. For example, the unlikely love story of two enemies turn to lovers, from ordinary to extraordinary hero, stopping a world war, et cetera. The mastery of these attention grabbing plots have naturally increase the likely hood for success in the literary world, which AI has nearly unlimited access to.

However, this fact also lies at the heart of the moral dilemma AI possess as it's applications and benefits to authors shouldn't be ignored, at the same time shouldn't be used to out write author's who've been perfecting their art for years. Even though AI could bring about the depreciation of human talent in the short term, I believe the increase use of IA's perfect story telling will never replace the imperfect beauty of human story telling and writing, of which is a skill that is becoming evermore scarce. It is this reason, along with the fact that scarcity is closely related if not equal to value; the increase of IA work within the market will actually increase the appreciation of human art including writing, so long is the work can be proven as genuine. Although I am not sure how this proof would come about.

None the less, the use of AI as a visualization tool to perfect imagery, based off a provided description could be extremely useful. I used this technique to see how accurately descriptions matched the characters in my mind. For example, the picture of Unum above is the most accurate character to my provided description. In this respect, AI is a useful tool to adjust character descriptions to best help readers understand what they look like. This is especially useful for me because my characters are meant to be visually unusual, which can easily confuse readers. So I use this tool to predict a likely image my readers will imagine when reading my manuscript, as well as checking the uniquity of my characters presented. So far, The Place Between Nowhere: Blank has been the only manuscript I use this visualization tool for, but it has also been my only work that requires an agreed upon image of my character between myself and my readers. I think this use of AI shouldn't be shamed in the writing world, since helps writers develop their own skills to produce an original product or story quickly. It wouldn't be steeling anyone's art, it would be inspiration for development. The same as if one is to analyses a published text or novel to shape their own skills.