AI is plagiarism

I don’t care for AI. I don’t care for it enough, for many reasons. Most folk today are leaping over each other to claim the title of ‘prompt engineer’. I’m sure there are a few good use cases for AI; it can be a tool in situations if used in moderation, provided you’re already a subject matter expert.

Take for example, an experienced writer. Sure, in a speedy, angry, typing bout, he or she might misspell a few words, and a grammar check is a great tool to have. Another individual might normally have struggled to put forth a sentence - in speech or in text. Now, this individual with the help of AI churns out exhaustive, daily stories with seeming flair and finesse on LinkedIn. People who don’t typically read too, like these posts. It makes for a lot of likes, and compliments, of an opinion that appears to be well put. But is it?

A few years back if I copied text from someone’s articles claiming it as my own, I’d be called a plagiarist. There are no such consequences today.

Sure, this is a rant, but I’ll reserve my view that AI can be a tool, only to those who were already great at what they did.

In conclusion, a colleague at work recently told me that he had made a song for his child using just a 3-line prompt. The song was cringey but that wasn’t the agonizing bit - it’s the bit that this man claimed his child came to tears, of joy. Another colleague told me, her daughter has written a 100 or so novels using AI. She is 12. I asked her, if someone might read some of her ‘work’ and meet her, trying to debate and discuss her work, the interaction could fall short of underwhelming.