Food for Thought on AI Writing, ChatGPT

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When you know how to both cook and write.

Writing an article using ChatGPT, a text-generating AI, is like ordering food from a restaurant and telling your dinner guests you cooked it. While you shouldn’t be hired as a chef with their food, you can be a caterer, thus, giving them the credit for the meal.

If you write using AI, do you still get to call yourself a writer and be paid for it? Or does a new title need to be created? For instance, artificial writer. And should AI writing be labeled as such, Generated by ChatGPT as opposed to Written by _______ (person’s name).

Is it even legal?

According to The Guardian:

The AI is trained on a huge sample of text taken from the internet, generally without explicit permission from the authors of the material used… “copyright laundering” — making works derivative of existing material without breaking copyright.

Philosophy Professor Daniel O’Connor calls it an “automated plagiarism machine combined with plagiarism evasion software and a spell check and a grammar check”.

Writers publish their work to earn an income and to share their thoughts. It’s not an easy process to be a writer. There’s a whole lot involved that doesn’t often include a big fun dinner party.

Is ChatGPT like fast food? Or is it like processed food? Or is it just artificially generated food from previously cooked food?

If you can’t cook or write, don’t steal either.