AI in Creative Field – Let me be very honest, I have been treating ChatGPT as my best content creator for two years now, but the thing is that it is limited to my job only.
In the last few months, I have come across quite a few books that are either edited by AI or are altogether written by AI. Okay, to think practically and commercially, this might sound like a good choice for some. It might look like a useful option, but honestly, to readers like me, this sounds like an utter disrespect to the real authors and real creatives out there.
Months ago, I read an AI-edited book, and honestly, it sounded so bland and emotionless, even though the author edited it to the best of his best, but still, one can never put emotional depth into AI-written content, no matter how badly you try. I somehow read and reviewed the book because, well, it was a review copy and it came like a “job” or you can say “duty”. It felt like being cheated as a reader.
After that happened, the next month, I was in a conversation with some authors where I randomly asked their opinion on the usage of AI in the literary field. I couldn’t say it then, but it felt infuriating to my personal self when they said, “Using AI to edit books is much better than paying an editor, especially when you can’t afford one”. Okay, while I accept that if you cannot afford the editing, you might think using AI is a better option, but let me tell you a true fact: readers like me would appreciate reading your unedited manuscript than reading an AI-edited book.
You may think it doesn’t create much of a difference in your work, but as readers, we can easily identify when your writing lacks emotion. Once you feed ChatGPT your content, it will mould the content into such an artificial language that no matter how much you try, you won’t be able to edit it according to your requirements. It will make you feel that the result you got is the best version of the content, but a fun and honest fact is, the result you get can make your readers run away from your book.
Well, that was still okay. I could manage it all well, editing a book via AI… uhhhh, as much as I don’t support it, I can still manage with it, but all the limits were crossed when I came to know people are WRITING BOOKS VIA AI? Ehhhhhh, I wouldn’t name the books because well… I can’t. But it was so infuriating to get review copies of AI WRITTEN BOOKS.
Let me tell you from the start (details are going to be vague, but my base point of writing this is to share my experience). So after my conversation with the authors about the role of AI in the literary field, the month next to that I received some review copies and damn, February has been such a mess to my reading schedule, I cannot even word it out properly. So yeah, I got some review copies in February, along with a month-long review project that I was working on. The book… well, it was interesting, but the initial chapters were not something that could hold my attention for long.
Anyway, to recover from the almost reading slump, I picked up other books, hoping to get back to reading again. HOWEVER, the problem came when the book I picked lacked every possible emotion. It felt like a bland mixture of paragraphs from different moments without any emotional depth. Okay, most of you might feel like if it didn’t work for me doesn’t mean the writing was any bad, or I cannot like every book present in the world, so it’s fine if I didn’t like the book and stuff like that. But the thing is, if that were the case, it wouldn’t have bothered me that much because it’s true, not every book is for everyone. But what bothered me is the fact that the book wasn’t even written by the author. It was entirely ChatGPT. It was so infuriating that I ended up talking to some people about it, only to hear no one else had any issue with the book. Like, dude, if others are okay with it, it doesn’t mean I will be okay with it too. I have a severe hate for using any kind of artificial intelligence in the creative field, may it be any kind of creativity.
Anyway, weeks later, I faced another nightmare that just boggled my brain. I woke up to see the whole internet bursting with AI images. For half the day, I didn’t understand what was happening, but when I talked to one of my friends, I got to know about Ghibli art and how people are creating the graphics using GPT rather than having it made by an artist. Yeah, I can see your forehead creasing, thinking, what’s the issue here? Well, the issue is, the graphics aren’t easy and are similar to stealing from the actual artists because neither do they get any credits for the art nor any profits for the same. Yeah, I don’t know the technicalities behind that and am relying on Instagramic information, but these facts aren’t wrong, are they? ChatGPT should at least have the copyright to create the images. And it’s not just recently that we can create images with AI, we were able to create these graphics recently because they copied a particular art style, and the internet just blew up with it. Some people did it for the sake of giving it a shot, while some did to ‘fit in’ with their friends group. However, it wasn’t very pleasant to me and some people around me (people who are not from the creative field).
Well, I wasn’t able to recover from all these things happening when I came across another review copy. Damn, I feel like someone just cursed my 2025 reading schedule. The next book I picked is also an AI book. God damn it! I so hate it, literally! Being a reader, it feels so disrespectful to the real authors out there to see some people publishing AI-written books just to gain the tag of an “author”. Yuck! That’s such a low step to take in life. I don’t know how I am going to push past that book because taking review copies is such a responsible task, but when the books and the authors disappoint me like this… I just turn speechless. I lose my vocabulary to even think about my next words.
Yes, I work with AI-written content the whole day at my job, and I do not have any issues with using AI for content creation (meant for marketing), fetching ideas, learning something new and more. But the difference arises when people start using it in the creative field. That is something I cannot tolerate.
Being a reader, I like to appreciate the real authors, who have spent their blood and sweat in writing the book, editing it, designing it, publishing it, marketing it and more. Along with the story within those pages, the efforts to make that story come into those pages are equally important. While working on my own drafts, I see how much hard work it takes to write a book and amidst that, seeing someone publishing books via AI feels so cheated, not just as an (almost) author but as an appreciator of real art.
What are your thoughts on the matter? Lemme hear you in the comments.