Novelist and journalist Jane Borges writes--
I came to a realisation that a language model, no matter how perceptive, will never be able to replicate me—capture my intention, thoughts, the world I inhabit, complete with the flaws and imperfections of my voice. As a writer, I am very aware of the fact that the day I let my voice be eroded or superseded by a mimicking model, I will lose everything that I spent years building and honing.”
Borges is right, because if there is one thing AI cannot replicate, it’s how writing makes me feel, how badly I want to do this, how much I need to write. Art carries something special within itself; all work reflects the hours spent and the mistakes made by the maker to arrive at something beautiful. I would like to see a machine try and do that.
For young readers and writers who still hope and dare to dream despite everything, Booker Prize–nominated author Avni Doshi has a flaming war cry: “We cannot give up. This is more than writing a single book or even a career. We are fighting for our souls and the souls of future generations. Resist, resist at every turn. Do not let them extract from you. Find your audience, your community. Read to each other, write for each other. Buy physical books that cannot be censored by Amazon. Write by hand. They are vampires. You are life. You are the messy miscalculation, the complicated feeling that has not been given expression before, the awkward syntax, the particular idioms of your ancestors—and we need to read you more than ever.”
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And AS A WRITER NEITHER WILL I GIVE UP BUILDING MY OWN MESSY WORLD WITH WORDS NO MATTER HOW IMPERFECT THEY ARE. :-)
