The Writer You Could Have Been—If AI Didn’t Step In

Let’s get this straight—you’re a writer, not a prompter.

You’re meant to be one whose words will significantly impact the world and the next generation. That power should never be abdicated. Your authentic voice is a glorious echo that can never be duplicated by any artificial force.

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Writing as Connection

Writing is more than just a performance of words; it’s a connection of souls between the reader and the author. And just like any other form of expression, it must remain real.

However, the rise of AI and utter dependence on it threaten and dilute the fire of human passion, especially in writing and other forms of art. 

AI writing is more like processed foods—fast and convenient. However, just like authentic foods, real human writing has a depth that AI writing doesn’t have. 

The Real You

The person that you are has a faculty of language—empowered, competent, and growing. Sure, AI might be better today than it was during its first year, and it might even become better in the future. But there is something more profound about human capacity that can transcend any other man-made machine. Humans only lose it because we let technology subdue our intellect. 

But AI, in and of itself, is not entirely at fault; sacrificing our human genius for its sake is.

We believe that dependence on tech is the way of the future—and perhaps, it is—but it doesn’t come without a price. Time tells when our addiction to automation becomes the very thing that goes against us, instead of for us. Excessive digital offloading, for example, negatively hampers our ability to think and perform tasks. Moreover, too much screen time and reduced interest in reading and writing have become the culprits for the decades-long literacy decline.

This is not to undermine innovations. Technological advancement has proven to be useful to humans, but it calls for wise stewardship, lest we will unknowingly relinquish control over it. Humans are the ones who should do the oversight, not the other way around. 

The Writer in You

The writer in you cries to be unleashed in its most genuine form. It wants to shape an identity as unique as your personality—as real as your lived experiences.

You’re a writer who has an honor code. They know that weaving thoughts and language is a badge of prestige, earned from the war of doubts and other deluge of emotional turmoil during the writing process. 

AI doesn’t go to that war; that’s why it will always sound like an inexperienced soldier. It can always appear clean, unbruised, yet soulless and unscarred. 

But your writing is better than any machine-made mosaic of utterances. How you can grow through practice and revisions is a thousand miles worthier than an instant polished piece. 

Your process is more important than your product because it yields more solid results in the long run. 

The writer that you are, therefore, can never be leveled down to a machine, whose finished products are simply mined intellects from real people. 

Use AI for its other purpose, but not writing or making art for yourself. 

You can be messy in your drafts, dance in your thoughts, and express freely. 

Be the writer who writes with their souls and their spirits delivered from the clutches of feigned perfection. 

Never let it be a mere “could have been.”

We believe in the writer in you. Allow our human editors, who honor your voice, to help you bring it out. Send your draft and receive a complimentary 800-word sample edit now.

Sources: 

• Cognitive offloading: The brain and its digital helpers

• US high school students lose ground in math and reading, continuing yearslong decline