When I was in my Senior Secondary level, our Bengali teacher simply defined the difference between technology and the human brain. She told us that science can ensure speed and accuracy, but it lacks the emotion of human psychology. When Artificial Intelligence run chatbots like Chat GPT have become the talk of the world today, people are concerned about the future of creative and critical writing by human beings. The biggest dilemma in today’s world is if AI Chatbots like Chat GPT and Google Bard are going to take over the jobs of producing literature for the next generation.
Chat GPT, a natural language processing tool, helps users write creatively and critically. Unlike the search engine results that often make you perplexed about which content to follow, Chat GPT offers you a simple text-based answer to your queries or requests. You may ask the AI Chatbot to compose an email for you or write a poem on any specific theme. It will produce a simple and single result as per your requirements. In this blog, I have discussed how AI text-generating services will have an impact on creative and critical writing across the globe in future.
AI Tools for Composing Poems or Writing Stories
Asking Chat GPT for a poem or story can be experimental, but you cannot claim legal authorship of any AI-generated text. The latest AI writing services like Chat GPT have enough intelligence to compose a poem based on your query, but if you compare the poem produced by AI tools and the poems by world-famous poets like William Wordsworth, W. B. Yeats, Pablo Neruda, Rabindranath Tagore, you can simply see the difference. A poem is a text not only about narrating a topic in rhymed verse. Rather it deals with human emotion, social issues, political scenarios, and so on. Otherwise, a poem has a specific metre and diction that makes it different from prose. If we see the manuscript of the world’s notable poets, we can be assured that comprising a poem had never been so an easy task. A poem composed by AI tools can never reach that level of perfection that a human brain can achieve.
The same applies to stories written by human writers and AI services. There are plenty of websites now across the internet domain that offers you AI story-generating service. They generate stories for you in different genres like humour, classic, SciFi, Romance, Realism, Thriller etc. For instance, I asked Chat GPT to write a story on the 1947 Partition. We are acquainted with so many stories of Partition by notable writers of India and Pakistan such as Bapsi Sidhwa, Amitav Ghosh, Sadat Hasan Manto and so on whose stories give us insights into trauma, pain, and emotional detachments of the people of divided India and Pakistan. The story produced by Chat GPT is about a girl named Aisha whose family had to migrate from Lahore to Amritsar after the Partition. I got the AI-generated story a flat and linear narrative that can never touch the height of “Toba Tek Singh” by Manto when we judge their content, aesthetic quality, historical sense and emotional appeal.
Chat GPT for Research
Now the trending questions on the internet are: Can I use Chat GPT for writing my research paper? Can I use Chat GPT for writing books? Can I use Chat GPT content for my research? Can I claim authorship of Chat GPT content? If you are perplexed about how AI writing tools like Chat GPT and Google Bard can help you in writing research articles, the answer is that you can not use them directly at any cost. It is illegal to claim authorship of any piece of writing that has not been done by you.
Research work should never follow any unethical way of representing data or information. In a research paper or book you present your finding based on your readings, theorisation, lab works or empirical study. In a research article for a journal or book, you need to acknowledge all the sources from where you have collected information for your writing. In a text generated by Chat GPT, you don’t get information about the sources of information. Hence you cannot present them directly. In most cases, the limit of plagiarisation is a maximum of ten percent of your entire text. If you use Chat GPT content so frequently in your research work, your might be accused of plagiarism which is not good for your research career. Otherwise, the latest upgradation of plagiarism detection software and services like Turnitin can detect texts generated through AI Text generating tools. So, don’t fall into the trap. Use your brain rather than depend on Artificial Intelligence for producing your research work.
AI Tools for Writing Blogs
You can use Ai tools for writing blogs, but you had better not use the content directly. If your blog is intended for boosting SEO, then it is better to be creative. According to recent research, Google’s machine learning algorithm can detect texts generated by Chat GPT or other AI tools. Google’s algorithm always gives priority to the creative texts that have been produced by the human brain rather than any AI-generated tools. The algorithm detects texts and considers them as plagiarised according to the texts’ structure, grammar and all other symmetries. So, your AI-generated blogs might not help take your website to the top list of Google Search Results.
AI Tools for Writing Emails and Official Letters
Yes, you can trust Chat GPT and other AI text-generating services for writing something for your office work. Suppose you are going to take leave for 3 days for your sister’s marriage, you need to invest 30-60 minutes in comprising an email for permission from your office. Chat GPT can do it just within a few seconds. When you write this kind of official document, your writing is not connected to any issues like copyright and plagiarism. So, you can ask the AI tools to write an email for you or compose an invitation letter for any personal program. You can also use AI writing tools for writing scarps like social media posts, or WhatsApp messages that you want to forward to your dear ones or peer group.
In the era of Artificial Intelligence, you should still believe in your brain which is superior to any tool based on Artificial Intelligence. AI text-generating services can be helpful for trivial works like composing an email for you on common but not any personalised issues. It can never replace human writers for producing serious literature be it critical or creative.
About the Blogger
Sanjib Kr Biswas (PhD, IIT Patna) is a blogger, researcher and creative writer by passion and a teacher by profession. He has published books and research papers with Bloomsbury (India), Routledge (UK), Asiatic (Malaysia), Bridgewater State University (USA), etc.