References and links
I was �irst alerted to the possibilities of AI for writers by Joanna Penn on The Creative Penn podcast ( www . thecreativepenn . com ). She has written a book on AI , Blockchain and Virtual Worlds ( www . bit . ly / AI-BC-VW ) and has a course – The AI- Assisted Author ( www . bit . ly / CPC-AI ).
Elizabeth Clark , Tal August , So�ia Serrano , Nikita Haduong , Suchin Gururangan , and Noah A Smith : All That ’ s ’ Human ’ Is Not Gold : Evaluating Human Evaluation of Generated Text . arXiv preprint arXiv : 2107.00061 ( 2021 ).
Standford University ’ s report on the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models : www . stanford . io / 414Ky9p
Grammarly plagiarism checker is available as part of its Premium subscription or free here : www . bit . ly / Gram-PC
Is copyright broken ? www . bit . ly / Copyright-broken
The Alliance of Independent Authors ’ Ethical Author Code www . bit . ly / ethical-author
Tools mentioned in the article www . openai . com · www . ai-writer . com · www . rytr . me · www . hyperwriteai . com · www . podcastle . ai / editor / projects
You are probably using tools powered by AI already , including grammar checkers , the ‘ Auto ’ button on photo-editing software , search engines and dictation tools . We are already AI-assisted – this new development just broadens the scope .
I asked HyperWrite to write on the same topic . This is the unedited result :
Arti�icial intelligence ( AI ) is becoming ever more prevalent in the world of outdoor writing . Here are �ive ways that writers can make use of the technology to improve their work .
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Automated Research : AI can be used to quickly search for relevant and up-to-date information , freeing up writers to focus on crafting their work .
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Automated Editing : AI can be used to help writers edit their work , pointing out potential errors or suggesting improvements .
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Automated Writing : AI can be used to generate content from a given set of parameters , creating drafts of articles which can then be edited and re�ined by the writer .
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Automated Image Recognition : AI can be used to detect , classify , and recognise objects in images , allowing writers to quickly create captions for their articles .
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Automated Media Analysis : AI can be used to analyse audio or video content , allowing writers to quickly and easily identify interesting patterns or topics to write about .
AI is becoming an increasingly important tool for outdoor writers , and these are just a few of the ways that it can be used to improve their work .
Is it ethical to use AI in our writing ?
There are several ethical issues related to the use of AI in writing , including :
Plagiarism . I used Grammarly ’ s plagiarism checker for this article , and it found 4 %, none of which concerned me .
Copyright of the base data used to train the models . What texts are the foundation models based on ? Should the authors be paid for their contribution ? Is this different from reading books , blogs and papers as part of our research ?
Quality of the base data used to train the models . Existing gender , racial , disability and other biases from base data are built into these models . If this is not addressed by the models or the writers working with them , those biases will be ampli�ied as new writing is fed back into the loop .
Passing off AI output as our own . In Britain , any words a person creates by prompting an AI language generator are that person ’ s copyright . We don ’ t have to declare the use of such tools . But should we do so ? The Alliance of Independent Authors thinks we should . It has added a clause to its Ethical Author Code to ‘ declare the use of AI and other tools , where appropriate ’.
Definition of artificial intelligence
Open AI ‘ Highly autonomous systems that outperform humans at most economically valuable work .’ IBM ‘ Arti�icial intelligence leverages computers and machines to mimic the problem-solving and decision-making capabilities of the human mind .’ outdoor focus / spring 2023 5