While I am the author and very much human, I do utilize AI in crafting these posts. In what way do I use it? Or, perhaps more accurately, in what ways? There are many, and I’m still exploring them myself. In one sense, as others have already pointed out, AI acts as a multifaceted tool: an advanced autocomplete, an evolved search engine, a sophisticated research assistant, and more. It is indeed all these things and more. But could it be something else? Is the AI writing the blog for me, or am I the one truly authoring the text?
Perhaps the more pertinent question is: Who is providing the creative direction? Who is making the editorial decisions? Who is approving the final draft? Who is ultimately responsible for it? Certainly it was I who prompted it. I decided what it’s about. I approved the final copy. And I am responsible for it in the real world. But the language generated by the AI did not come directly from my consciousness. Where did it come from?
AI does not generate content out of its own consciousness because it does not have any. It is a tool that produces outputs based on its programming and training data. It does not have beliefs, desires, intentions, or an understanding of the world or experiences the way humans do.
Authorship traditionally implies originality, creativity, and intent. When I ask the AI to generate something, I am providing the intent, creativity, and originality because I am guiding the conversation and choosing to include, exclude, or modify the AI responses. In essence, I am curating and editing the AI output which is a creative process itself. A reasonable perspective might be to see authorship as a collaboration where the human user provides the guiding intent and creativity and the AI provides the execution.
In the next part, I’ll explore AI as a tool, created by humans, for humans.
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