A Taste of AI Writing: Can AI Replace Artists? #
That Peculiar Flavor #
I believe AI writing has become highly sophisticated. Its ability to articulate arguments can indeed rival that of humans, but I seem to detect a peculiar flavor unique to AI-generated writing. The way it structures certain sentences and paragraphs carries a distinct “model-like” quality. This means that if people use the same widely available AI tools, their writing styles tend to look very similar.
While this isn’t entirely a problem and is definitely solvable, not everyone needs to write uniquely styled articles. Especially for informational content, as long as the information is useful, having a similar style is not an issue.
Moreover, you could switch to a less mainstream AI, use specific prompts to tweak the output, or even feed your old articles into the AI as a reference database. These are all viable solutions.
My Experience #
Let me share my case: when I write art critique articles and have AI revise them, it does make the content more readable, but it also tends to overemphasize certain points, steering the article further away from what I intended to express.
And then that AI flavor emerges. People who aren’t familiar with AI-generated content might not notice it, but the distinct sentence breaks in AI writing are quite obvious. When I see others on social media using a similar writing style, I feel uncomfortable—like, why does my article look just like theirs?
This might be the most frustrating part for me. My perspective seems to lose its uniqueness after being polished by AI.
Moving forward, I might use a combination of prompts and a reference database to address this issue, especially when writing art-related articles or scripts.
Can AI Replace Artists? #
I think that while AI has always been ahead in the field of art, it has always been just a tool.
Artists have always created with specific perspectives in mind, pushing these perspectives out into the world. The tools used are merely a means of execution. In other words, the carrier of concepts has always been “humans.” While AI can also be a carrier, that would make it an AI agent, not a human-centered carrier.
This is the unique nature of the art world. Which ideas and methods of execution succeed heavily depend on “people.”