Writing is Alive

Ever heard the saying, “Writing is thinking”?

At its best, our writing gives voice to the thoughts in our brains: the unexpected connection, the subtle nuance, the underlying hope.

The words lift themselves off the page and shimmer with meaning.

This is when writing is alive, lit with the spark of another person’s thoughts.

Because writing is thinking, we can tell when there’s no human brain behind the words. We can tell when a large language model has plopped those words together just because they happened to appear together numerous times in its training material.

As humans, we all want to read words written by a real human. We are looking for the human mind behind the writing.

Yes, AI can seem dazzling with its perfect grammar and consistent tone.

Read it again.

It is threaded together with a depressing flatness. It reads as detached and boring because it is not alive.

No human thought those thoughts and strung them into a necklace of words.

We deserve better. Our readers deserve better.