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Why I’ll Always Disclose My Use of AI Writing Tools
Transparency is the way to save this profession.
I’m barely one year into my writing journey. You could say I’m a newbie writer, but it’s been more than enough time to fall in love with this profession. I’m, however, more versed in artificial intelligence. I got into it after finishing my engineering undergrad studies around 2017 and decided to pursue it seriously. I landed a job soon after and spent the following three years working for a startup that wanted to change the world — as most AI companies do.
The combination of my knowledge in AI with my passion as a writer put me in a singular position to witness and recognize the impending future that’s about to fall over us — of which we’re already feeling the first symptoms. The AI language revolution took off in 2017. Just three years later, OpenAI released the popular language model GPT-3, an inflection point in a trend that isn’t giving any signs of stopping — and which limits are yet to be discovered.
Large language models (LLMs) like GPT-3 have permeated through the fabric of society in ways not even experts anticipated. I thought — as many others did before — that AI was a threat to blue-collar jobs; physical workers would be replaced by robots. However, with the advent of LLMs, it has become increasingly clear that…
