Human Touch Still Beats AI

When the public was made aware of AI, lots of people panicked. They worried about an AI invasion, something like what they saw in Terminator movies and I Robot which starred Will Smith. It reminded me of the Y2K virus scare when they worried about all computers and systems reverting back to 1900 if these systems get confused about the turn of the previous century to the 2000s.

But nothing happened. 

Someone said that about 98 percent of our fears never happen. The same with the AI scare, I believe. But what I really wonder about is so many jobs being turned over from humans to AI, not just due to higher AI efficiency, but split-second productivity. Can you imagine producing a 500-page book in just a few seconds, complete with accurate and prolific details? One non-writer "book author" was proud that he could "author" a book within a few minutes even if his grammar was the pits.

And a lot of non-writer "authors" have popped up lately like mushrooms, producing books and e-books that sell like hotcakes and make a killing. Simply give an AI app the book outline and topic you want and presto! You have a book and you're an "author" in the flick of a finger. And they are well written and researched, not by the "author" who doesn't know the difference between "they're" and "their," but by the AI. 

So what happens now to real writers?

But a few days back I have been browsing the Net for virtual assistance (VA) info to beef up some articles I was writing and hit an insight---multiple companies here and abroad are looking for virtual what-have-you----virtual assistants, virtual artists, virtual editors, virtual administrators, virtual this and that. Why? Because everything highly techie still needs the human touch. Clients and customers still want human interaction and are not comfortable talking to bots and programs and AI stuff. 

How to beat AI in securing a career! 

The same thing with book writing. Nothing beats human touch when it comes to book writing, both fiction and non-fiction. AI cannot share their "personal experience" of things. They can include other authors' personal testimonies or stories in their writeups, but that still isn't what human touch or human interest is all about. It's about the author's own personal life experience of a subject matter. 

AI can write a thousand things about parenting, but it cannot share its own personal experiences of raising up kids. It can tell you the best ways to cook hamburgers and spaghetti but it cannot share an experience of cooking them for one's kids and grandkids. It can write about how to have a relationship with God but it can never tell you how it met God personally and became a new creation in Christ. And you'd know how to easily beat AI authored books if you always write in the first person as many authors do. 

I use AI a lot for research but I carefully review everything, weeding out information and other stuff that I don't think should go in my ebook, and writing styles that do not reflect my person. I edit and re-word if need be. That's how I personalize my AI aided ebooks. And yes, you really need to always personalize your writings, blog or ebooks. Don't ust join what an AI app is doing for you. You're a non-joiner, remember?