Is AI Replacing Humans in Writing World?

Shazia Jabeen
3 min readAug 29, 2022
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Artificial intelligence is not just the latest buzzword, it has been moving around for many years. It’s a term that describes how computers can learn from data and make human-like decisions.

AI isn’t necessarily the same thing as machine learning or neural networks, but for our purposes here, we’ll use them interchangeably to refer to all of these things together. It is also different from existing writing tools like spellcheckers or grammar checkers because it can do so much more than those tools can do — it can generate text automatically!

Why Artificial Intelligence?

As artificial intelligence has become more in-demand technology, it seems to replace human writers altogether. But this isn’t necessarily true: AI might be helpful for some types of writing tasks but not others. This article demonstrates the importance of such text-generating assistants to write smartly and effectively.

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AI can help you write faster. An AI tool recognizes patterns and finds solutions for challenging tasks. Thus, it can be an excellent tool for writers who have trouble keeping up with their workloads while switching between different projects or writing tasks.

AI can help you write more consistently. Sometimes, writers are uncertain about their sentence and paragraph structure to accomplish the assigned task. Hence, inconsistency reveals over time, and it becomes harder for us as humans (and even machines) to try our best! However, thanks again to artificial intelligence writing software like Jasper, Copy.ai, Wordtune, Microsoft Translator, and many more.

We now have something else working against us: consistency! If one sentence isn’t clear enough, then another should come along saying precisely what needs to be said without any ambiguity whatsoever.”

AI can be a useful tool for new writers, but it’s important to know the context of AI to understand what it’s doing.

AI is not a replacement for writers, editors, or any other human. Though it can be helpful for content creators, it needs to know the framework for using it.

It has a vital role in writing because it can deal with large amounts of data at once and make decisions based on that. If you have to create content about something that happened in a timeframe (for example: “John visited his grandparents”), then you might want to use an algorithm like this one:

  • Find all instances where John was mentioned in articles between January 1st and June 30th 2019
  • Count how many times each article mentioned John (this would include mentions both within quotes from other people talking about him as well)

Take away

The most important takeaway is that AI tools can be helpful in writing. They offer a range of benefits, from helping you keep track of your story to providing structure and inspiration through the process. But it’s also essential to understand how they work and what they offer you before using them as part of your writing process.

Hope this article has given you some valuable insights into how these technologies function — and why it might be worth considering adopting them for your work!

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