Rachel Baack
John Warner, a writing professor and—obviously—a writer himself, makes a case for writing and reading as inherently human activities that we not only should not but simply cannot outsource to generative AI. He argues that any “reading” or “writing” activity that an LLM can do is not the real or meaningful work of reading or writing. Warner encourages his readers not to fear AI but to rethink what it really means to write and what relationship we should cultivate (or not) with generative AI as a result of that consideration.
John Warner, a writing professor and—obviously—a writer himself, makes a case for writing and reading as inherently human activities that we not only should not but simply cannot outsource to generative AI. He argues that any “reading” or “writing” activity that an LLM can do is not the real or meaningful work of reading or writing. Warner encourages his readers not to fear AI but to rethink what it really means to write and what relationship we should cultivate (or not) with generative AI as a result of that consideration.