Instalment Four – The effects of AI on editors, proofreaders, copy editors, developmental editors and ghostwriters.
The incredibly fast development of Ai has caused a shockwave that appears to be threatening the livelihoods of factory workers and owners, farmers, particularly smallholdings, and a wide range of people involved in academic fields whose livelihoods depend on the survival of the English language.
Many academics are concerned that platforms such as ChatGpt will take the place of human writers and editors. One can see this clearly when one looks for information about all subjects known to man.
However, the partners at Busy Bee Editing, Brenda and Hugo, who were justifiably concerned about robotic programmes taking away the jobs of writers, call centre operators, engineers and myriad other occupations, including editors like ourselves decided to do a deep dive into the effects of AI on all aspects of life and robotics.
What we discovered was that far from taking away people’s jobs, AI can actually improve the work of academics, writers, editors and the like by giving them access to wonderful AI tools that can help them to achieve a higher standard of writing by inviting them to use AI to:
- Improve grammar and spelling.
- Generate creative ideas for writers to take advantage of.
- Download AI generated graphics and pictures to enhance the text
- Even write articles for writers in fields they are not familiar with – however, we do not advocate students and graduates to overuse these facilities verbatim because plagiarism watchdog programmes will detect such overuse and impose penalties.
- While you are writing, if you are writing while using platforms such as Grammarly, Google or WordPress is that miraculously grammatrical and spelling corrections pop-up in the text that you can accept or reject, without having to go elsewhere on the Internet to access the information you need; as if you had an assistant sitting right beside you as you write.
These are just a few of the tools that can assist writers, editors and academics in general and the wonderful thing about such programmes is that they are often provided FREE!
Another fantastic result we have observed about the advances of AI technology is that, contrary to popular belief that human creativity is disappearing due to AI advancement, we have noticed an upsurge in people who have been inspired to write more; particularly among the youth.
Another thing about AI is that there are now literally thousands of opportunities for you the witer, to monetise you literary output to create wealth!
The other aspect about all this is that; for the foreseeably future, no computer programmes will be able to take over human creativity; so, during our lifetimes at least, no one in academically inclined fields will lose their jobs.
The trick is to work hand-in-hand with computer and AI technology to produce better outcomes for all.
The upshot of all this is that AI is not your enemy! It is your friend. I ask you – Where would we be today without Google to help us to find out about absolutely everything?
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