The tools for creating artificial intelligence (AI) have exploded this year, from Dall-E to Stable Diffusion for images to Facebook’s text-to-video tool. Now AI is coming to writers.
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Notion, the fancy online note-taking app, just announced Notion AI, designed to automatically write blog posts, reports, or brainstorm ideas. You just type in a quick prompt and the AI bot does the rest. It sounds great, especially for people who hate writing but need to generate reports as part of their job or as a class requirement. But are these tools up to par? Can they really replace human writers?
“I think this will be hardest for the writers who have allowed themselves to specialize in SEO content creation. You’re already writing with the machine as your client. Now the machine is going in-house,” professional journalist John Brownlee told Lifewire via Mastodon. “For the rest of us, I don’t think this is much of a threat and may even be useful as a tool to cut down on drudgery. But just as everyone has learned to recognize AI-generated art, humans will quickly learn to sense the contours of the uncanny valley in AI writing.”
2022 is definitely the year of AI tools. They seem to come out almost weekly, and they’re actually functional and often impressive. For example, Dall-E, Stable Diffusion, and Midjourney all let you create images in many styles with just a text prompt. These machine learning models are trained on millions of real-world images, and when you type that prompt, they repeat those human-generated images, often to surprising effect.
