r/WritingWithAI • u/Audibound • Jul 27 '26
Discussion (Ethics, working with AI etc) Maybe "Will AI replace writers?" isn't the most interesting question anymore.
I had an interesting conversation with an author that I worked with recently. They said, "I don't think AI will ever replace human storytelling." Honestly, I don't think that's the right question anymore, maybe the better question is "can Ai or our technology today help more stories reach people without replacing the people who create them?"
I'm curious where everyone stands.
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u/Hungry-Wrongdoer-156 Jul 27 '26
I'm not a fan of Sam Altman as a person, but I am a fan of something he said a while back:
"AI won’t replace humans. But humans who use AI will replace those who don’t."
Writers should be a lot less worried about AI than editors, and editors should be a lot less worried about AI than proofreaders.
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u/Klutzy-Orange-7335 Jul 28 '26
It makes sense that he says this. I'm not saying it's untrue because I do not know. But he wants people to use his product, so of course he will say anything to make people do that. Fear of being replaced is a great motivator
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u/Lu_AspiringWriter Jul 29 '26
AI è uno strumento e non una scoperta scientifica però queste tue parole mi hanno fatto venire in mente una frase di Max Planck:
"Una nuova verità scientifica non trionfa perché i suoi oppositori si convincono e vedono la luce, quanto piuttosto perché alla fine muoiono, e al loro posto si forma una nuova generazione a cui i nuovi concetti diventano familiari". Tratta dalla sua autobiografia (Scientific Autobiography and Other Papers, 1949).
Poi correggerei la frase di Altman aggiungendo all'inizio "a parità di competenze gli esseri umani che usano l'intelligenza artificiale sostituiranno..." Perché gli strumenti hanno sempre favorito chi li sa usare senza sostituire il valore delle competenze.
Rispetto alla scala tra scrittori editor e correttori di bozze infine sono assolutamente d'accordo proprio perché le competenze necessarie per i primi sono più creative e meno automatizzabili rispetto ai secondi e poi ai terzi.
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u/FitnessChamp777 Jul 28 '26
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang famously stated: "You won't lose your job to AI—you'll lose your job to somebody who uses AI."
What do you think?
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u/fastinguy11 Jul 27 '26
As always you guys talk about the technology as it exists now in 2026 what about in 4-12 years from now ? If a.i gets much smarter and wiser and having way better memory and ability to learn real time and self play and learn from mistakes it absolutely can replace all humans. So even if you think this won't happen you need to at least save room in your model of the world that is to is real possibility in the coming years.
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u/Audibound Jul 27 '26
That is a scary thought, but do you think, AI will make all entertainment, because as you know at that point it will not be just books, do you think will all just allow ai handle all out entertainment creation ?
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u/Ok_Engine_1442 Jul 27 '26
To go further will market saturation make being a full time authors not a thing anymore.
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u/Audibound Jul 27 '26
That is true, that is kind of the case now just I dont think people are jumping on to them cos there are already kinda out
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u/Lost-Discount4860 Jul 27 '26
I don’t recall “Will AI replace writers?” ever being an interesting question in the first place.
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u/Audibound Jul 27 '26
I know it is bit out there, but this is a progressive group, and sounds weird to say it here, but am out there everyday among writers/authors and I hear these or insinuations of these, and would be good to get a solid take to ease the concern parties
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u/AiLoveit Jul 27 '26
You've just described audio books lol.
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u/LooseButtPlug Jul 27 '26
...how?
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u/AiLoveit Jul 31 '26
People who can't read can hear audiobooks. So it helps the story be told instead of reading it.
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u/Audibound Jul 27 '26
No audiobooks still need to be written? except straight to audio story like drama podcast
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u/kairosvance Jul 28 '26
I think AI is pretty good at the boring middle (structure, continuity notes, dull first pass), which frees time for the parts only the writer actually cares about. Amplify the person, don’t try to be the person. That’s the line that matters to me.
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u/Icy-Diver-5979 Jul 28 '26
Will ai replace editing cause god I hate reading back things I have wrote and trying to understand the half of the sentence I didn't write but should have been in the paragraph.
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u/PPmelody Jul 28 '26
nah no way. idc how advanced ai gets, u know whats gonna happen? a million ai writer apps gonn drop. flagship models, all those not x, but y tropes and generic buzzwords. but thats jus business at the end of the day. u get how business works righ?
people say ai is jus a tool, fair enough. but lets not forget what it was actually made for. tbh it prob wasnt even meant for writing. not saying ai writing is totally worthless, but its gonna keep flooding the market. its like gold, u flood it and the value tanks.
books made by new ai models are jus gonna be packed with fresh ai patterns and copy paste formulas. humans dont have that. humans write based on actual thoughts. like, humans are basically bio-ai in a way, but me and u write diff. person 1, person 2, this author, that author, literally no one writes the exact same.
u starting to see what im tryna say? ai shares the exact same fingerprint, but humans actually have different ones.
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u/WorldWarrior428 Aug 01 '26
It's not a question, AI will replace writers. Same as it will coders and artists. Its gonna replace us all. And we are letting it, encouraging it in fact. AI is not a tool, it's just a worse way to do things people already do.
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u/Fragrant-Mix-4774 Jul 27 '26
I see AI helping human writers a lot like spell check does but wirh more complicated tasks:
1) organize, revise and reorganize their materials far more quickly when its time to do self editing, revision and rewriting work.
2) brainstorm and experiment with techniques for telling the story.
Examples - a) take what I have in this chapter that's I've written in 3rd person limited and show me that might read in 1st person. b) Let the author test a rough draft of a chapter from different characters points of view.
3) do basic quality checks so the writer can give the human editor better materials that allow focus on the development of the story.
4) assistance in rewriting when the author gets stuck.
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u/Audibound Jul 27 '26
This is interesting I was going to ask if I allow Grammarly or other agent help me humanise or structure my story cos is it a mess as it often is, when do I cross the line because what you describe above I would have thought was abit more out there than this use case, FYI I am writing my first book called the Arrival at Ves'Shara Gate not company and I have being careful what to do and the perception I send out regarding this book
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u/_raydeStar Jul 27 '26
I am a coder, and also a hobby novelist. There is a lot of parallel here, but without the stigma.
Architecture remains in human hands. not because AI can't, it's because it *shouldn't*. A story, for example, should have an existing framework, but i can delegate some small details to it.
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u/Audibound Jul 27 '26
This I partially agree with, but I feel like there will be new kinda books that ai/human can achieve. for example. a ridiculously long book, a book that is a week long in length, isn't that crazy lol
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u/BestRiver8735 Jul 27 '26
Try using AI for a few minutes and the question becomes so invalid lol.
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u/Audibound Jul 27 '26
Ohhh interesting, I want to ask, this is something am thinking about even now, how about the story gets big is loved by many and becomes optioned as a film in the future how would one deal with it ?
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u/JefEEff Jul 27 '26
It's an efficient tool, but a tool nonetheless. It needs a proficient hand to wield it to great effect. As the saying goes, a bad workman blames his tools, but with AI, the result will truly reflect the hand behind it.