https://digitalwriting.site/2024/09/07/the-struggle-to-adapt/ Experiments in Digital Content Fri, 13 Dec 2024 15:28:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://digitalwriting.site/2024/09/07/the-struggle-to-adapt/#comment-408 Fri, 13 Sep 2024 22:58:29 +0000 https://digitalwriting.site/?p=1245#comment-408 The issue I have with becoming “co-authors with machines” is that it implies that we both have put an equal amount of work into authorship. By having A.I. present a first draft, in reality, what happens is that we become editors of A.I. work, A.I. work that is unfairly taken from actual authors.
Looking at how A.I. could affect tech writers, it would take jobs. Instead of having, say, 3, they would only have 1 to parse through the information needed. Secondly, as you said, it disrespects the position of a tech writer. Tech writing is no easy feat.
The rhetoric that Cummings presents is useful for those who wish to work with A.I. as a tool, but his claim that soon we will all have to seems farfetched.

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