Artisan blog: When to use AI and when not?
Hanna Kahanpää, CEO
AI helps us to take care of many tasks and is the assistant we need to support our working and private life. There is no doubt about it. No matter whether to manage documents, create summaries, search for information, make language translations, create meeting notes of images or just get inspired – AI helps us. All these previous mentioned tasks belong to areas where also I use AI. With help of AI, I have been able to work more efficiently, and AI has changed my daily office routines.
But there are also situations where I think AI does not belong. One example of those tasks is writing blogs summarizing own, long polished thoughts about something important. Usually, the idea of a blog post is born out of office, for example while running. The blog is being worked with and gets more specific during each run. As the next step these thoughts are written down and digitalized. The text, including its writing style, has my own specific style. And this is how it should be; I wrote the text self. Used phrases and wordings and even grammar mistakes are the same I always have. A leopard cannot change its spots. People who know me, can recognize me as the writer.
I think it’s a pity, how the world has changed towards a situation where posts and articles created with the help of AI or by AI solely are filling the social media platforms. Have we come to a situation where the writers outsource their creative work to AI? Who’s thoughts are in the blog; writer’s or language model’s? Or perhaps thoughts of an international organization behind the language model? And where did the pride in writer’s own work vanish?
Very often such AI assisted / generated articles can be recognized from the writing style and content. One can easily spot OpenAI English as well as its Finnish counterpart. Often AI generated Finnish texts are poor Finnish language, practically just translated English text. And if AI is used to comment blog posts we have achieved a situation where AI discusses with itself. The text is fast-flowing and there is at least enough of it. There can be many opinions about the quality. Don’t feel like reading them.
As a counterforce to the previously described development, some artists have started to use a label ”Human made” to marks such pieces of art which have been created without AI. To show that there is still room for human thoughts and creativity in this world. And room for those long-planned blog texts.
I have written this text myself, without the help of anybody or anything. Therefore, I call this blog for ”Artisan blog” – these are solely my own thoughts, typed in digital format with my own hands.