This article was not written by AI. There can be little denial that humanity have entered a new era, the age of Artificial Intelligence. This has long been the dream of humanity, the next stage where we lay down our tools and minds and give up some of our autonomy to servicing robots. Humanity’s information overabundance has now reached true automation. As every industry and sector pours their resources into AI integration, it has been the release of AI chatbots that has taken society by storm. Messenger bots like ChatGPT, Microsoft CoPilot and Gemini now offer instant answers to all our questions, from problem solving to researching and analysis. One topic that has not been discussed enough, however, has been the surge of AI chatbots as ‘writing companions’. AI writing has flooded every computer screen and submitted essay. Words are no longer being merely spell-checked but wholly amended for ‘better’ structure and grammar. With these ‘perfect’ AI written work, we ought to ask: will the cause for human writing remain strong and distinguishable in the exponential growth of Artificial Intelligence? One may argue this was everything we wanted – writing done in seconds to leave the human mind restful for all other things. Ultimately, this article will examine the dimensions to our increasing trust of AI writing. I will highlight the many uses AI seeks to serve as an undeniable, powerful tool to automation and learning. I then seek to raise caution to the overreliance of AI towards writing. Even in our most imperfect forms, writing reflects a human attitude, a response to our environment and a never-ending source of originality from our indecipherable realities.
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