After receiving literary criticism for sounding convoluted, contrived, or just plain annoying, New York novelist Sandra Vincent harbors hope that artificial intelligence will soon nail her authentic writer’s voice better than she can.
“It’s advancing at a very rapid pace, to the extent that it can convincingly mimic all kinds of writing styles,” said Vincent regarding the accelerating sophistication of artifical intelligence services like ChatGPT. “I have confidence that it will hit the mark on that profound but down-to-earth and accessible tone that has been eluding me thus far. Help me find myself, so to speak.”
Vincent noted that she is already encouraged by the fact that both ChatGPT and Claude have not only heard of her and her two published books but have honed in on her habit of using the phrase “so to speak.”
“They get me, so to speak,” she said.
Vincent reported that while some of her fellow writers are experiencing existential crises over the prospect of AI taking over the arts and rendering human creatives obsolete, she herself feels optimism for the possibility that machine-generated creativity will empower her to truly come into her own as an author.
“Creativity is about setting aside ago and self-gratification and letting the muse speak through you, so to speak,” she said. “Why shouldn’t that muse be machine-generated?”
And, given that much of the creative process happens subconsciously, Vincent anticipates that that singular moment wherein her literary voice fully hits ts stride will likely happen while she sleeps, after having inputted an appropriate prompt into her AI system of choice. “Honestly, I’m so looking forward to waking up one morning to that five-star Amazon review where some intelligent, thoughtful, verified-purchaser reader says, “You know what I love most about this author? She’s so real.”
Until that time, Vincent plans to do everything in her power to hone her craft and, most of all, her literary voice, including by signing up for the paid version of ChatGPT. “It’s an expense. But I’m willing to pay for true authenticity, which to me is priceless.”
