The use of ChatGPT and AI as writing tools has become increasingly popular over the course of the last few months, but where do we draw the line?
People have silently but collectively agreed that there are several different scenarios that make it okay to use ChatGPT as a writing tool to help polish or enhance our work. A few examples include writing up a social media caption, responding to an email or revising your resume. While these are all great uses for the platform, where do we decide that it might be teetering the line of morality?
Would it be wrong to write a breakup text with ChatGPT? What about your wedding vows? What about a blog post like this one?
If the individual is giving ChatGPT all the information but asking the chatbot to revise it, does that still count as their own ideas? Some could argue that it is the same thing as writing a text then asking your friend to read it first. Not everyone can grab a pen and paper and string their thoughts together into beautiful words.
You can tell AI exactly how you feel about your partner and have them incorporate those points into a beautifully written, heartwarming vow that can evoke emotion within the audience, while also sounding genuine and from the heart. They can give you a draft and you can say “Revise this,” “Don’t include that,” “Add something about this” and it will make the necessary changes until you’re pleased with the result. Just because you used artificial intelligence to help you, does that mean that the words aren’t true?
I see this becoming a dilemma in the coming years as the use of ChatGPT and similar artificial intelligence platforms grow. The younger generations who are growing up with AI may end up struggling to write essays, emails or text messages on their own without running it through ChatGPT first. We could even see things like emails, texts, blogs, social media captions and any other written content seen as invalid because there is a chance it was written by AI.
The question is, how and where do we establish a limit on what AI can and cannot be used for? My best suggestion is that we will have to unanimously agree on where to draw the line. As a society we will collectively, through trial and error, decide what is moral and what is not. We are trekking in a new digital territory which means it is time for change, but it is up to us if we want to embrace that change.
This blog is courtesy of MMC Social Media Coordinator Peyton Martin.