The Ethics of AI Article Writing: And It’s Moral Implications

The recent surge of AI in the last couple of years has come with some well deserved scrutiny as it has flooded on the tech scene for millions of new users.
If your anything like me then you’ve probably noticed people writing 3–4 articles a day recently and posting them on medium or other platforms. A lot of the time the tone of the writing won’t match up or will just seem void of all personal emotions.
Well that my friends is a clear sign that they are using AI to write for them. Which has now become somewhat of a recent controversy for writing, at least if you ask me but who am I to say.
You know I guess that’s what this whole conversation is really about. I just want to express my opinion on the use of AI in writing and hopefully receive your opinion in return.
Like I listed before some of the big issues for me with using things like AI in writing is the spotty quality of the work. The lack of a personal tone and just overall bland arguments and information really seems like a disservice to writers all around.
If I had to compare the quality to something human made. I would say it almost reminds me of the ads you see on social media for terribly written things like for example “5 weird facts you didn’t know about tuna”.
Except it’s even worse because at least some of the time you can have a decent human connection with the dialogue of the author who wrote those stupid things.
Beyond the reading aspect it really feels like they are cheating other writers who took massive amounts of time to research and write for their audience. Especially when you have 60,000 AI articles a day competing to take your viewers away.
I mean it’s extremely hard to build up an audience that wants to read your work. So for somebody who might not even know the smallest thing about writing to come and try and take it all away is unfair.
While I do see some uses for it in writing such as using it to help draft up things much faster. I overall see it as almost disrespectful to the craft of writing.
It’s hard to describe what my feeling about it is, but the closest I could come to is almost like they’re just cheating.
But make sure to share your own opinion in the comments, I want to know what other writers think about the subject and if you’ve used AI for writing before tell me how the process went for you.
