When the writers in Hollywood went on strike in September of 2023, I, as a writer, took notice, and this rant was my cathartic result. I don’t believe that AI will ever replace us, but then again, how many people now a days can go a day without it. I’m not against progress and tools that help us make life easier. I’m against that very progress either making us lazy or making what we do superfluous.
It seems:
Humanity is taking an unnerving turn,
A lesson we might all too late learn.
That replacing what only the soul can create
With soulless machines, might need a debate.
We’re sourcing our talent out to AI
Not realizing the cost may soon be too high.
We’re already losing some jobs to machines.
AI makes the loss even more extreme.
We’re replacing our artist, musicians, and writers
With inanimate, soulless, synthetic expediters.
Why pay an advertiser, jinglist, or writer
When AI can make the payroll lighter?
Why pay for a book or a card with a poem
When they can be generated on a computer from home?
Why use our own minds to create our own thoughts
When AI can do it fast on the spot?
And not only that but this:
By providing a fast, easy tool that seems neat,
We’re giving our children the means to just cheat.
Their work ethic will soon become a bit of a laze.
Imaginations will dim, creativity will haze.
AI isn’t just a tool for analyzing,
It’s the ultimate form of plagiarizing!
Why do our own homework or write our own thesis
When AI can easily do these things for us.
We’re losing ourselves, our importance is dwindling.
Machines are taking over, our selves they are hindering.
It might not be much of a concern right now
But how much of this takeover will we allow.
Till one day we find out that it is too late.
Computers think for us and we’ve sealed our own fate.
This poem did not come from AI
I never want you to think my poems are a lie.
Not for the recognition, praise or glory,
But just so you know, I’ve told my own story.
It might not be perfect, it might take more time.
But I love the fact that these thoughts are all mine.
And one day it would be nice to get paid,
To keep earning a living from the things that we’ve made.
But if people continue to use AI for these things,
That might not happen no matter what our toil brings.
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