AI writing is rapidly evolving and has reached a point where it can mix the real with the fake. The development, however, has also triggered concerns that if AI writing continues to spread unchecked, it may create chaos serious enough to damage the world of human thought.
Li Qinyu (www.thepaper.cn): Publishing works in magazines is a form of recognition of the authors' creative ability. If someone relies on AI writing tools to grab fame and fortune, it is undoubtedly trampling on the dignity of literature and should be publicly exposed and criticized.
Although Youth Poetry magazine said it will use AI-powered detection software and manual reviewing to screen submissions, technical challenges remain in its efforts to keep itself free from AI writing.
More importantly, poets are able to modify or polish AI-written poems and turn them into "semi AI-poetry." How should these works be defined?
The same challenge is also faced in the writing of novels and research papers, with "authors" modifying texts generated by AI. Indeed, there are still various deficiencies in today's AI novels and research papers, but with continuous technological improvements, they will become increasingly in line with the requirements of their creators.
Human beings create poems because they are driven by the impulse to express their personal thoughts and emotions. When real feelings arise and they can't think of suitable vocabulary or sentences for the moment, they may consult powerful AI, but it is human beings that have the final say on how to write and what to write. If writers do not have the genuine desire to create from the start and thus rely on AI tools—and even do so in pursuit of ill-gotten profits—they are actually devaluing human creativity itself.
The true value of human writing is unique individual feelings based on the author's experiences, personality and style. AI is becoming more and more like humans, but humans should refrain from becoming more like AI.
Editorial (www.gmw.cn): Writing poetry tests the author's imagination, artistic creativity, depth of thought and their ability to express emotions in beautiful words. The finest poems are those that extract individuals' momentary emotions, whether it be love, loneliness, despair or ecstasy, and render them into universal experience that transcends time and space. However, current AI poems, even if it looks decent at first glance, are only a game of words that follow certain rules.
True artistic creation is not about synthesis, but about picking the best and about creating from scratch. With continuous advancement, AI poetry will crush most human poems, as AI is an integration of human wisdom.
AI can never outperform poets possessing true creativity. In other words, seemingly novel AI poems are in essence syntheses of existing human works. It can never understand why this or that poem is written. Therefore, while AI can defeat mediocre artists or poets, it cannot replace the really creative ones. BR
