Remember the phrase, “creative writing”?\u00a0 Did it annoy you?\u00a0 It did me.\u00a0 Now that we’re getting more familiar with ai, I think I know why.\u00a0 And I’m even more annoyed.<\/p>\n
It goes beyond writing, of course: people are “creative” when they’re acting themselves out, making, shaping. Whether they’re making a map, a business plan, or a painting, shaping materials, sound waves, or landscapes, it’s creative<\/em> if the movement they make to do it — yes, there’s always a movement, even for a whisper — \u00a0has not<\/em> been formulated in advance, not made in someone else’s interests. But to stay with writing for now, only writers themselves actually know whether what they’ve done is creative or not.<\/p>\n So those words, “creative writing,” (aren’t they a bit archaic now?) licensed a kind of smug agreement that “we” could<\/em> tell the difference.\u00a0 We built a boundary into the language between “useful,” “trustworthy” writing and the rest — maybe “inventive” or “speculative”. Now, however, any actual writing we do will be creative, because all the “trustworthy, “useful” stuff will be automated. And to add insult to injury, if we publish it, ai will presume to judge it’s creativity — which is coming to mean its humanity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Remember the phrase, “creative writing”?\u00a0 Did it annoy you?\u00a0 It did me.\u00a0 Now that we’re getting more familiar with ai, I think I know why.\u00a0 And I’m even more annoyed. It goes beyond writing,...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"Creative Writing is all there is","bgseo_description":"Once \"creative writing\" meant what wasn't useful, common, predictable language, probably suitable for commercial purposes. With ai, it it's all that's left. ","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[580,176,259,247],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai","category-creativity","category-language","category-writing"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3119"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3130,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3119\/revisions\/3130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyannroth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}