The Pen and the Pixel: Your Guide to Ethical and Efficient Writing with AI

By Elise Abram

Unlock the secrets of using AI ethically and effectively to supercharge your writing.

 

Feeling overwhelmed by the blank page? AI writing assistants could be your secret weapon! This book dives deep into the world of AI writing assistants, showing you how to harness their power while keeping your human touch.

 

Get ready to:

• Create on Demand: Overcome writer's block and generate fresh ideas with the help of AI.
• Boost Productivity: Streamline your writing process and write faster without sacrificing quality.
• Elevate Your Craft: Sharpen your grammar, sentence structure, and overall writing style with AI's guidance.
• Maintain Artistic Control: Learn how to personalize AI-generated content to ensure it reflects your unique voice and vision.
• Write with Integrity: Understand ethical AI use to avoid plagiarism and ensure your work is always authentically your own.

Whether you're a seasoned writer or just starting your writing journey, AI is poised to become one of your most valuable tools. Embrace the power of collaboration and let AI spark your creativity, streamline your workflow, and elevate your writing to new heights. With this book as your guide, you can harness the potential of AI writing assistants and confidently navigate the exciting future of human-machine collaboration.

 

Don't just write; write smarter. Get ready to start your AI writing journey today!

• Language: English
• Publisher: EMSA Publishing
• Release date: May 14, 2024
• ISBN: 9781988843827

Elise Abram

Elise is a retired high school teacher of English and Computer Studies, former archaeologist, and current author, editor, freelance writer, avid reader of literary and science fiction, and student of the human condition. She has been writing for as long as she can remember. Over the years, writing has become as essential to her as eating, sleeping, or breathing.  Elise is best known as an urban fantasy and young adult novelist, but her writing interests are diverse. She has published everything from science fiction, horror and the paranormal, and contemporary fiction and police procedurals for all ages. She has also published five children’s picture books.

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Contents

Your guide to ethical and efficient writing with AI

AI and its Impact on Writing: Friend or Foe?

Demystifying AI: An Introduction to Writing Assistants

Addressing Bias and Ethical Dilemmas

The Plagiarism Minefield

Empowering Non-Fiction  With AI Assistance

Editing and Polishing with Precision:  AI as Your Proofreader

Partnering with AI on Your Fiction Journey

Unleashing Creativity with AI: The Elements of Fiction

Conclusion: Beyond Hype and Fear

CASE STUDY 1: Can AI Generate a Bibliography in Your Desired Citation Style?

CASE STUDY 2: Can AI Provide An Outline for a Work of Fiction?

Part 2: Can AI Capture the Emotional Core of Fiction?

CASE STUDY 3: How Did AI Help Me  Write This Book?

CASE STUDY 4: Streamlining the Epigraph Selection Process

The Pen and the Pixel: Your Guide to Ethical and Efficient Writing with AI

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Published by EMSA Publishing 2024

Thornhill, Ontario, Canada

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Cover design: Elise Abram

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Your guide to ethical and efficient writing with AI

ELISE ABRAM

AI and its Impact on Writing: Friend or Foe?

Artificial intelligence is not a substitute for human intelligence; it is a tool to amplify human creativity and ingenuity.

– Fei-Fei Li (qtd. in Galt)

Imagine a world where writer’s block becomes a relic of the past, where creative inspiration flows freely, and where research happens in a blink. This is the world promised by Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the realm of writing. But is AI a friendly assistant or a potential usurper of the writer’s throne? This chapter delves into the fascinating world of AI and its impact on writing, both fiction and non-fiction.

Pretty good introductory paragraph, right?

Would you believe it was written by the Google Gemini AI software?

This book aims to examine the use of AI in writing as a tool for authors, writers, and students. It emphasizes the importance of human intervention when it comes to text generated by AI. Throughout this book, AI software—such as ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Grammarly generative AI—is used to create text samples, and the results are critiqued to underscore the fact that AI is a tool that will enhance human creativity, not replace it (Future). This book also gives insight into how generative AI works to create text.

The ultimate goal of this book is to showcase how AI can be used ethically, responsibly, efficiently, and thoughtfully as a digital writing assistant or co-writer.

It’s time to don your critical thinking caps as we demystify the new, powerful, and sometimes frightening world of generative AI software.

Demystifying AI: An Introduction to Writing Assistants

In the literal sense, the programmed computer understands what the car or the adding machine understand: namely, exactly nothing.

—John Searle, American philosopher (qtd. In Toews)

Artificial Intelligence (AI) refers to machines that can think and act like humans, with the primary goal of thinking and acting rationally. It does this through machine learning with computer programs that make predictions based on their data. Generative AI is used to create (or generate) new materials—like writing, art, and music—with the goal of simulating these works. AI typically interacts with people by using natural language processing, enabling humans and computers to communicate using plain English phrases, terms, and questions.

Generative AI works by using raw data to generate statistically probable outputs when prompted…to create a new work that’s similar, but not identical, to the original data(What is). This means generative AI scans any and all documents it is given, digests them, and composes new documents containing information found in the originals. It essentially spins the information it finds to produce a brand-new document.

Large language model (LLM) AIs work by using an "algorithm…that tr[ies] to predict the next word in a