A new icon popped up on my laptop uninvited recently. You’ve probably seen it on your laptop too. Co-pilot….
Did I ask for an AI assistant?
Do I have any need of an AI assistant who seems hell bent on helping me write a sentence?
NO!
This uninvited guest is a threat to human creativity, in my humble opinion.
As a self-published indie author, this uninvited guest is also a silent threat to my career as an author.
I publish via Amazon’s KDP platform who have a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to AI assistance so why would I want this “co-pilot” functionality anywhere near my creative work?
And can I remove it from my laptop? No, as far as I can tell. I have managed to turn it off but to be frank, I do not want it there even sleeping in the background. Suggestions on how to evict this uninvited guest gratefully received!
I’m not claiming to be the best author in the world but one thing I will guarantee for as long as I can string a sentence together, it will be my words, my sentence, my paragraph, my chapter and my manuscript and not something dreamt up or proposed by some uninvited AI bot!
Now, where’s my fountain pen and ink?
(image sourced via Google – credits to the owner)
Coral McCallum 