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Unit 2 Reflection

AI and Impact on Literature Reflection 


    For this project, I decided to focus on AI and its impact on literature for current and future writers. At first I wanted to look at the connection between AI and coding since that more accurately applies to my major, but I felt for a writing class, it would be perfect to focus on the impacts AI has on writing!

It was relatively easy to choose my audience for this project because my motivating questions behind my research was toward the perspective of writers. I implemented logos to create logical arguments so my audience can understand the meaning behind my research. 

In this project, I definitely challenged myself by reading about a topic I do not know well. I initially wanted it to be somewhat related to the field I know well; statistics. Although that was my initial plan, I wanted to expand my horizons and research something I am unfamiliar with which is literature and AI. 

While doing my research, I found many articles about this topic. I thought this was because of how prevalent AI has become. With more people using AI generators, the smarter it continues to get. AI has personally scared me because I get worried about how powerful it will continue to get. This seems to be a popular feeling as there was a lot of articles about how AI can affect the jobs of writers and future writers. The quality of the articles varies as they do with different topics as well. I did notice there was a lot of articles from .edu and .gov sites and was not limited to an absurd amount of .com websites and articles. Throughout my research, my beliefs about this topic has not swayed from how I initially felt. At first I felt as if AI is taking away the creativity from writers. Although some articles I looked at said to view AI as a tool, it still seems as if AI has the ability to take over jobs. The articles could have improved by including data about jobs that may have been overtaken by AI. Although I don't see this happening until the near future since AI is still quite new and has not made too much of a difference in the work field. Once it starts to impact more jobs, these authors can come back and compare research analysis to their previous article that they had written. 

As for engaging my audience, I believe I did a good job engaging. Whenever I were to ask someone within my close circle about their opinion on AI and writing, they all had the same reaction, "oooh that's important". This is a very relevant topic that seems to engage the audience because of how important it is now. For my intended audience, I did not receive a response back regarding my pitch. Although when I asked and showed my project to my cousin, a writer in Mexico, he found it interesting. He said that AI definitely has affected the jobs of many in his field because for simple articles, AI is much quicker than a human. AI can generate a short article in a fraction of the time that a human could. The only catch is that AI does not have a human point of view which can easily be differentiated. This cannot be replicated. AI can not have the empathy or wisdom that a human obtains which is critical for writing. My cousin noted that the author's tone is critical for a good passage. This way, the words on the paper can connect the author and the audience. 

Since my major includes a lot of research and analysis, I definitely could include some of the techniques I used for this class in my other classes. For example, many of my classes use R software. For a project, with a given dataset, I could use statistical analysis to compare to other statistical findings about the same topic from someone else. This was a vague example, but I could definitely find reliable sources and do my own research based on others' findings. Also beyond college, I plan to do something with sports data analysis. Research techniques are definitely going to be needed for this job since it will be my job to do research on a certain subject, let's say the opposing team and do statistical analyses about their tendencies. This is definitely a dream of mine. I would need to display my findings in a way to engage my audience which would be the team I work for. This way they would look forward to my scouting reports and find my work useful. 

Comments

  1. Dave Ciciarelli26 March 2025 at 19:26

    AI is great and I use it all the time. But it kindof scares me.

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