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The Wider Outlook…
I felt that it was necessary to add more than the standard statement regarding AI to this piece for several reasons but most importantly as my very background, which is often vitally important to the storylines of the work that I produce, is heavily connected with the IT and data industries. I write this therefore not only in my roles as a creator, but also as someone with specific industry knowledge.
In my role as a software developer and data specialist, I utilise AI based tools regularly. But then, that is the very important keyword – Tools. AI and what it can assist us with, is becoming more and more useful on a daily basis but we must always remember that AI is a tool, and only a tool. We can use AI for research. We can use AI for basic correspondence outlines. We can use them for exploratory and development work that will never actually reach a final reader or consumer – essentially, work that we can do ourselves, but which may take longer to achieve fruitful results that we are happy with.
The biggest problem right now, is that there are many people who are utilising AI not as a tool, not as a disruptor of industry, but as a bludgeon to destroy industries and reap as much financial gain as they can with as little work as they can undertake, and certainly no skill. This goes far, far further than the changes to industry that resulted in the creation of the Luddite movement. And yet, it takes a special kind of failure to use a tool as powerful as AI and still produce utter rubbish. Often, these people have never been involved with the industry that they are destroying at all, and see it just as a opportunistic means to line their own pockets.
This is true of larger companies, but it is also true of small organisations, and even individuals – on many eBook websites for example, authors can be found who somehow are able to write hundreds of books a month. Often, the authors themselves have no social presence or real-world identity and we know that they themselves are the fraudulent creation of organised money-making schemes.
Do I use AI? Yes, I do. I am an author, digital artist, VFX artist, software developer, data designer and educator. The simple fact is that there is no way I can reasonably avoid using AI. With AI’s integration in so many everyday tools today, most of us use it on a daily basis without even realising it. But the goal here, is being selective in what you use it for, and what you do with the results. I can also honestly say that it has never been used to create my story worlds, or the stories within them.
Much of my work is, or at least is initiated, in a non-specific media form. Liturgy for example, began as a very short script for an amateur film. It grew until it was ultimately a set of scripts for three series of six 90min television episodes. It is now a set of novels. During that time, my development work encapsulated look-book creation and design work on a scale that I could only have achieved using AI tools but even then, only the most selective results reached a final form, judged using a critical human eye that matched what I had already been designing and sketching.
What I can honestly and proudly say, is that none of the AI slop that is generated along the way will ever reach a paying public – I respect the reader too much for that to happen – and all illustrations included in my novels, or as cover artwork, have been created by a real human. Namely, me.
Any creation of an AI can only ever be an imitation built on algorithmically generated rules, and often built using illegally acquired creative works as a base. While we may ultimately get there, true inspiration as we see in the brain of a living creature is still centuries away, yet even now we know for a certainty that AI creations are already learning and self-training on previously created AI slop that has swamped the data environment. The AI gene pool is already poisoned.
Let’s keep creativity in the realm of the thinking human.
Ronald Cosgood, 2026