Hi, I am Avni. I am a twenty year old writer. For as long as I remember I have been writing, be it fiction on Wattpad, non fiction on this website or poetry in communities, I have put word on paper and felt it to be the most honest act one can commit to come closer to themselves. I believed my ability to pen down the chaos in my mind to a perfect metaphor reader can feel to, relate to, was my ultimate gift.
Then AI happened, it learnt patterns, metaphors, linguistics from writers, much alike us, who put their years of writing on open access platforms to reach wide and share years of their training and knowledge to democratise knowledge. Now, I am told to put my final draft on ChatGPT to make it “smoother”, “better”, “concise.” Well, fuck better. Humans aren’t an algorithm to be optimised. Write messy. Write true. I want to read your rambling on the terrible sandwich you bought for Rs. 600, use language as vile, as unpolished as possible. That will have more soul than anything AI can conjure up from its most polished prompt.
Hence, I am starting a 30 days series where i write everyday here without any AI assistance, a little contribution to keep the soul intact of a world which is fed with gallons of AI slop each day. I would love to see more of you join in: write about the most seemingly ordinary thing or the revelation you believe will change the world, your words deserve a reader and readers deserve soul back in their writings. So, join me, reclaim your words.
See you tomorrow.
P.S.: Attaching a piece from one of the most celebrated works of the author whose novels taught me to appreciate the stream-of-consciousness style of writing: Agua Viva by Clarice Lispector. For the next 30 days, I will be writing in this format – notably human.
AVNI JAIN 