I have forgotten how to write, even a text as irrelevant as a " Congratulations message ” or a “ Thankyou message ” is written using some sort of AI or chatbot. The first need of AI or any sort of tool was to fix mistakes, grammar or do hefty work easily but now people have become so used to it that typing things is now considered an effort, like I typed so much to explain stuff to you. To write anything our hands go to our mobile phones to type stuff out. Readers want to read something that has mistakes, punctuation errors, spelling blunders & such basic intricacies of literature. All this, just to feel that a human expressing something real, not an amalgamation of old unrelated articles present on the web or its subordinate, framed in a robotic manner. That is what people long for in this age of AI - Human Connection. I am from an ICSE school, the ICSE board was then considered the epitome of English in India. Shakespeare, English-writing, reading & what not. When I try ...
I have forgotten how to write, even a text as irrelevant as a "Congratulations message” or a “Thankyou message” is written using some sort of AI or chatbot. The first need of AI or any sort of tool was to fix mistakes, grammar or do hefty work easily but now people have become so used to it that typing things is now considered an effort, like I typed so much to explain stuff to you.
To write anything our hands go to our mobile phones to type stuff out. Readers want to read something that has mistakes, punctuation errors, spelling blunders & such basic intricacies of literature. All this, just to feel that a human expressing something real, not an amalgamation of old unrelated articles present on the web or its subordinate, framed in a robotic manner. That is what people long for in this age of AI - Human Connection.
I am from an ICSE school, the ICSE board was then considered the epitome of English in India. Shakespeare, English-writing, reading & what not. When I try remembering some of the classes we had on basic grammer, using a (comma), before and/but like "..., but"/"..., and" was a literal blunder. The (em-dashes) – didn't exist for us at all, if it did it was just after a semicolon to create a list just like this:-
I hope
you are
getting nostalgic.
Historically, only some writers left discrete special marks in their writeups to differentiate them from the masses but that element of differentiation is now ruthlessly misused by the masses. The Em dash (—) was used by some particular writers which included - Dickens, Dickinson, Melville, Woolf, Joyce etc. but now, it has become the hardcore proof of plagiarism or AI usage. So had the trend to start sentences with conjunctions and grammar tools accepting it, like man, go learn some grammar at least before grammerizing everything.
If Dickens had been in today's world, going to a publication to get his 'A Tale of Two Cities' published, it would be ruled out as "AI" just by a single look.
Commas (,) are now like free food & furniture, fit them anywhere & everywhere just because they are free. Commas have been disrespected, the slight pause which it generated was the difference between a poetry & a passage, a third-grade miserable article or a generational phenomenon. I don't think it'll ever gain its importance back now.
Writers, content creators, scriptwriters, copywriters are literally in the worst phase they ever had since writing was discovered as a profession. The companies want them to generate plagiarised content, use AI to create 2-3 articles per day. A single article, if researched well, formulated in a decent structure and created to impact the field it has been written for will easily take 2-3 days. The only repercussion of the generic use of chatbots for writing which has become evident is that the human mind is losing its sharpness. The reels and shorts have made our attention span limited to 8-10 seconds and this will harm humans in ways we can’t even imagine. Roald Dahl had warned us about this issue years ago, not specifically from AI but from television. In his poem Television while warning about the impact the TV might have on children he informed us -
“IT ROTS THE SENSE IN THE HEAD!
IT KILLS IMAGINATION DEAD!
IT CLOGS AND CLUTTERS UP THE MIND!
IT MAKES A CHILD SO DULL AND BLIND
HE CAN NO LONGER UNDERSTAND
A FANTASY, A FAIRYLAND!
HIS BRAIN BECOMES AS SOFT AS CHEESE!
HIS POWERS OF THINKING RUST AND FREEZE!
HE CANNOT THINK -- HE ONLY SEES!”
We better not talk about the huge packages of 2-3 thousand rupees monthly for full-time work that they are being offered. Just for the sake of remembering what writing actually meant then, I have tried not to use a single shred of AI in this article, no use at all - including any sort of codes, headlines, titles, images or anything. I know the images I have used are unrelated, un-SEO-optimised and just weird but I just want to see how and where does actual writing stand in today' s AI AGE.
In the end, maybe AI is 100x faster, efficient & better than human writers. Maybe, it can also form new creations using slightly engineered directions/prompts but at the end. It is not human. It doesn't understand the essence of life, it is just a script read out without emotion.
~ HARSH NATH JHA (Signing Off),
01:12
03-09-2026
If you want to read some more of my AI-free work you can try these:-
1) GRACE: The True Meaning of Gyaanarjan in Modern Education
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