Here’s my stance on why I thoroughly convict that writing in your own voice, style, manner, and range beats relying on AI programs like ChatGPT or DeepSeek to do it for you by a huge, magnificent, long shot. I have always admired stories, plays, poems, and discourses written by great minds such as Charles Perrault, Jakob and Wilhelm Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, William Shakespeare, Tony Kushner, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mary Woolstonecraft Shelley, Toni Morrison, Virginia Woolf, Maya Angelou, P.L. Travers, and bell hooks from infancy to childhood to adolescence to adulthood. I have some favorite works from these authors, including Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers, Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf, Angels in America by Tony Kushner, and We Real Cool: Black Men and Masculinity by bell hooks. While I am at it, I am far more partial to reading and listening to the timeless nursery rhymes from Mother Goose rather than the soullessly obnoxious drivel depleting young children’s attention spans on social media. We, as a society, desperately need to stimulate creativity and imagination legitimately through reading, writing, and learning from all the old masters and mistresses of literature. Our favorite television shows and movies would not be memorable without the craft of various screenwriters, producers, and show creators. Paddy Chayefsky’s biting use of satire and clever dialogue has bolstered Network’s memorability as a harsh yet insightful look into how the media can distort the audience’s perception of the world around them. Benny Medina’s first-hand experience growing up in Los Angeles with his younger siblings, hopping from foster home to foster home before settling with his white relatives, formed the basis of the 1990s sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and made it even more memorable. While Sheryl Leach was the main creator of Barney the Dinosaur for her young son as a means to spread pro-social messages of unconditional love and kindness, Kathy Parker, Dennis DeShazer, and Stephen White were among the many writers involved to ensure that Barney’s prime from Barney and the Backyard Gang to Barney and Friends were memorable for a chiefly pre-school to early grade school audience. Hayao Miyazaki has always implemented various influences from his native Japan to various parts of the world to give his characters and settings depth, majesty, and distinction. Akira Toriyama breathed new life into The Journey to the West epic and transformed it into the fun and engaging Dragon Ball franchise. Yoshihiro Togashi made YuYu Hakusho into the amazing and story-driven shonen anime that it was, with the characters using their intellect and physical prowess to overcome every obstacle. All of them have produced interesting works, thanks to their distinctiveness and appeal to various demographics. Creative minds beget great works steeped in distinction and individuality and resonate much more strongly than what any AI program can produce.