Hello World, welcome to Righter

Hi, I am Olumide.

Many might label me a 'nerd' for my passion for writing. Whether through short-form content on my WhatsApp status or in my private newsletter, I genuinely believe this is a practice everyone should adopt. Historically, writing and painting have been humanity's primary methods for documenting history and evolution. Indeed, we have consistently communicated and preserved our thoughts in written form. Regardless of grammatical perfection, everyone is a Shakespeare in their own right.

Writing has been a way to transfer knowledge, ideas and wisdom through generations. A great way to inform the next generations of what the current and past encountered and how they solve them. However, writing is not enough. Old manuscripts don't just should repetitive writing, regurgitating the same thing over and over, except of course when two people try to share their personal account of a common event. This, however, is understandable. Why? Because, having multiple manuscripts show the authenticity of such event. The irk would be when the supposedly different account seems word for word and zero to no difference, this is called plagmarism in modern literature.

The rise of GenAI and plagiarism

The rise of Generative AI (GenAI) has also given rise to plagiarism. These Large Language Models (LLMs) derive their information from their training data. This inherently reduces the creativity essential for writing. Writing, by its very nature, is a profoundly creative process. It is the means by which we share our thoughts and ideas, shape the next generation of knowledge, and provide the foundational data for future innovation and solutions to global problems. Outsourcing this vital human endeavor to LLMs is inflicting far more damage than we will soon realize.

There's a claim that certain words are exclusively used by LLMs. However, as a Nigerian, I find this claim highly untrue. Words such as delve, parabulate, flabbergasted are commonly used here. I once considered these words vernacular, given their absence from the Hollywood movies I watched. As second-language English speakers, most of us acquire the language by reading dictionaries and extensive novels.

"AI is enabling anyone to create well-written documents... but it threatens the future intellectual acumen of students if used to replace the thinking process entirely." — Brookings Institution (2025)

Social media and the need to protect humanity's creative writing

The rise of social media and blogging platforms has greatly increased the number of writings the world have seen. Wikipedia, Blogspot, Medium, and even LinkedIn have made it easy for us to document their thoughts and contribute to the world's knowledge database, but LLMs generating contents proves a great danger to this success. We can't have information recycled without something new, and here is where Righter comes.

Righter is built out of the need to preserve the world's knowledge database, to push mundane tasks to LLMs, and to leave reasoning and creativity to the only species that has shown, time and time again, that it is the apex of knowledge. We are doing this out of love for the act of writing and pushing you, our users, to write and be creative. LLMs can't and shouldn't think for you; you alone can do that.

My team and I are excited about the future of writing, because Righter is here to defend originality.