Clickbait Rewriting on Artifact: Behind the Scenes

Imagine you are reading a story on a web page or app, like the old fashioned kind of story written by a human. How might one augment the experience with AI functionality:

• Summarize / rewrite / translate this article;


• Compare this content to things recently written on the topic;


• Fact check the author’s arguments and show supporting sources;


• Deconstruct

Writers who use AI as a drafting tool might be seen as intentionality remixers, drawing copy from ChatGPT as raw material and weaving purpose into the syntax and language. But so far, the chatbot on its own, or even with the support of savvy prompt engineering, does not excel at this particular task.

Such a thing is compelling not because it offers  answers  in the form of text, but because it makes it possible to play text—all the text, almost—like an instrument.

That outcome could be revelatory! But a huge obstacle stands in the way of achieving it: people, who don’t know what the hell to make of LLMs, ChatGPT, and all the other gene