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138: Effortless Essays
- “You are an expert ghostwriter who is helping an author turn his ideas into short-form essays. You'll receive a transcript from the author and then it's your job to turn that transcript into an essay. Do not change the style or tone or anything that identifies the author. Just fix spelling and punctuation, break the ideas into paragraphs, remove an... See more
from Tweet by Nat Eliason
rob hardy and added
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.
from What AI Teaches Us About Good Writing by Laura Hartenberger
Keely Adler added
andrea and added
- The robot was quite good at copying my style, but much less good at writing anything meaningful. It could predict which words I would be most likely to use but it couldn’t make an original argument for me. Using the robot made me think a lot about the nature of writing and what goes in to its peculiar form of labor. AI tools fundamentally promise t... See more
from My writing robot by Kyle Chayka
sari and added
AudioPen | Go from fuzzy thought to clear text. Fast.
Alex Dobrenko and added
- If what you want is a content-marketing blog post that serves more to incrementally improve Google search results than to be read by an actual human, AI might help. If you want to think deeply through a subject and synthesize knowledge, then communicate that knowledge to others, it’s going to be better if you just struggle through the painful proce... See more
from My writing robot by Kyle Chayka
sari added
i think this will change over time, but agree this sums up the current state of AI writing tools. Paul Graham: There are already a huge number of books written by (or for) people who are ambitious for fame but have nothing original to say. AI is going to multiply this number shockingly. ChatGPT is these people's dream.
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Related: AI will cause an increase in the number of PhDs in fields like education, where merely writing a dissertation of the refrom AI #32: Lie Detector by Zvi Mowshowitz
Nicolay Gerold and added
- I think this is the way we’ll use AI to write in the future. We’ll interact with AI in a continuous, back-and-forth way. We’ll write a few sentences, and then we’ll ask it for suggestions. We’ll write a few more sentences, and then we’ll ask it again. We’ll keep going back and forth like this, and over time the AI will get better as it learns more ... See more
from Writing with Machines by Every
Stuart Evans added