added by Jonathan Simcoe and · updated 7mo ago
My Post-Ai Writing
- 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
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- Writing isn’t just how I communicate ideas or discoveries; it’s how I come up with them in the first place.
from My writing robot by Kyle Chayka
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- 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.