My writing robot

But the technology’s capacity for imitation will likely continue to improve: New Yorker staff writer Kyle Chayka observed that ChatGPT was not very effective at mimicking his own writing voice, but the AI startup, Writer, created a bot trained on his own writing to produce text in his voice that, while not perfect, was still “unnervingly effective.

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.

It was generally agreed that a co-writing AI, like a human co-writer, is most useful when it complements a writer’s own skillset. If a writer already knows how to develop eloquent prose, the AI’s ability to suggest interesting ideas is more crucial than the exact language it chooses. Conversely, if a writer already has a clear story arc in mind, an

AI is still in the robot voice phase. Even when you ask it to do impressions, it comes up with these weird, dramatic caricatures. Unfortunately I think this is temporarily and AI could become the ultimate imitation machine.

In terms of "AI making you more you," my hope has always been to have something like this. Basically, if I have a million words