
My writing robot

Even now, when I’m lucky enough to be able to write exactly what I want to write with very few external constraints, writing often feels difficult for me in the same way it did when I was pumping out listicles — slow, sticky, clunky, painful, humiliating. I wonder if this, too, is part of the appeal of AI: it is so often humiliating to push up agai... See more

Will AI be used to produce amazing essays? (which could infantilize writers)
Or will AI be used to produce amazing writers (rewarding their effort)
In the end, it’s hopefully some kind of fusion. AI editors can help writers learn, upskill, improve, think, experiment, etc. Writers will still do the work & write manual prose. Yet, they might also b
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This is one of the many reasons why I find the current conversation about so-called generative AI so immensely frustrating: there’s all this hype about making everything easier and faster, about how we can eliminate all the work involved in the making of words and images. But no one arguing for this seems to have asked what’s left when the work is ... See more