The Optimized Marketer: Writing with AI: Future-proof Your Talent and Position Your Business for a World Transformed by AI (The Optimized Self)
by Joe Smith
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The Optimized Marketer: Writing with AI: Future-proof Your Talent and Position Your Business for a World Transformed by AI (The Optimized Self)
- 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. - 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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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
... See morefrom Creative Writing with an AI-Powered Writing Assistant: Perspectives from Professional Writers
sari 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
- AI augmentation is a future requirement, but remain mindful of what’s outsourced. Going forward, we need more demanding journeys than we do mindless shortcuts. Shortcuts rarely yield fun, stories or lessons. If it's easy, it likely isn’t worthwhile.
from The META Trending Trends: 2024 by Matt Klein
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- The model was helpful—but only to an extent. They found that while AI improved the output of less creative writers, it made little difference to the quality of the stories produced by writers who were already creative.
from AI can make you more creative—but it has limits by Rhiannon Williams
Mary Martin 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
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