Writing With AI

It’s both shockingly bad and shockingly good at explaining difficult matters. ChatGPT can explain Kant, the Relativity Theory and it can translate Cuneiform documents at a frightening speed. Mind you: You can not trust it. It has no conscience in any way. It does not understand what it does, and it does not know what is good or bad.

Writing in dialogue with an artificial companion was unexpected, inspiring and exciting. Using AI in dialog over a writing task was a truly new experience. Using AI as a dialogue partner during preparation, when stuck, and in editing proved surprisingly useful.

AI can and will ruin your voice and credibility if you lazily let it write in your place. As writers we can not allow AI to replace our own thinking. We should use it to simulate the thinking of a missing dialogue partner. To write better, we need to think more, not less.

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