Great article! So much of this resonates with me from the uncomfortable feeling at seeing other people’s work that is clearly completely written by AI to the recognition of the tremendous usefulness of AI. The way you position AI to take care of the stuff someone else would have anyways (a friend, editors, etc) is 100% the way to go. Us writers want to write, letting someone else do the NON writing part for/with us is a gift. I actually copy and pasted your prompts to save for later particularly the high-level editor suggestion, excited to see how that goes for me! Thanks for writing and sharing this piece.
I am so happy that this resonated with you and helped you think through this sci-fi situation we find ourselves in! I just want writers to (1) be writers and (2) get great help. When you try this stuff out you'll have to let me know if it's as powerful for you as it has been for me, and whether you think it threatens your writing's humanity at all. I simply must know
Ok, this is the argument that finally convinced me to download ChatGPT after being such a holdout. I miss being edited and collaborating with other writers!
After a few minutes of playing around, I picked up on an eerily familiar voice — this certain forced earnestness and performative rhythm. I suddenly realized that so much of the content in my feed has obviously been written (or at least heavily influenced) by AI.
I started spiraling and venting to my tech-forward husband. And he was like, "Oh, you innocent little dove..."
Anyway, I'm freaked out but am still super interested in trying out your process and prompts. God bless you for being so transparent!
Rachel, I about 30 seconds removed from reading a very popular article that didn't have any explicit tells but which I nonetheless suspect was written by AI. I'm seeing ghosts everywhere (but I think they're real). If the only thing that comes of you using chatgpt is more AI literacy and awareness of when you're reading it, that itself may be worth the price of admission.
But yes, I think if you do some experimentation you're going to find it really rewarding to have feedback on tap like this. I absolutely love it. Definitely takes a bit of practice to get the right mixture of encouragement and critique though. Report back on how it goes for you!
Great article! So much of this resonates with me from the uncomfortable feeling at seeing other people’s work that is clearly completely written by AI to the recognition of the tremendous usefulness of AI. The way you position AI to take care of the stuff someone else would have anyways (a friend, editors, etc) is 100% the way to go. Us writers want to write, letting someone else do the NON writing part for/with us is a gift. I actually copy and pasted your prompts to save for later particularly the high-level editor suggestion, excited to see how that goes for me! Thanks for writing and sharing this piece.
I am so happy that this resonated with you and helped you think through this sci-fi situation we find ourselves in! I just want writers to (1) be writers and (2) get great help. When you try this stuff out you'll have to let me know if it's as powerful for you as it has been for me, and whether you think it threatens your writing's humanity at all. I simply must know
Ok, this is the argument that finally convinced me to download ChatGPT after being such a holdout. I miss being edited and collaborating with other writers!
After a few minutes of playing around, I picked up on an eerily familiar voice — this certain forced earnestness and performative rhythm. I suddenly realized that so much of the content in my feed has obviously been written (or at least heavily influenced) by AI.
I started spiraling and venting to my tech-forward husband. And he was like, "Oh, you innocent little dove..."
Anyway, I'm freaked out but am still super interested in trying out your process and prompts. God bless you for being so transparent!
Rachel, I about 30 seconds removed from reading a very popular article that didn't have any explicit tells but which I nonetheless suspect was written by AI. I'm seeing ghosts everywhere (but I think they're real). If the only thing that comes of you using chatgpt is more AI literacy and awareness of when you're reading it, that itself may be worth the price of admission.
But yes, I think if you do some experimentation you're going to find it really rewarding to have feedback on tap like this. I absolutely love it. Definitely takes a bit of practice to get the right mixture of encouragement and critique though. Report back on how it goes for you!