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GPT Block: Writing Has Gone From Art to Automation
ChatGPT has me much less enthusiastic about writing and publishing.
In the nearly two years since consumer-facing AI chatbot apps have been made available, as a writer, I have found my own interest in writing has been diminishing.
I find it harder to send newsletters, write my next book, and post on social media, because I have two choices:
- Continue writing by hand (which I love to do) and take more time about it than others do, or
- Use AI to spend more time editing bland copy, and less time actually writing.
I love to write because I love composition.
The untangling of my thoughts through the clickity-clack of the keys on my keyboard — this is a therapeutic meditation for me, and it often results in essays and articles that others find insightful.
I don’t like editing. It’s a necessary chore to convert my untangled thoughts into a consumable piece of reading. I don’t mind it, in small amounts, but with ChatGPT, all I do is edit.
Tuning a GPT to speak in my voice is easy enough. Getting it to give me a list of good…
