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abrandis t1_j1zlch2 wrote

When you use ChatGPT you're not really writing your editing , there's a difference

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fordanjairbanks t1_j208h17 wrote

The end result for both is more content, though, and that’s what’s at the heart of OPs question.

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MaxwellzDaemon t1_j1zmaqr wrote

If you take away the requirement of being correct, yes, ChatGPT does make writing easier.

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Garmgarmgarmgarm t1_j1zoaur wrote

Being correct has never been a requirement of writing

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MaxwellzDaemon t1_j209cu6 wrote

And this is how the world ends, not with a bang but with a whimper.

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Garmgarmgarmgarm t1_j20dy1r wrote

ChatGPT could have probably wrote a better prequel trilogy than Lucas did, but it wont rival TS Eliot for a few more years.

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lofgren777 t1_j1zmtkc wrote

I think you're lumping disparate things in a way that is not helpful.

AI's problem when it comes to writing is that reading, unlike looking at art, takes time. You can generate ten images and glance at them and quickly narrow down which ones are useful and which ones are dreck. If you're using AI to generate anything even as long as paragraphs, that's a whole lot of reading, just to pick one that you are probably going to have to modify significantly anyway.

We're also much less forgiving when it comes to inaccuracy in writing than an in art. In art, you can count on pareidolia to do a lot of the effort of making sense of the image. Not so in writing, where you have to upload the information into people's heads for them to process and reconstruct, and if any details are off they will notice right away.

The way we perceive theft/plagiarism in art vs writing is also considerably different. Artists may feel like AI is producing cheap imitations of their style, but writing AI does not even seem to be up to that level of sophistication. Telling ChatGPT to write a story in the style of an author causes it to lift whole paragraphs from that author's work, as well as plot points and character beats. It's not yet sophisticated enough for me to feed it my own writing and say, "Show me this in the style of Hemingway, Dickens, and Camus."

Right now, I am most optimistic about AI as an editing software. I'm looking forward to never having to pay a proofreader again. It would also be quite helpful to be able to type a sentence into the AI and ask it to rewrite the sentence in its own words so that I could make sure I'm making sense. I think it's going to lower the barrier of communication for a lot of people with really good ideas who struggle to put them into words so that other people can appreciate them.

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Chance_Ad7305 t1_j1zza12 wrote

I think it’ll mean faster and better development. Just as you can correct neural nets on images you can do that with code and eventually you’ll have something that spits out better and better code faster that will require fewer corrections. After that it’s all about who can be most creative and innovative with their ideas. To the moon boys

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NotASuicidalRobot t1_j209sna wrote

I'm not sure how you calculate that ratio, is it time spent?

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