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What if AI didn't make you a bad writer, but a better thinker?

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Re: What if AI didn't make you a bad writer, but a better thinker?

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Yep, yet another post on AI and the future of content creation. Looking at it from a different angle - what if AI could search your internal docs, and help you problem-solve? Aka help you exploit past knowledge to inform future decisions? The hope: GPT will democratize creation, not fill the internet with shitty articles.

Yep that’s the first great use case I’ve thought of - looking through all the documents in a group and answering a specific question. Also can imagine multi step pipelines driven by answers to previous questions.

Let me give a set of references and get a literature review.

Re: What if AI didn't make you a bad writer, but a better thinker?

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post #10

I can rewrite every book in existence but what is the point if everyone can do it?

I can breathe, but what is the point if everyone can do it?

The point is that what used to be a great achievement becomes a new baseline, and the great achievements become ever greater.

Re: What if AI didn't make you a bad writer, but a better thinker?

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The spate of AI "artwork" I have seen over the past few months has seemed to me to be good "prompts" for artists. Many of what I have seen has a germ of something interesting in it — but is often missing in other regards.

An obvious example that comes to mind are the recent "Jordowsky Tron" images [1]. Any art director could comb those images, consider changes here, there — and end up with something better than the AI.

I guess how derivative you think the final results are depends in part on how much "artist's prerogative" the art director employs, how derivative you think the AI prompts are to begin with, how derivative you see all art....

[1] https://www.facebook.com/groups/officialmidjourney/posts/454...

Re: What if AI didn't make you a bad writer, but a better thinker?

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post #6

I wonder if this article is written also with AI help? For instance ChatGPT usually ends the last paragraph with "Ultimately". As a side note I've also seen sites use SEO by writing possible search terms into the article itself.

unfortunately, my human brain wrote this, and it is not optimized for SEO :/

Re: What if AI didn't make you a bad writer, but a better thinker?

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I’ve been using AI to write with great success. Mostly business documents. My general process is this:

Think of the concept I want to write about as well as the supporting evidence for the topic. Ask ChatGPT to write me something in my target format using the topic and supporting evidence as input. What I get back is essentially a well-written skeleton that I can use to fill in additional details. Finally, I pass my revisions through ChatGPT to touch up any errors, rephrase wordy things, etc. I lightly edit the final draft and I usually have an excellent result.

Re: What if AI didn't make you a bad writer, but a better thinker?

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post #5

Good news is I will be able to ask GPT-like models to summarize me all these articles and I won't have to sift through them.

lmao fair.

It wasn't so much a critic of your article as thinking about coping mechanisms when the volume of articles being put out is significantly increased and nobody will be able or want to deal with all this noise. Fight GPT by GPT :)

Re: What if AI didn't make you a bad writer, but a better thinker?

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Yep, yet another post on AI and the future of content creation. Looking at it from a different angle - what if AI could search your internal docs, and help you problem-solve? Aka help you exploit past knowledge to inform future decisions? The hope: GPT will democratize creation, not fill the internet with shitty articles.

That is quite literally what the article talks about.
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