The Pros and Cons of AI-Assisted Writing
Sometimes AI is scary, especially in the amount of information and content it can put out. And this is what I’ve realized as a writer: AI enables me to create content much faster than before.
Turbocharged Writing, Faster Than Ever
Essentially, it has turbocharged my content abilities. But the problem with AI writing is that it’s not perfect. I’ve created several AI bots. I have one bot that I’ve designed to write in my tone. I do this by loading my writing into ChatGPT. I also have an editing bot. Even when I run my voice-to-text program through it, the output still needs editing.
So here’s the problem: even when I use ChatGPT to create an article directly in my own voice using my AI bot, I still have to run that content through Microsoft Word to make it sound good. Maybe that’s my issue as an editor. Editors tend to be especially picky about both technology and text.
A Seasoned Writer and Editor
But I’m not happy with the content that ChatGPT generates. I think one of the problems is that ChatGPT was trained on a relatively primitive learning language model, so it still can’t write as sophisticatedly as a well-seasoned writer. You can often tell when you’re reading AI-generated writing because it tends to be overly wordy, which is why it has to be edited.
At this stage, I’ve found that I’m still a better editor than ChatGPT. That’s probably because I’ve been doing this for about 30 years. ChatGPT and AI are good at writing, but they’re not perfect yet.
