Everyone wants you to use A.I. to make X easier. But what if X is supposed to be hard?
<p>Writing’s not exactly easy for me. Words don’t flow from my brain to fingertips so much as they get squeezed and wrung out. But it’s through squeezing and wringing that I find value in writing. By forcing myself to think clearly and cogently about something, I’m left with (hopefully) better organized and more informed views on something I care about, in addition to the feelings of cathartic joy that can only come from self-expression.</p>
<p>If all that matters is text as output, there’s no doubt that an A.I. could produce more of it, faster, than I ever could. But the text isn’t entirely the point.</p>
<p>A.I. helps us get to outputs and outcomes faster. But what do we lose from the process along the way?</p>
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<p>Ted Chiang has famously described ChatGPT as a “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-is-a-blurry-jpeg-of-the-web" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">blurry JPEG of the internet</a>.” In that same article, he makes a compelling case for writers doing hard things themselves, without A.I.:</p>
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<p>If you’re a writer, you will write a lot of unoriginal work before you write something original. And the time and effort expended on that unoriginal work isn’t wasted; on the contrary, I would suggest that it is precisely what enables you to eventually create something original. The hours spent choosing the right word and rearranging sentences to better follow one another are what teach you how meaning is conveyed by prose.</p>
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