Yeah, no shit, especially for people who can’t write
LadyBrighid on
No. It’s the opposite. If you don’t challenge your brain—if you outsource thinking—your brain gets weaker. It doesn’t form new neural pathways. If you don’t challenge yourself to put together sentences, and you even outsource the simplest things, like emails, your ability to express yourself will be severely hampered. It will deteriorate so quickly.
It will cause permanent writer’s block, but that’s the least of our worries here. We’re going to have an epidemic of early onset dementia if people keep relying on ChatGPT.
But hey, guess who would love it if most people had trouble with critical thinking and speaking up for themselves? Billionaires and authoritarians.
MINKIN2 on
Guardian writer letting their secrets out.
confringos on
Considering that some of the greatest writers in history like Charles Dickens, who endured poverty and child labor, and Fyodor Dostoevsky who wrote under debt and personal suffering, produced timeless work without any shortcuts, is indeed sobering. Writer’s block did not stop them; their struggle was the fuel for their creativity.
Today, many seem to rely on technology to get started and treat writer’s block as an excuse to outsource creativity. People are skipping the hard work of thinking and figuring out their own words, and that’s a real loss for creativity.
Will we ever see the likes of Dickens or Dostoevsky again?
MitchellSFold on
Only shit and/or lazy writers, though.
They need to specify this otherwise people will get confused and might think AI is of actual benefit to genuine writers, which of course it fucking isn’t.
CMRC23 on
Back when ai chatbots were getting popular and i didn’t know better, I was using them daily for hours to “talk” to my characters. But then I noticed a couple of things; they had poor memory of the conversation, they weren’t really like the characters (mostly just the same with different set dressing), and most of all, they sapped all my creative energy. I went from writing semi-regularly to not writing at all. Since quitting them, I’ve found I get much more enjoyment creating on my own.
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Yeah, no shit, especially for people who can’t write
No. It’s the opposite. If you don’t challenge your brain—if you outsource thinking—your brain gets weaker. It doesn’t form new neural pathways. If you don’t challenge yourself to put together sentences, and you even outsource the simplest things, like emails, your ability to express yourself will be severely hampered. It will deteriorate so quickly.
It will cause permanent writer’s block, but that’s the least of our worries here. We’re going to have an epidemic of early onset dementia if people keep relying on ChatGPT.
But hey, guess who would love it if most people had trouble with critical thinking and speaking up for themselves? Billionaires and authoritarians.
Guardian writer letting their secrets out.
Considering that some of the greatest writers in history like Charles Dickens, who endured poverty and child labor, and Fyodor Dostoevsky who wrote under debt and personal suffering, produced timeless work without any shortcuts, is indeed sobering. Writer’s block did not stop them; their struggle was the fuel for their creativity.
Today, many seem to rely on technology to get started and treat writer’s block as an excuse to outsource creativity. People are skipping the hard work of thinking and figuring out their own words, and that’s a real loss for creativity.
Will we ever see the likes of Dickens or Dostoevsky again?
Only shit and/or lazy writers, though.
They need to specify this otherwise people will get confused and might think AI is of actual benefit to genuine writers, which of course it fucking isn’t.
Back when ai chatbots were getting popular and i didn’t know better, I was using them daily for hours to “talk” to my characters. But then I noticed a couple of things; they had poor memory of the conversation, they weren’t really like the characters (mostly just the same with different set dressing), and most of all, they sapped all my creative energy. I went from writing semi-regularly to not writing at all. Since quitting them, I’ve found I get much more enjoyment creating on my own.