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32 notes on AI & writing - by Jasmine Sun - @jasmine

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I had the recent pleasure of recording a podcast with the lovely Ian Leslie on AI and writing. I’ll share it when it’s out (here it is!), and in the meantime, jotted down some quick reflections during my flight home from London: AI is better than most humans at producing prose. In a couple years, it will be better than most “professional writers” as well. Most text is not creative. Emails, policy papers, reported news. It does not desire to surprise or delight. It aims to convey ideas and information as clearly as possible. It is inevitable—given this reality and these incentives—that most people will soon use AI to write most things. Writing is a small, simple word for a very expansive task. There’s coming up with ideas, conducting interviews and research, presenting it all in an engaging way. (Most jobs that seem easy to automate are deceptively complex.) Current AI is not very inventive. I’ve never had it come up with an essay idea I thought was good. It’s not clear how much this qu

I had the recent pleasure of recording a podcast with the lovely Ian Leslie on AI and writing. I’ll share it when it’s out (here it is!), and in the meantime, jotted down some quick reflections during my flight home from London: AI is better than most humans at producing prose. In a couple years, it will be better than most “professional writers” as well. Most text is not creative. Emails, policy papers, reported news. It does not desire to surprise or delight. It aims to convey ideas and information as clearly as possible. It is inevitable—given this reality and these incentives—that…

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