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What AI Teaches Us About Good Writing - NOEMA

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While AI can speed up the writing process, it doesn’t optimize quality — and it endangers our sense of connection to ourselves and others. Laura Hartenberger is a writer and lecturer for the University of California, Los Angeles Writing Programs. As soon as I sit down to write, I feel compelled to scrub my bathtub and reorganize my filing cabinet — the most tedious chores suddenly become more appealing than the task at hand. Writing can feel so daunting that we’ve invented the term writer’s block to describe the unique sensation of its challenge, and we debate whether the ability to write well is learned or simply innate. The work requires long stretches of intense focus and undivided attention, and doing it well usually involves a prolonged process of revision. For many of us, writing feels like one of the most burdensome activities we can do. Generative AI tools like ChatGPT offer the seductive possibility that we can optimize this laborious process. But while it can clearly optimize

What AI Teaches Us About Good Writing While AI can speed up the writing process, it doesn’t optimize quality — and it endangers our sense of connection to ourselves and others. Anthony Gerace for Noema Magazine Credits Laura Hartenberger is a writer and lecturer for the University of California, Los Angeles Writing Programs. As soon as I sit down to write, I feel compelled to scrub my bathtub and reorganize my filing cabinet — the most tedious chores suddenly become more appealing than the task at hand. Writing can feel so daunting that we’ve invented the term writer’s block to describe the un

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