Everyone's been talking about the new program that just writes a paper for you. The fact is, writing is going the way of the abacus. Your process for writing will be the process of feeding the machine the right prompts.
As a writer, a lifelong non-plagiarist, content creator, etc., of course I'm a little threatened by this. Because it is easy to publish, and easy to create new things (just by feeding prompts), there will probably be an explosion of self-published ChatGPT stories, etc. Will there not? I could name my next book, "A real human wrote this."
Seriously, nobody knows yet the full range of implications of having a computer that can write out whatever you want, in whatever form, and even learns to do it better every time. It can write essays, papers, stories, whatever you ask. Should I master it? It sounds kind of interesting in a way.
Its weakness apparently is in doing research. Well, I'm glad I'll still be good for something.
I'll put here my range of thoughts on the matter, and my experimentation, if I get that far, and its results. If we are about to lose skills (namely writing skills), let it begin by having fun, having a machine do something for you. Just like we did with the calculators.
