Insofar, I am not at all comfortable letting ChatGPT think for me when I am fully capable of thinking for myself. I’ve got nothing against those who are harvesting the crops of AI-enabled data to improve their writing. Good for them. Nothing wrong, ethically speaking, in using more effective words but at the same time, we have to be cognizant about the uniqueness of human expression.
At the end of the day, an essay composed by AI is an essay composed by AI.
AI is able to do this for you, within a fraction of seconds, because it has understood something that you have been missing out on. It reads and reads and reads. Without reading, there is no writing. It is fully capable of writing for you today because it has been trained to read billions and billions and billions of prose and poetry. Without reading, there is no writing.
So, yes, artificial intelligence can help you shine by making you appear like an accomplished writer—not necessarily, a quasi-original thinker—but the page-burning question of our era is, can it make you sound like an insightful reader? The answer is no. Or better still, not yet. It can write for you but it can’t read for you. You will have to do the reading yourself.
great essay.