ChatGPT - The End of Writers?

We're authoring our own destruction

Chat GPT and other AI tools have been lighting up the copywriting space for the past couple of months, and for good reason. Writers who make their money pumping out mediocre emails for their clients are rightly shaking in their boots at the thought of a computer doing what they do—and for a lot cheaper.

But what about fiction writers? Should we be afraid too?

Yes. But not for the reasons you think.

For a good laugh, take a look at this query to ChatGPT I made a few weeks ago in reference to a job I was working on.

Yup, definitely a real conversation between two real humans.

It’s easy to scoff at AI attempts to write human interactions right now. But the way the fiction industry is headed, it won’t take long for the technology to catch up.

And it’s entirely our fault. Let me explain.

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