Ask HN: Are you less envious of people with strong language skills now?

It seems that ChatGPT has taken their advantage away since you can now use this amazing AI to make your writing top-notch.

quickthrower2 · 3 years ago

Opposite. ChatGPT has lowered the bar to entry of creating drivel to probably 2c/750 words. When I saw it can produce text as good as some stuff I have written, it made me realize more imagination is needed to make my writing more interesting or go deeper into a subject than a bot can possibly do. i’m

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MildlySerious · 3 years ago

Even if ChatGPT relieves you of the question how you're going to say something, it still requires you to know what to say, and when.

It can't tell you what you need if you don't know to ask for it.

The how that ChatGPT can address is really the smallest part of my struggles, most of the time.

dtagames · 3 years ago

No you can't. You can only use it to present someone else's work as your own.

amichail · 3 years ago

Have you tried it? You can use it to check your writing and suggest improvements.

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PaulHoule · 3 years ago

I hired an editor once who added more mistakes to my writing he removed.

ChatGPT has a hypnotic ability that comes from its being trained to pick the least surprising next word. It is very fatiguing to catch its mistakes and if you falter and let one through your only consolation is that it will also hypnotize most of your readers.

mattl · 3 years ago

And when you need to write something without it, and you write garbage what then?

neximo64 · 3 years ago

But not your speaking.. which is where it matters alot.

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