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I’m a newspaper editor. The people who are/were most excited about this tech, also happened to be the folks who did none of the actual writing to begin with.
We had sales folks gleefully hand us texts for advertisers that they’d ‘written’ with ChatGPT. Those texts contained so much wrong info, it wasn’t even funny. It made up things, had wrong information about websites, contact info, that sort of thing.
But since the sales monkeys weren’t actual writers, they didn’t catch on to that. Meanwhile, we were spending more time fact checking and unfucking their texts than if we’d written it ourselves in the first place.
It CAN be helpful to shorten or rearrange already written things, but if you ask it to write from scratch, it’s usually not going to be good.