In the same way that giving a graphing calculator to students wont make them ace math classes, giving a student an English calculator (GPT4) wont make them ace anything with writing. Laziness will always yield poor results.

> I love chatGPT because it obviates stuffy academic writing. Who needs it. Be clear and direct, that’s valuable!

The goal of a paper, I thought, is thinking and not writing. Without outside help (including the AI), clear and direct thinking is what leads to clear and direct writing. What is being achieved here?

Do you use chatGPT? It’s a dialectic. You think with it. You have to tell it what you want, clearly and directly.

It’s why it’s often not a time saver for writing once you know what you want. But it can help you get going when you don’t. Many other benefits. It does not guarantee good writing, far from it!

> You have to tell it what you want, clearly and directly.

> It’s why it’s often not a time saver for writing once you know what you want. But it can help you get going when you don’t. Many other benefits. It does not guarantee good writing, far from it!

Thanks. I was thinking that I need to know clearly what I want, and if I do, ChatGPT would only slow me down. Your perspective makes much more sense.

Exactly. Perfect grammar, syntax, and essay structure can still yield an unconvincing argument.

Next we'll have editors that can tell us that what we're writing is trite.

LLMs tend to mimic "marketing vague" unless you give them targeted and specific instructions. At which point you're basically subediting an LLM.