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<blockquote data-quote="Clint_L" data-source="post: 8934414" data-attributes="member: 7035894">I also think folks are really overetimating the quality of most human-produced writing. 99.9% of it is meant to be functional. I hate to say it, but nobody buys a Campaign Setting for the writing. Because the writing is mostly repetitive and banal. Even in the good ones. We're not talking Joyce, here. You buy a campaign setting for the ideas. ChatGPT can help creators focus on the ideas rather than the drudgery of producing their mostly competent writing.This is also not an all or nothing situation. When a creator has something brilliant to write, they will write it. But when it is just the pot boiler stuff, the stuff that often gets handed off to an assistant anyway? Eh.Edit: whenever a new communications technology comes along, people tend to freak out. You know what Socrates hated? Writing! He thought it would wreak havoc on the ability of young Athenians to think for themselves and keep long texts in their minds. He was right, about the last part anyway! And maybe about the first, as writing made it much easier for brains to get all infected with ideas from other people. But I think most of us would now agree that literacy was a net gain for humanity. I'm a positive thinker. I think AI will unleash even more of our potential.Or, you know, I'll have a lot of egg on my face when our robot overlords take over next week.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Clint_L, post: 8934414, member: 7035894"] I also think folks are really overetimating the quality of most human-produced writing. 99.9% of it is meant to be functional. I hate to say it, but nobody buys a Campaign Setting for the writing. Because the writing is mostly repetitive and banal. Even in the good ones. We're not talking Joyce, here. You buy a campaign setting for the ideas. ChatGPT can help creators focus on the ideas rather than the drudgery of producing their mostly competent writing. This is also not an all or nothing situation. When a creator has something brilliant to write, they will write it. But when it is just the pot boiler stuff, the stuff that often gets handed off to an assistant anyway? Eh. Edit: whenever a new communications technology comes along, people tend to freak out. You know what Socrates hated? [I]Writing![/I] He thought it would wreak havoc on the ability of young Athenians to think for themselves and keep long texts in their minds. He was right, about the last part anyway! And maybe about the first, as writing made it much easier for brains to get all infected with ideas from other people. But I think most of us would now agree that literacy was a net gain for humanity. I'm a positive thinker. I think AI will unleash even more of our potential. Or, you know, I'll have a lot of egg on my face when our robot overlords take over next week. [/QUOTE]

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