Clive Thompson
1 min readJan 14, 2023

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Glad you liked it!

I think we'll evolve ways of using AI-assisted writing tools that different groups of people agree upon, or have protocols or standards.

Grammarly, for example, is something most people would agree upon as a pretty useful tool with no ethical downsides.

I've written about novelists using ChatGPT to work out plot ideas -- they mostly feel that is acceptable, since it's not using the AI to write things line by lines; they're just canvassing it for ideas. (It's here, item #4 in this edition of this newsletter I recently launched: https://buttondown.email/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-1-new-mannahatta-spiderweb-cognition-and/)

Other writers don't think it's okay to use ChatGPT in any way, since they don't like the fact that it was trained by scraping other people's text from all over the Internet ...

Basically, this is a period where we'll make a lot of philosophical and ethical and aesthetic choices!

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Clive Thompson
Clive Thompson

Written by Clive Thompson

I write 2X a week on tech, science, culture — and how those collide. Writer at NYT mag/Wired; author, “Coders”. @clive@saturation.social clive@clivethompson.net

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