Clive Thompson
Mar 22, 2024

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I've experimented with using ChatGPT to write a draft, but, alas, it hasn't yet worked well for me. It's fine for writing basic boilerplate stuff or explainers; but if you want to write an essay or a reported piece that's based on my own original reporting -- i.e. not just sort of a slurry of the vectorally average info suitable to answer a prompt -- it doesn't work ... among other things, it doesn't have appear to have any way to think about the structure of a magazine piece (my main structure) ...

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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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