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I've been asking it to rewrite things in the voice of Ernest Hemingway and Jack Kerouac. It dives into cliches pretty quickly but it does give you something new to work with

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Literally just read that first half of Ben Franklin's autobiography this morning, in my morning time of solitude, no less! And I kid you not, I was thinking about how ChatGPT might be able to help me do a bit of the heavy lifting and inject some dynamism into what he was doing back in the day. Voila, here's your post. Nice timing. Thanks for sharing, gave me food for thought on the specifics

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Very Nice. "critique my paragraph as if it were DFW" is a great insight. Hadn't thought of that before. The response was quite useful too.

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The end is near for writers who writes for a living. The question is how can writers value-add to the world in the dawn of a new era dominated by AI? Be relevant or become obsolete. It is an existential question.

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Wow, that's a good way to use it, Nat.

I have tried to give Chat GPT my last article and to write it more positively and it was awful 😅 Simply because I guess it totally lacked my style.

But after a few iterations, it actually got better. I guess I could teach it to write like me. But that would mean outsourcing my favourite passion. Which does not seem like a good idea.

I guess your approach is better ;)

So that, as I have written, we can "Keep things special"!

https://livmkk.substack.com/p/keep-things-special

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