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People are using ChatGPT to write everything from poetry to entire books. So far it seems like it's doing it very well and ridiculously fast. I want to talk about what this means for the future of writing.Related article - https://thespectator.com/book-and-art/artificial-intelligence-ai-destroy-writing-chatgpt/If you want to reach product-market fit faster, sign up for my free 5 day email course here - https://nxtstep.io/fit/Episode TranscriptHey folks, Sean here and today what I wantto talk to you about is with the latestdevelopments tool Chat GPT from OpenAI, how I thinkAI may ultimately replace humans as authors.So my friends and I have been spending quite abit of time with Chat GPT and in particular frommy perspective, I'm most interested in the unique use casespeople are coming up with in terms of how toleverage this technology to generate value.And I'm using that for the most part tocreate content, content like this so I can sharewhat I'm learning with you so that it helpsyou figure out how to make your products better.But of all the other folks in my network,they're using it for different reasons as well too.And I wanted to learn more about that.So I have a bunch of content that Iwant to produce, right, and that includes email courses,ebooks, even books and things like that about thistype of content specifically and all the various othersubjects that I usually cover.Now, one of the biggest bottlenecks todoing that is it's time consuming.It takes quite a bit of time for me tohave to sit down, plan it out, create outlines andthen ultimately write everything, proofread it, get the grammar correct,which is definitely not a strength of mine.I'm an engineer by trade, which means for themost part I can't spell in almost any language.But as I'm learning about some of these otheruse cases and what folks have been using itfor, I'm hearing everything from people are writing remarkablepoetry that's indistinguishable from some of the greatest artistsall the way to and through.People are leveraging it to create entire books forwhich they may have already been publishing on Amazonof different categories and things like that.So that really sent me down a rabbit hole of figuringout and really asking the question what is an author?Because where this came from was when I was speakingwith some of my colleagues, I was trying to figureout for what Chat GPT has been producing in termsof the questions we ask and the help that wewant, the information we're trying to gain access to.When it's asked sometimes for sources, that's kind of thequestion that came up is like when you're asking itto cite where it's got that information from.Because I know attribution is a big thing that alot of people in particular authors are concerned about andin some instances, in terms of at least from whatI've heard, I still need to do more testing.Sometimes it will list the sources, but sometimes it'spulling it from so many different locations that sometimesI think there's a little bit of pushback there.So this part is at least unclear.But that made me think about yet another questionin terms of, well, what makes an author?What would the difference be in terms of what a humanmay be doing versus what the AI may be doing?Because as I started to think about it, Iwas thinking that I think the AI or thetech is essentially following the same, if not asimilar process as a human would, but just ata remarkably faster and more efficient pace.It can be more effective as well too, becauseyou can apply different types of rules like grammarand spelling and all that kind of stuff inorder to make sure that it's essentially as perfectas it's going to be and you can introducedifferent styles and all kinds of things like that.So anyway, that's the question that I'm posing here.I want to dive into some detail from anarticle that I read which really painted a veryparticular picture about what the future of writing lookslike with the advent of this technology.Now, from one of the enlightening articles that Ifound, which paints somewhat of a gloomy picture herein terms of what the future looks like forauthors, it makes two specific key points which Ithink are very relevant in this context.And that's the fact that, number one, the predictionfrom this writer with decades of experience is thatwriting is essentially over and that authors should dropit or switch almost entirely because rather soon thecomputers will be here too.And their words quote, do it better, which I canunderstand and has kind of been the plot for aton of sci-fi movies for decades at this point.And the second, which is even more interesting to mebecause I'm not sure I completely, 100% agree and Iwant to talk about what I mean by that, butI do see where they're coming from, is that ifyou break writing down to a formula, so to speak,it essentially is an algorithm.And this is where I would agreewith this author as well too.Is that's kind of where I was when I wasthinking through citing sources and pulling information from where?And is AI essentially an author?Can it become an author like chat GPT?What's the difference between Chat GPTwriting something and me writing something?Chances are we're going through a similar process.We're going to do research, we're goingto create outlines, that type of thing.The difference is the technology is doingit ridiculously faster than I am.So that's really what it broke down to for me.It's pulling information from different sources.It's arguably learning.Like when I was going to school a millionyears ago, what they would talk to you aboutis you needed to paraphrase, you couldn't just plagiarizeand all this other type of stuff.You got to cite your sources and whatnot.And I understand all of that, but the thingthat always was questionable for me was like, well,what's the difference between me just reading and learningand kind of like paraphrasing, so to speak, versustaking that information and sharing it.It seemed very similar to me.So to me there appeared to be quite a bit of gray area.So if you look at it at a fundamentallevel in terms of what writing is, I would100% completely agree that it's an algorithm and theprocess that's followed by humans probably very similar tothese language models like Chad GPT.As such, the results that are produced probablyare of equal, if not greater quality anddone remarkably faster and more efficiently than ahuman who could ever do it.So that brings me to the next question,which is, if that's the case, then whatdoes the future of writing actually look like?So as I asked myself this question and starteddoing research down another rabbit hole here in termsof what does the future of writing look like,I realized that ultimately what it really boils downinto is will writers in the current format inw...