The Joy of Work
I IMAGINE BOTH YOU AND I ARE CURIous to see how artificial intelligence is going to “disrupt” (to use the Silicon Valley vernacular) the writing world in the next few years. This question sizzled for me during a community development meeting in my town. I’m on the board and I’m secretary: I take notes at the meetings and also produce a newsletter. In the meeting, one of the other board members had proposed putting out a press release. She was going to ask me to write it, but then stopped herself and used ChatGPT to generate the text. It was a video meeting so she posted the copy in the chat, then made a joke (more of a half-joke) angled toward me about using AI, the overarching punchline being that…