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Something I found interesting about reading this thread is that it made me wonder how many people think of ChatGPT as primarily a tool for writing things for you I use ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini possibly 100+ times a day and NONE of those uses are to produce writing that I then share with other people

I wonder if I'm an outlier in this? Are most ChatGPT users leaning on it more for writing on their behalf? Aside from writing code and being a thesaurus I see it mainly as a curiosity engine - a tool for helping explore a weird, blurry, occasionally misleading but absolutely vast pool of knowledge

This fascinating (and clearly well sourced) piece from New York Magazine does seem to indicate that many of today's students are All In on having it write for them though nymag.com/intelligence...

I'm also likely extremely far from the normal in that I enjoy writing and I'm very experienced at it - I write for an audience on a daily basis I imagine a lot of people rarely do that, aside from text messages to friends and family

If LLMs mean people who don't write at all start writing, even if it's mostly clumsy AI-assisted prose that feels a little bit "off", is that really such a bad thing? I'm not talking about spam here, I'm talking about people who have something to say but previously lacked the confidence to share