ChatGPT took their jobs. Now they walk dogs and fix air conditioners
As someone who makes a good portion of my living as a writer, I choose to embrace ChatGPT to make me more productive. That&#x27;s how I stay relevant.<p>For example, today it helped me write a press release. We had dialogue back and forth. I told it to ask me thoughtful questions, and it did. After 5 minutes of back-and-forth, I had the bones of a high-quality press release put together. I then edited it until it met my standards, and submitted it.<p>This process would have previously taken me a few hours. Today it took less than 30 minutes.<p>As a result, my value to my employer has gone up because of ChatGPT. I&#x27;m able to get a lot more done with it, and they&#x27;d be fools to simply replace me with the bot.<p>In other words, and I&#x27;m hardly the only one saying this: ChatGPT is not a replacement for people. It&#x27;s an augmentation. It&#x27;s a bicycle for the mind, to steal Steve Jobs&#x27;s famous metaphor.<p>I think if you&#x27;re a writer who refuses to embrace this new reality, you should absolutely be worried. But if you embrace the inevitable, the combination of a skilled copywriter + ChatGPT is incredible. It&#x27;s my writing partner. I&#x27;m still in charge, calling all the shots. But my writing partner helps to prevent writer&#x27;s block.<p>Often, I won&#x27;t use a single word it produced. Instead, it gives me a starting point. Sometimes that starting point is little more than &quot;I need to do better than what this machine produced, because this is crap.&quot; But it&#x27;s soooo much easier to improve on garbage than it is to create out of the blue.<p>So, I don&#x27;t think AI is coming for our jobs as writers. If used well, it&#x27;s the best writing partner you could ask for.