Stop Asking Writers if ChatGPT is Frightening Them

I will send this article to the next interviewer who asks me this

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Let’s talk about one of my old articles where I started with a story — a girl (me) hesitates to thank a guy on her first date for dropping her home.

She hesitates because she wonders why she should be in a situation where she needs such help. What on earth has she done to have to be dependent on anyone like that? And other thoughts like these.

In the story, a line goes like this — “I thanked him casually for his kind gesture…” When I submitted the full write-up to ChatGPT for proofreading, it wasn’t convinced that the word ‘casually’ added anything meaningful. So it suggested me to remove it.

Even after I shared the entire 2000-word article, which explores the act of thanking and expands to other important topics, ChatGPT still wasn’t interested in keeping the word ‘casually’.

Now of course, Prompt writing is a skill and with better prompts it will retain the sense of the sentence or may beautify it. But the point is, it’s not within AI’s “intelligence” to keep it.

It’s a great, super-efficient tool — quick and intelligent. But still, just a tool.