Will ChatGPT Replace the Need for Writers? The Bot Itself Says No

A totally serious, completely candid interview with everyone’s (current) favorite AI about the ethics and blind spots of replacing writing with artificial intelligence

Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey
24 min readJan 25, 2023
Two grey human-like figures, presumably bots, sit on the ground. One is using a laptop and the other is looking at a tablet.
Photo by Brett Jordan on Unsplash

Two days ago, I was in a meeting when a colleague asked me if “all this ChatGPT stuff” had me worried as a writer.

A few days before that, I edited an article about OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, in which the writer speculated that the bot would soon be able to do his job, and he’d be out of work.

Somewhere in between, someone I play Dungeons and Dragons with mused that perhaps the controversial (and disputed) rumor that Wizards of the Coast will turn D&D into a digital-first, pay-to-play model that would include AI DMs is a sign that eventually the Hasbro subsidiary would get rid of its writing team entirely in favor of AI-generated campaigns.

Sometime last year, I spoke with an SEO consultant who said they generally didn’t hire freelance writers like me because they could have an AI write optimized content that was “good enough.”

My friends who teach high school and college English and History classes are worried their students will stop writing…

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Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey
Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

Written by Jillian Ashley Blair Ivey

Teller of tales—mine and others'. Eater of foods—cooked and ordered. Yoga instructor. Phillies fan. Former Texan.

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