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How Artificial Intelligence Made Me A Better Writer
Rather than take our jobs, AI will help us get better.
When I tell people artificial intelligence made me a better writer, they almost always give me a weird look.
“How could AI help you?” they ask. They assume AI technology is still far off, not with us today. And even if AI tech is decent now, there’s no way it could help someone who writes for a living, right? Nope, wrong.
Over the past two years, I’ve adopted AI software at every opportunity and can report that the productivity gain is absurd. AI has helped me cut down on menial work and spend more time on creativity, realizing a long-prophesied promise about the technology. It’s also teaching me to write tighter and with more precision, and it’s shockingly good in this regard. Some “experts” say AI will replace writers. That’s far off. Instead, it will make us better.
As an independent writer, my copy must be flawless. My writing can’t have errors, or my readers will lose trust (I pray to god there are none in this story). It also can’t meander, or readers will tune out. To address this, I use Grammarly, an AI software tool that catches style errors and teaches me how to correct them.
Grammarly’s helped me fix several embarrassing tendencies that once made my…
