Writing Essays With AI: A Guide from Every's Dan Shipper

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February 24th, 2023

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Dan Shipper is an entrepreneur, writer, and the co-founder and CEO of Every, a bundle of business-focused newsletters, founded in 2020. Find him on Twitter: @danshipper.

There’s a new writing technology that draws big crowds to see it used in eye-popping demonstrations. But while there’s excitement about it in some quarters, there aren’t many people actually using it.

Instead, there’s skepticism and even anger. Reading something written with it feels insulting. It’s too impersonal, and lacks a human touch. It comes off like bland corporate marketing. Not only that, but using it is expensive, and it feels like an invasion of privacy.

We’re talking about AI writing, right? No, we’re talking about typewriters.

If you read histories of typewriters, you’ll find that each one of these concerns—too impersonal, not private, too much like corporate marketing, too expensive, too much hype and not enough use cases—were brought up by people encountering them for the first time.

This is an excerpt from a story originally published on Every.to.

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Comments (17)

Edward Cederlund @cederlund

This is incredibly valuable, thanks for sharing. I love the Every newsletters! Subscribed last week :)

Mar 1, 2023

srprs @srprs

meetheverse

I truly believe that blending human creativity with AI has the power to revolutionize the writing industry, unlocking fresh possibilities for both writers and readers. This inspiring story has reinforced my optimism for the potential of this collaboration. Thank you for sharing Dan!

Mar 16, 2023

Dr Alexander Young @alexanderfyoung

Really well written, great read

Feb 28, 2023

Todd Stratton @rhisfor

This is a very interesting concept of artificial intelligence that came to us rather quickly but has already taken over the entire Internet. It's true that with the help of the chatbot a huge number of applications for content creation were found and with essays it handles just fine. I used to when I was going to write a similar work, looking for examples on resources like this link where the work about utopia. And then taking references there I wrote my own. And now I just need to make a request to the bot and everything is ready.

Feb 27, 2023