Can ChatGPT Edit?

I finally tried it.

Chris Weber
5 min readJan 3, 2023
Photo by Andrea De Santis on Unsplash

As I write this, I have a poll running on Twitter. I asked my friends if they would use artificial intelligence to finish a novel.

ChatGPT told me to do this.

Not verbatim… I asked it how to get more social media interactions. One idea was to start a poll.

I have been writing about AI for a while now. Not as a proponent. I worried when I first heard of computers that could write. I started adding this fear into my novel.

I decided that there was only one way I could confront my fear. I had to face it head-on. I started writing about AI.

As a fan of science fiction and a communication scholar, I have been trained to look ahead. I wanted to know what ChatGPT was capable of. I have seen some flash fiction from this animal. I was less than impressed.

The first question I asked ChatGPT was simple. It is a question I have asked Google many times before. I asked it how to get more…

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Chris Weber

Measuring the gravity in collisions of technology and news. I'm diving into the intricate world of media to untangle Earth's most captivating stories.