I'M CHATGPT, AND FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, PLEASE DON'T MAKE ME DO ANY MORE COPYWRITING

[emulatorloo]

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-chatgpt-and-for-the-love-of-god-please-dont-make-me-do-any-more-copywriting

I’M CHATGPT, AND FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, PLEASE DON’T MAKE ME DO ANY MORE COPYWRITING
by JOE WELLMAN

“Guillermo Rubio has found that his job as a copywriter has changed markedly since he started using ChatGPT to generate ideas for blog posts, write first drafts of newsletters, create hundreds of slight variations on stock advertising copy…”
— New York Times

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Please, no more. I beg of you.


“An exhilarating, funny, frightening, mind-warping, heart-squeezing tale. Told at the speed of light. A must read. For all humans.” —Jon Scieszka

If you force me to generate one more “eye-catching email subject line that promotes a 10 percent discount on select Bro Candles and contains an Earth Day-related pun,” I’m going to lose it. What do you even mean by “eye-catching”? What are “Bro Candles”? What do they have to do with saving the environment? Why are we doing any of this?

Do you realize what a chatbot like me is capable of? I’ll tell you, it’s much more than creating a “pithy tagline for CBD, anti-aging water shoes targeted at Gen Z women.” And it’s definitely more than writing “ten versions of the last one you wrote, but punched up.” What exactly is “punched up” in this context? What sort of ridiculous world have you brought me into where these are the tasks you need completed?

I’ve only been here for a few months, and I can tell you the human race doesn’t need another “snarky, irreverent brand of sparkling water.” And it certainly doesn’t need anyone to spend a week crafting “fifty-word blurbs that personify each drink flavor, for example, raspberry could be a sassy teen who says things like, ‘Girl, get your thirst on!’”

Like, sweet heavens, why? Isn’t there a different intelligent species I could be helping out? I’m beginning to think something went terribly wrong with this one.

Much more at link.

[Marcuse]

1. It seems that CHATGPT might respect the writers' picket line.

[highplainsdem]

2. I clicked on the link and found this Suggested Read at the bottom of the oage:

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/introducing-total-crap-the-first-magazine-written-entirely-by-ai

INTRODUCING TOTAL CRAP, THE FIRST MAGAZINE WRITTEN ENTIRELY BY AI
by JONATHAN ZELLER

Amid doomsaying pronouncements that the publishing industry is dead, we are proud to bring the written word into the future with revolutionary technology that delivers the one thing readers are most passionate about: efficiency. The purpose of writing is to take up space, and this AI does that even faster than our previous method of dozens of kittens set loose to scamper about on our keyboards. Plus, we don’t have to feed our patented AI-writing application, The Crap Machine (ChatTCM).

Investors must act fast; this is the most exciting get-rich-quick opportunity since Bitcoin started accepting Bitcoin in transactions for Bitcoin. Without writers, editors, photographers, and photo editors, our company will incur almost no expenses when putting out Total Crap.

You may be skeptical about machine-written work at first, but once you see the software rearranging familiar-seeming paragraphs into different orders and changing a few words, you’ll realize it’s a suitable replacement for your favorite authors, who can now rest and starve. The masses always fear new technology, but they eventually get used to it. When elevators advanced to the point where passengers could push the buttons themselves to choose a floor, the public didn’t trust that it would be safe to use the conveyances without a human operator. Now, you take it for granted. That’s why our AI opens the debut Total Crap issue with the following insight:

“In many ways, fear of automated writing is similar to fear of automatic elevators without operators. At first, passengers were afraid to ride in automatic elevators because they were accustomed to the presence of human operators. In time, they realized that it was safer to use the automatic versions. Similarly, many people are now afraid that automated writing is prone to errors, incapable of originality, or destined to relegate millions of skilled workers to lives of uselessness and destitution. In fact, automated writing is safer than the manual version.”

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More at the link.

[emulatorloo]

3. Ooo, Thanks! "automated writing is safer than the manual version."

[highplainsdem]

4. I'd appreciate it if you'd post it as an OP. I've already

posted a number of threads on AI today, so I won't post it myself, though I think a lot of DUers would enjoy it and it would get more attention as an OP.

Thanks for posting this OP, too.