"Art"-official Writing



Words become art when sequentially placed in such a way as to stir the emotions and imagination. It is a task evidenced by countless crumpled drafts covering floors or empty pages staring back at the creator. But, alas! #chatgpt has arrived.

Like you, I have had some, though not extensive, consideration of this #technology. During a recent rumination of the technology it struck me - the #art of #writing is experiencing what the visual arts already has: mass production. At least as I recall the essay of Walter Benjamin from 1936 entitled “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” 

When art becomes mechanized, it becomes mass produced. So what does this mean? One answer is the likelihood of future “truths” conjured by #ai will be contingent on its ability to separate the more frequent conjecture from less prominent primary and seminal source documents.  And that is what great writing - unpliagarized writing is; a single great performance where content knowledge, vocabulary, structural elements of writing and a wisdom are tied together. 

So that’s my hope for the future of ChatGPT and others like it - that it mass produces quality content.

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