Summary
- A Hackaday writer, Jenny List, has tried to use ChatGPT to write in her style and voice, but with mixed results.
- While the output was in a similar style to her writing, it was not entirely convincing.
- One reason for this was that it failed to match her style of punctuation, and lacked inferences, being very facts-based.
- ChatGPT wrote about a soon-to-reenter Soviet Venus mission, citing facts but lacking speculation on likely outcomes.
- This is comforting for human writers, as it shows AIs still have shortcomings.
- Humans writing for Hackaday still have the edge, due to the inference and subtle style choices they make which AIs cannot currently replicate.
- It is still useful for fact-checking and other rote tasks, but should not be seen as a threat to human technical writers yet.
By Jenny List
Original Article