Why AI Will Never Replace a Single True Writer

Use the artificial, but don’t forget adding intelligence

Image via Stable Diffusion XL // Prompt: a writer, confidently writing, sparks flying from her laptop, burning away robots in the background

With OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT making not just a splash but a tidal wave in the news in recent months, people have fallen into a pattern as old as humans themselves: proclaiming the death of something tried and true at the expense of a new, utopian future. In this case, writing is the victim…