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Notes on Joan Didion’s “Play It as It Lays”
Play It as It Lays, by Joan Didion, is a gut-wrenching story about numbness and despair, and is a case study in using style to convey meaning.
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What's something I could do to make my next article better?
It's not very original these days, but I asked ChatGPT for feedback. Here's the output:
"Here are a few tips to improve your article on Joan Didion's "Play It As It Lays":
By incorporating these tips, you can make your article more engaging, persuasive, and insightful for readers."
Maybe it will help you :)
Some of that is decent advice, and thank you for trying to be helpful, but you shouldn't submit people's work to an ai without permission. That AI is going to use any text submitted to it as part of its training set, and this will make it slightly harder for writers' work to stand out from ai writing in the future.
A bunch of my articles say "permission is not granted to use this to train an ai," but I forgot to add it to this one. Eg, the bottom of this one, https://barbariangrunge.substack.com/p/dizzying-pressure-in-jessica-knolls
Thank you for letting me know. I'm sorry for any trouble.
BTW, I think it is too late:( I don't think that on average, human writers/creators will stand a chance against AI. And this future is approaching faster than we may realize, I'm afraid.