Creative Writing with an AI-Powered Writing Assistant: Perspectives from Professional Writers

Several participants wanted to be able to use Wordcraft to facilitate access to information. The idea of using the language model as a search engine repeatedly came up. In MT’s words: “I can’t read the entire internet or all the books by my favorite authors, but I can use a model like this one to leverage prolific catalogues” of information. DH hop

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The model was helpful—but only to an extent. They found that while AI improved the output of less creative writers, it made little difference to the quality of the stories produced by writers who were already creative.