As a full -time writer, I know I should fear the IA. Instead, I’m embracing it

And in an era of bad news apparently unstoppable, I am choosing to see the positive aspects. There are more than I thought for the first time. The IA recently helped me reduce an irregular counting of words, killing my loved ones in a few minutes (cut my verbosity once required hours).

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From the transcription services to A in Netflix, the way we create and tell stories has been interrupted by technology. With each interruption, pain comes, especially to the status quo and the old guard. But he also showed the writers of what we are capable of when we combine and organize: one of the longest jobs in the history of Hollywood ended in 2023 only after the Writers Guild of America negotiated strong guardians on the use of the AI ​​in the film and on television, protecting the work of the writers and ensuring that it is not underlined or replaced.

There is also a wider reason why I am enthusiastic about chatgpt. Lately, I used it for “therapy litigation” purposes, after it helped me to develop a traumatic dream.

I will spare you the details, but the dream was too one -off to request further therapy sessions, too boring to bore my friends (“it was a dream! It didn’t happen!”), Too intimate for a post on social media, but too distressing for me ignore completely.

Insert chatgpt, which immediately made me feel better by providing a response and a solid table to my feelings. Pleasantly surprised, I was able to re-focus and return with my day faster. For this type of basic mental health support, the IA is a turning point. In Great Britain, for example, psychology based on artificial intelligence is now part of their national health service, with an app that offers access to appointments or support between appointments to over 250,000 people.

Since the dream, I used it regularly for too fleeting or banal daily problems to request professional support. He helped me through procrastination; He relieved scruples; And once he even prevented me from shouting to a friend for being late, calm down through a breathing technique, making me understand that my anger was disproportionate, temporary and, above all, sunsely.

The main reason why I am not (still) concerned artificial intelligence will take my job is the same reason why the good therapists are not worried that it will take. Just as the emotional connection of the consultants to their customers cannot replace, chatbots cannot replace the very human emotional connection between a writer and a reader.

Recently, I made another reduction in the counting of words on an article using chatgpt. His suggested cuts removed the flow, talent and essential nuance from the piece. Realizing what would have been lost, I returned and I did the cuts on my own.

For now, humans are still reassuringly. Those who use chatgpt well can be the ones who see the job increase, rather than drying out.