The article discusses the commercial featuring a character named Warren, who uses AI to enhance his writing. It draws parallels between AI-assisted writing and traditional ghostwriting roles. The author highlights positive perspectives from various sources, including medical professionals, on how AI tools like ChatGPT can aid in writing. The article also mentions the Ghostwriter add-in for Microsoft Office that integrates ChatGPT for easy access while writing. The author shares personal insights from their experience as a corporate ghostwriter, underlining AI's expanding influence in writing.
Warren has a ghostwriter. In fact, we all do. I'm hardly alone in thinking AI chat bots such as ChatGPT are a lot like ghostwriting.
An especially intriguing piece appeared in, of all places, Annals of Surgical Oncology: "A Ghostwriter for the Masses: ChatGPT and the Future of Writing." The author, a physician, writes mostly positively of the potential uses of ChatGPT to assist in medical and scientific writing.
With Ghostwriter, you simply open Word and have the chat bot on the same screen as your document—a ghost in the machine.
Throughout most of my academic career I moonlighted as a corporate ghostwriter. I wrote magazine articles on scientific topics for a large technical company.
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