{"id":253925,"date":"2026-05-24T05:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T09:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/24\/artificial-intelligence-how-i-use-chatgpt-and-claude-as-a-professional-writer\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T05:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T09:55:08","slug":"artificial-intelligence-how-i-use-chatgpt-and-claude-as-a-professional-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/24\/artificial-intelligence-how-i-use-chatgpt-and-claude-as-a-professional-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial intelligence: How I use ChatGPT and Claude as a professional writer."},"content":{"rendered":"

Artificial intelligence: How I use ChatGPT and Claude as a professional writer.<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/slate.com\/technology\/2026\/05\/ai-chatgpt-claude-professional-writing-tool.html?viau003drss<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-05-24 05:45:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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A.I. didn\u2019t write any part of this story. A.I. didn\u2019t outline it for me and didn\u2019t catch typos on a first draft, though I don\u2019t have any more of a moral issue with that practice than I do with using spellcheck. (Slate happens to have a terrific copy desk, a perk not available at every media outlet these days.)<\/p>\n

There\u2019s still a chance I wouldn\u2019t have written this story without A.I. That\u2019s not because the tech is doing anything a person couldn\u2019t do, but because it has gotten good at removing friction in the spots where there was once just enough of it that I used to make problems for myself.<\/p>\n

I prefer to be skeptical about A.I. because people have already found so many destructive uses for it and I don\u2019t trust Sam Altman or his competitors as far as I can throw them. I\u2019m also aiming to be open-minded these days, because it\u2019s just not true anymore that the tech isn\u2019t impressive. When I talked with the prominent A.I. critic Ed Zitron for Slate in February 2025, I agreed with his view that chatbot apps had generated throngs of users but were still lacking in use cases that would take them from a cool toy to a useful tool for anyone who wasn\u2019t spending hours trying to learn how to become a power user. I now think that view is impossible to hold. Spend a few hours in Claude Code or Codex. Tell it to interview you about what you want and, after about five minutes, spin up a portfolio site based on your answers, and then think about what actual trained developers might be doing with that tool. These things do not have to rewire every element of day-to-day life to be unbelievable.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019d have asked me a year ago how I was using A.I. in my writing process, the answer would\u2019ve been \u201cNot at all, and you\u2019re a nerd for asking.\u201d Now the answer is different: I use it most days,…<\/p>\n

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