Nate Silver referring to ChatGPT as his "creative muse" in bookwriting is the perfect example of what people with a limited ability to express themselves expect ChatGPT to do for them—and is 100% what ChatGPT cannot deliver.

Welp, I learned something today about Nate Silver.

It is a slippery slope for some, especially among the less talented. It seems many indies are only interested in the money (because there’s so much money to be made from writing novels). For them, indie publishing is a job, instead of a passion/implacable/unscratchable urge to create.

Yesterday, I was teaching Hesiod, and we were discussing what Hesiod claims to get from the muses. Then I see that Nate Silver thinks of ChatGPT as a muse. A new Dark Ages looms.

"I will finally also have good ideas! And understand why people make art..."

Did Nate refer to it like that, or did ChatGPT?

Apropos this, I see that a helpful AI popped up in my phones messenger service. Which presumably means it will just be AI to AI conversations between people based on their prompts. Great.

This is so remarkably bleak, and makes me trust his perspective even less.

I use ChatGPT to feel better about myself lol. Even Quora has more inspiration.

Did he get divorced recently or something?

ChatGPT is fun because I can spend ten minutes typing out the details of my magic system and then it gives me the ten worst ideas I have ever heard in my life. But then again, bad writing always inspires me to be better.