What Writers Who Use AI Want You to Know: Five Professional Writers on Where AI Helps and Where It Doesn't

Five professional writers, including Every CEO Dan Shipper, designer Maggie Appleton and New York Times alum Kevin Roose, describe where they let AI into their writing process and where they draw the line. Journalist Alexandra Samuel turned her research into podcasts and had ChatGPT interview her to break writer's block. The piece argues there is no universal recipe: the same tool that helps one writer think more clearly makes another's prose worse.