My Fellow Writers, What in the GPT is Going On?

From Behind the Pen

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Should we panic yet? Oh, my dear writers, while I am all in for technological advancements to a degree, are we inviting technology to grab our last bit of human creativity by replacing us in pivotal areas of communication? Exploring ideas, collaborating with other creative minds, and using our human senses, make us wonder if the latest language models will affect our intelligence vs. that of the artificial. Don’t think the idea of replacing writers and their livelihoods is off-limits or farfetched when it comes down to the invasion of the so-called human-like intelligence known as GPT.

For you writers making a living from your writing can you imagine being replaced by GPTs? I’m sure by now you have heard of those text generators, the AI chatbot known as a Generative Pre-trained Transformer. It is the latest addition already infiltrating many curricula and writing communities based on…

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What climate story are you telling?

Darcy Hitchcock

Humans are storytellers. It’s how we make sense of the world. Our brains are constantly weaving what we see and hear into a narrative. This happened because… She said that because… Even in our sleep, our brains try to weave seemingly random images and even the sound of our alarm clock into a dream story. Stories affect how we see ourselves, how we see the world, and what we think we can do.

Theme and structure

So the climate story you tell matters. If the theme is, “We’re toast,” then what action is there left for people to take? If you tell success stories, then it leaves people wondering, “Why can’t we do that here?” If your story is filled with dry statistics, people will tune out, but if it’s rich with emotion and even some tension, they’ll listen. There’s a reason so many plays are in three acts: setup…

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हथेलियां / Palms

Kaushal Kishore

चाहे चीजें हो या खुशियां,
उन्हें बटोरने में
हथेलियां छोटी पड़ जाती हैं,
कुछ न कुछ छूट ही जाता है,
लेकिन उन्हें साझा करने के लिए
ऐसा कतई नहीं है..

🤲 🤲 🤲 🤲 🤲 🤲

Whether things or happiness,
palms are too small
to collect them,
something always gets missed,
but it’s not so
while sharing them…

–Kaushal Kishore

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हाजमा / Digestion

👁️👂👄👂👁️भगवान ने हमें दिए हैंदो आंखेंसिर्फ देखने के लिए,और दो कानेंसिर्फ सुनने के लिए,लेकिन सिर्फ एक मुंहखाने और बोलने दोनों के लिए… भगवान की …

हाजमा / Digestion