I disagree, in part. As a (wannabe-science-fiction) writer, I think GPT-3 has potential to be useful. In my case, I have plenty of stories I want to write, lot

I disagree, in part. As a (wannabe-science-fiction) writer, I think GPT-3 has potential to be useful. In my case, I have plenty of stories I want to write, lots of ideas that I want to play with. The thing I struggle with is writing the first draft of a story - it turns out that I find writing the first draft of a story to be really, really boring work (even with the help of NaNoWriMo). My fingers are typing out the words for chapter 3 but my brain is already grappling with the obvious plot holes in chapter 28. This is where GPT-3 could really help: churning out words to fill the page with crap first draft copy. Feed the existing copy into the GPT-3 engine, alongside some prompts about the directions I want the story to go, themes I want it to tackle, etc. Receive back 2-3 drafts of the next thousand-15 hundred words. Then edit the heck out of those suggested words to bring the crap copy into line with my vision for the chapter. I like this idea because most of my storytelling work happens in the first and second revisions, not the initial draft. I'd be happy to call the results my work, not the work of some mindless ML bot. Proper writers will probably feel differently about the process.