Nathaniel Whittemore supplies raw extemporaneous transcripts to artificial intelligence models to generate initial drafts of long-form companion essays

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Generative AI lowers the production time and expense needed to create synthetic text, images, maps, dashboards, and data analyses

More than half of the ebooks released on Amazon in 2025 utilized artificial intelligence

Nearly 100% of the growth in Amazon ebook releases between 2022 and late 2025 was driven by authors entering the market after ChatGPT's launch

In a study by Joel Waldfogel, artificial-intelligence-generated ebooks on Amazon had lower average star ratings, fewer user reviews, and lower sales rankings than human-written books

Google DeepMind hired professional writers during Gemini 4 Argon's development to eliminate low-quality machine-generated phrasing and improve prose structure

Dan Schipper identified Gemini 4 Argon as an effective editorial writing partner for structuring complex essays, sharpening metaphors, and performing textual analysis

If think tanks let AI models write their reports whole cloth, the think tanks themselves would have no reason to exist

It is becoming difficult to teach students how to write well when they can use AI to produce consistently good text

Using an AI to write an entire report that an author then claims as their own is unethical

Using AI for tasks like fact-checking or a light copy edit on a self-drafted essay is considered an acceptable use

Longer context lengths in AI models were a significant unlock for co-writing, allowing an entire novel to be analyzed

Early AI writing models had limitations like short context length, which required careful management of the creative process

Joel Borgen co-wrote his novel, 'The Receipt Horizon,' in collaboration with AI models

AI-generated prose often requires human scaffolding and editing to be readable, even with a detailed plan

AI can act as an assistant to bring potential issues in a manuscript to an author's attention for a final decision

Investor Stan Druckenmiller confirmed using AI as a tool to help write his Wall Street Journal op-ed.

Using AI for most emails is considered safe because they are not typically judged on prose quality.

CNBC's Deirdre Bossa proposed that AI is best for the middle of the writing process, while humans should handle the beginning and end.

Aria Deniz argued that AI is a valuable tool for helping experts articulate their thoughts more clearly.

The fifth rule for AI writing is that the process of writing is fundamentally an exercise in thinking.