Expert writing, ChatGPT-like tools and originality
In this blog article we discuss how tools like ChatGPT impact expert writing, i.e., writing about some subject matter. Typical expert writing is academic writing, like papers or theses, but also technical reports in R&D or sometimes mails in a company, in a certain sense also source code. We leverage the model of McEnerny to distinguish between writing for thinking and writing for text, and ask how generative AI impacts each of them. Finally, we discuss what we may expect from the output of LLM-based AI systems like ChatGPT in terms of originality, novelty and understanding and how this might...