23 June 2025

ChatGPT, Easy For Your Writing! Writer Or Not, How Do You Improve Your Writing Skills?

Wikipedia says (en.wikipedia.org), “ChatGPT is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI and released on November 30, 2022.” For one, ChatGPT can generate an essay for you and nobody else would know! (image from bigthink.com)

Yes, but that would be cheating yourself in the first place!

Do you want to learn how to write, or do you want to just submit a paper or two so that you can graduate?

We have quite a few misunderstandings of Artificial Intelligence (AI) such as represented by ChatGPT:

“Study Reveals That ChatGPT Erodes Critical Thinking Skills” (emphasis supplied) – Ron Lim, (GMA Lifestyle, gmanetwork.com/lifestyle). I writer & editor say that that is not correct! What it erodes is Creative Thinking – because you allow the machine to think and write for you!

“A study conducted by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab has shown that students who used OpenAI's ChatGPT to write SAT essays … consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels.” Of course! They learned to copy, not to think for themselves. Copycats, not Creators.

“Study Reveals That ChatGPT Erodes Critical Thinking Skills” – Ron Lim, (GMA Lifestyle, gmanetwork.com/lifestyle):

“There's a prevailing perception that the use of AI (artificial intelligence) means a person is less competent, and now a study has come out that may just prove that that perception is actually reality.”

Reality: AI is a choice – and we cannot choose for other people.

“A study conducted by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab has shown that students who used OpenAI's ChatGPT to write SAT essays ended up with the lowest brain engagement and ‘consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels. If you use AI like ChatGPT, you lose your originality, or at least do not develop it. Those who used AI also eventually indeed up copy-pasting by the end of the study.”

When you use ChatGPT, you are simply a copycat, not an original – do you like that?

I say now, paraphrasing Shakespeare: “With ChatGPT, Frailty, thy name is human!”

“Meanwhile, those who used just their brains, as well as those who used Google search, were more engaged and curious and were satisfied with their essays.”

Yes, but it’s so much easier to use ChatGPT!

Those who use ChatGPT to produce the essay or story they want or need are not using their heads, only their hands!

But – This Editor In Chief says, “The only way to learn how to write is to use your head, not your hands!

In the title, I mentioned Multiple Intelligences (MI), and here is the MI list: 1. Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence (“Body Smart”),
2. Creative Intelligence (“Thinking Smart”), added by FAH,
3. Existential Intelligence (“Life Smart”),
4. Interpersonal Intelligence (“People Smart”),
5. Intrapersonal Intelligence (“Self Smart”),
6. Mathematical-Logical Intelligence (“Number/Reasoning Smart”),
7. Musical Intelligence (“Music Smart”),
8. Naturalist Intelligence (“Nature Smart”),
9. Spatial Intelligence (“Image Smart”), and
10. Verbal-Linguistic Intelligence (“Word Smart”).

There are 10 different ways being original. Of course it’s much easier to just be a copycat!@517

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