Are You Using AI in Your Writing?

[I recently posted about my experiments with ChatGPT. I also polled people on how comfortable they were with using AI for writing, from just checking for errors up to creating something for you, in your voice. See the fascinating debate with huge range of responses on LinkedIn.]

I’m increasingly using ChatGPT in my daily work, including my writing.

I’ve used it mainly to edit. I’ll paste a draft and ask if anything is unclear or missing, or simply say “Tighten this.” And I often think, “Oh, it’s right, those 3 sentences could be one”…and I then edit my own piece (not cut-and-paste).

But yesterday I tried something new: I gave it half a piece and some notes and said, “Finish this.” What came back looked really good and, well, sounded like me. [I didn’t end up using much of it, but still.]

I asked ChatGPT HOW it writes like me. It then accurately described my own style to me in a few bullets. And now it has read every article on my blog (where I re-post most of my published work). It can recreate me.

So here’s the question:
How do we feel about using AI — trained on our own writing — to help create something new?

[here are the results – more than 1/3 are ok with AI writing a full draft]

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2 Responses

Pat McLagan says:

July 23, 2025 at 2:24 pm

Fascinating. I am also using Chat and other AI’s this way. I always check and too frequently find misinformation when I ask it to research something. But I consider it a good junior partner in my work.
1. Andrew Winston says:
  
  July 24, 2025 at 5:20 pm
  
  “Junior partner” is a good phrase for it. And yes, there are errors. For anything data related, i ask for the link and go check it out.