Earlier this week, I began asking LLMs to create writing for me. As a writer, I have pretty negative feelings about this exercise—not gunna lie, as the next generation says. AI is coming for writers, we’re being told. And already, I’ve heard from working copywriters who have lost jobs to AI, or who have been told that they need to incorporate AI tools into their workflows.
Sounds bad to me.
So… can Claude.ai replace Josh.HI?
Tackling a Post I’ve Been Meaning To Write
I’m a writer, but (perhaps inevitably) I’m also a procrastinator. For the last few months, I’ve been thinking about a series of posts called “Learning To See.” I have some notes for the series, some drafts that I’m unhappy with, and a ton of doubts. So I haven’t published anything yet.
This seems like a great time to use AI, right? Automate the things you dread!
So I fed Claude.ai my raw notes for the first post, then told it to create a post based on those notes. I told it to use the Josh Seiden Substack Post Style Guide that I wrote about yesterday to get the voice right.
I encourage you to click through and read the whole post, then come back here and let me know what you think. Is it a good post? Does it sound like me? Does it sound like AI?
Tomorrow, I’ll share the version of the post that I wrote, and my thoughts about the differences between the two. In the mean time, let me know if/how AI is showing up in your writing. As a reminder, I’ve turned on subscriber chat, and would love to hear from you there.