Text generators have been around for years, but they’ve finally gotten good. Where previous iterations required a heavy edit, the latest version of ChatGPT from OpenAI writes with better grammar than I – sorry, me. But both chatbots and generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools like the newly launched GPT-4 also lack that creative spark.
This is largely down to how they work. ChatGPT’s machine learning system, for example, was trained on 570GB of text from Wikipedia, the open internet and books. Churning through those 300 billion words taught the system how sentences are structured, but it still doesn’t understand what it’s saying – and that means the outputted paragraphs read naturally, but might not be accurate.
