How To Use (and Not Use) AI / ChatGPT in Your Writing

From an article in Forbes:

"This new frontier of invention will cause people to be lazy.

They won’t use their own minds anymore—they will rely on the device for everything.

This will be the end of true creativity and originality.

At first blush, the above arguments sound as though they could be taken from any one of the many articles and think pieces published in the past few months about the impact of ChatGPT on current students. However, these arguments come directly from the fifth century B.C.E.—recorded in The Phaedrus, these statements paraphrase Socrates’ objections to the invention of writing."

Come for a presentation and discussion of how to use ChatGPT for brainstorming, critique, research, planning, and motivation - but not for the "writing" part of writing. The fun part is still up to us.