Irina Lutsenko

This article struck a chord. Instantly. It was written by the wonderful Marina Khudolei in my " Writing with The Guardian " course, but I can totally see it in the actual The Guardian . ✼✼✼ Who’s Talking? Finding a Human Voice in the Age of ChatGPT A couple of weeks ago, I needed to write a polite email to a colleague. As a non-native speaker writing in English, I often second-guess the tone of my messages—am I being too formal? Too direct? Too vague? Wanting to get it just right, I turned to my loyal friend—ChatGPT—for help. The resulting email draft was immaculate in both tone and style, and, pleased with myself, I sent it off without a second thought. When she replied a day later, I burst out laughing—her email was so eerily similar in tone and phrasing that it was instantly obvious we shared the same virtual ghostwriter. It was clear: she, too, had asked ChatGPT for help. There we were—two humans outsourcing the simple task of polite correspondence to a machine. That wa...