The Ultimate Anti-ChatGPT Primer: 5 Disturbing Facts for Writers (from a B2B Copywriter)

Some folks are predicting “legacy writers” will struggle in the future.

“Embrace AI or struggle!” they proclaim.

Hogwash.

Jumping into the AI pool as a writer without thinking through all the consequences is a sketchy move at best . . . and career-damaging at worst.

If you are embracing ChatGPT as the great new liberator from critical thinking so you can “boost” your writing career, let's review a few facts.

Fact 1. Privacy concerns

An online Vice article by Samantha Cole reports that ChatGPT users are seeing conversation histories from other random people in their own accounts.

(Source: ChatGPT Users Report Being Able to See Random People's Chat Histories)

Of course, the privacy, security, and legal implications of this should alarm everyone.

Do the 4,000 lawyers using ChatGPT at PricewaterhouseCoopers in 100 countries to speed up productivity know about this leak?

Fact 2. Lawsuit: Copyright issues

Lawyer Ruth Carter states:

“AI software is often trained by scraping content from the internet. This means the output could be a copy of or a derivative work of someone else’s copyright-protected work. It’s a setup for you and the AI company to be sued for copyright infringement…”

"If you’ve read the OpenAI terms (which no one has except me), it says that there’s no guarantee that it would not produce the same output for two different users.

“If the input is someone else’s copyright-protected work or someone else’s copyright-protected work was used to create the output, the output is an unauthorized derivative work of that other person’s work, aka copyright infringement.”

(Source: Michelle Garrett; The Realities of Using ChatGPT to Write for You — What to Consider When It Comes to Legalities, Reputation, Search and Originality)

Fact 3. Lawsuit: Generating private info

You could be sued for using private information originally inputted by company employees.

Fact 4. Lawsuit: Inputting private info

You could be sued for inputting private client information to generate content.

Fact 5. Some other goodies to add:

- Google penalties

- SEO risks

- Brand damage

- Errors

- Unemotional copy

- Off-brand voice

- Outdated content

- No personal experience

The irony of creators

The irony of creators celebrating the content they created that is thrown back at them for free is almost laughable, or it would be if it weren’t so tragic.

P.S. Maybe ChatGPT can represent those who need a lawyer when slapped with a lawsuit.

Just sayin’.

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