2024-07-08 - Online Community of Writers

A USC study finds that (some people think) AI is as funny as the average person.

A new study out of USC compared comedy writing by humans to comedy writing generated by ChatGPT, and found that “ChatGPT can produce written humor at a quality that exceeds laypeople’s abilities and equals some professional comedy writers.” But their experiments didn’t fully convince me that your next favorite joke will be generated by a […]

Finding the Glow Within: What Biology and Fiction Writing Have In Common

Biology is the study of life—of finding unusual beauty in the ordinary. So, too, is writing. Why do we find glowing lights pretty? From natural occurrences like fireflies and bioluminescent ocean waves, to manmade ones like holiday lights and sprawling evening cityscapes, there is an allure in all the sparkle, glitter, glow. The pull is […]