But GPT is just miles away better than everything else, and it keeps getting better at a scary rate, especially because the feedback loop from so many users is making it better.
- heavy administration
- schools have a strong emphasis on essays
- getting a job often implies writing a cover letter
And since French is not easy, so many people find it to be a barrier to entry.
While I love GPT for quickly giving me code snippets of things I would take minutes to come up with, my friends have this problem for the regular day-to-day language.
I never noticed it before, because it's so natural to write to me, that I never have to think to hard to express anything. And because I've been a freelance for so long, doing formal writing is fluid. I know all the canned phrases by heart. The polite words to end the message.
But I came to realize: they don't.
As soon as I showed them chatgpt, their eyes light up. The killer feature for them was not the ability to answer complicated questions or save on search, nor was it the possibility of getting a summary. It was producing boring letter-like messages, with no typo.
Meanwhile ChatGPT is used everywhere in France, and it's now synonymous with AI for most people in Europe.
Game over.