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# Can ChatGPT edit fiction? 4 professional editors asked AI to do their job – and it ruined their short story
- URL: https://werd.io/can-chatgpt-edit-fiction-4-professional-editors-asked-ai-to/
- Published: 2024-02-19T14:27:21.000Z
- Updated: 2024-02-19T14:27:21.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: NotableLinks, #Import 2025-06-13 09:20

"We are professional editors, with extensive experience in the Australian book publishing industry, who wanted to know how ChatGPT would perform when compared to a human editor. To find out, we decided to ask it to edit a short story that had already been worked on by human editors – and we compared the results."

No surprise: ChatGPT stinks at this. I've sometimes used it to look at my own work and suggest changes. I'm not about to suggest that any of my writing is particularly literary, but its recommendations have always been generic at best.

Not that anyone in any industry, let alone one whose main product is writing of any sort, would try and use AI to make editing or content suggestions, right? Right?

... Right? [#AI](https://werd.io/tag/AI)

\[[Link](https://theconversation.com/can-chatgpt-edit-fiction-4-professional-editors-asked-ai-to-do-their-job-and-it-ruined-their-short-story-216631)\]