“What used to take me around a half-hour to write now takes one minute.” “It’s enormous fun.” The public release of ChatGPT last fall kicked off a wave of interest in artificial intelligence. A.I.

Ms. O’Rourke is the executive editor of The Yale Review and a professor of creative writing at Yale University. July 18, 2025 When I first told ChatGPT who I was, it sent a gushing reply: “Oh wow — it ...