GPT-4 is scary…

I use it to help proofread my upcoming book “Bitcoin Nation” and it's uncannily good. In fact, it's at least on par with all the humans I have worked on text with thus far.

Of course, it still has some quirks. E.g., it forgets after a few thousand characters what we are doing, so with every new section I feed it, I need to remind it, “Please continue to proofread”.

But besides that, it does it and unlike humans, it sticks exactly to the level of rewriting and correction that I tell it to use.

The scary bit?

Occasionally, GPT decides to continue the segments I give it, especially if I end a chapter with a rhetorical question, which is a bad habit of mine.

And TBH, sometimes I need to check my own text to see whether I have written this bit or not.

GPT-4 is so good at mimicking my style that it can impersonate me, even to myself.