(Posting early for a placeholder with some of the basic concept(s). Will come back to elaborate and polish up.)

It can certainly be a great tool, but like any great tool, it must be used with discernment. It’s great for editing this site, for example – I haven’t done serious WordPress editing in years, and this new block system took some adapting. ChatGPT makes it ridiculously simple.

It also depends on the quality of the prompt-giving. There’s almost a skill in getting ChatGPT to give you the best rendition of exactly what you desire. Creativity pays in rich responses.

However, for writing, which of course I’m running up against as I begin to publish my thoughts publicly now on my website: You can tell when something isn’t natural, or when something isn’t someones true human voice.

There’s something powerful about deep thought from a human. That’s what ChatGPT is teaching me. Its not just about the facts and figures, its the human sequencing them; imperfectly, probably; but we forget that humans are made in God’s image, and believers are filled with His Holy Spirit.

Of course, ChatGPT can make powerful connections for us that we may not have made ourselves. But it can’t make them human. And something about that connection being made for us, makes it not as powerful of a connection as if it was made by us.

You can’t fake the funk. The wisdom without the weight-lift can be dangerous. Cognitive diminishment.

Part of the blessing of Bible study is not being given the answer, but seeking the answer. What’s really valuable is the growth of that muscle through the struggle. There is a slow maturing that take place inside of us.