No, You Can't Write an Actual Novel With OpenAI's ChatGPT

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March 6, 2023

We’re deeply impressed by AI chatbots like ChatGPT. But the claim that these chatbots can “do anything” is totally overblown. And to illustrate the limitations of AI chatbots, Review Geek‘s Dave McQuilling challenged ChatGPT to do something that should be fairly easy—a whole lot of creative writing.

Can ChatGPT write an entire novel on its own? Well, I won’t spoil it for you here. Check our top story to see all the problems we encountered when writing a novel with ChatGPT.

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