Interesting question posed to me yesterday

mrb999 

I love this question! Speaking personally, I also love the creative process of writing and designing. I like the ownership and satisfaction I get from creating something from scratch.

But for me, AI has become an important co-creator and brainstorming partner in my process that helps creativity rather than replaces my voice or does the work for me. I use Copilot to co-create in the following ways:

Breaking through writer's block: Starting from a blank page can be hard. I often use Copilot to help formulate a starting point. For example, I can prompt, "I need to write about the importance of XYZ, what are some key points that I should cover? What are the challenges that people face in this area?"

Getting feedback on early drafts or approaches: When I'm starting something, I can ask Copilot for early considerations. A prompt might be: "Here's a statement on XYZ topic. What are some other points of view I should consider? What are some questions I should cover?"

Editing and refining: As someone once said, "Brevity is the soul of wit". I can take a large braindump of ideas and thoughts and then ask Copilot "Can you please write a summary of this?" It helps me summarize and organize my own writing so that I can move to a second draft.

Time savings: A critical value of Copilot for me is productivity - I free up time from daily things like emails, meeting summaries, and more - so that I have more time for creating.


I also use Copilot to react to what it gets *wrong*. If I ask it to write a summary of content at an early draft, and I feel like it has missed my core message - it's a chance to me to revisit what I've created and see why it pulled something else. Was I not clear? Did I unintentionally overrepresent something secondary? Do I need to build out my thesis more explicitly?

You might be interested in some of the processes that Beth_Kanter  posted on LinkedIn as a behind-the-scenes look at co-creating a recent webinar with AI https://www.linkedin.com/posts/bethkanter_recap-nonprofits-ai-a-conversation-with-activity-7156343716708851712-Ew1z?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop