Dr Leon Furze

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Artificial Intelligence Has Changed The Way I Write Forever

Synopsis
In this post, I run through the end-to-end workflow that now underpins almost all of my writing. I show how analogue note-taking (pocket notebooks, fountain pens) and spoken drafting (iPhone Voice Memos → Otter/Whisper transcription) feed into successive passes through Claude for clean-up, ChatGPT o3 for link-insertion and live research, and finally a quick HTML export for one-paste publishing in WordPress. Along the way I weigh the productivity gains against the environmental, ethical and creative trade-offs of large language models, explain why I now use image generators far less often, and argue that teachers must rethink “writing” as a multimodal practice rather than a solo keyboard activity.

Originally published at: https://leonfurze.com/2025/05/17/artificial-intelligence-has-changed-the-way-i-write-forever/

Links
https://leonfurze.com/2024/06/24/multimodal-discourse-and-generative-ai/
https://leonfurze.com/2024/02/21/the-myth-of-the-ai-first-draft/
https://leonfurze.com/2024/09/04/flattening-the-strata-of-digital-texts-with-generative-artificial-intelligence/
https://leonfurze.com/2025/02/15/hands-on-with-deep-research/
https://www.wired.com/story/substacks-writers-use-ai-chatgpt/
https://leonfurze.com/deepfake-game/

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6 responses to “Artificial Intelligence Has Changed The Way I Write Forever”

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