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 I’ve been playing with this too. I just finished reading The Story Of Civilization, Book 1, Our Orirntal Heritage by Will Durant. 

I had a thought worth sharing as I recalled threads about the roles of religion throughout the book, what lead to christianity, and one credit to religion worth quoting at the end of his book. I ‘read’ it on audible, so it would have been impossible to dig back and reference many of the points where I wanted to weave an idea together. 

So I had ChatGPT_4o do the heavy lifting for reference while I guided its summary perspective, added the quote and read through it as an editor to make sure it’s what I wanted it to say and conveyed the point I was pondering. 

I was happy with the end result and it saved me an hour and a half easily. At the end, I consider the work mine. I used AI as a tool, to do my work faster and effectively, but by my view the product was of me, not of the AI. 

Here’s the post…

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