# Can ChatGPT edit fiction? 4 professional editors asked AI to do their job…

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**Tags:** editing, ai, publishing
**Created:** [February 19, 2024, 4:53pm UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/can-chatgpt-edit-fiction-4-professional-editors-asked-ai-to-do-their-job/5998 "2024-02-19T16:53:44Z")
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### Author: ![madrush](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/infiniteconversations/user_avatar/www.infiniteconversations.com/madrush/32/6452_2.png) [@madrush](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/u/madrush)
#### Post date: [February 19, 2024, 4:53pm UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/can-chatgpt-edit-fiction-4-professional-editors-asked-ai-to-do-their-job/5998/1 "2024-02-19T16:53:44Z")

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[@metapsy-editors](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/groups/metapsy-editors) & [@ub-editors](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/groups/ub-editors): Sounds like we’re not out of a job… yet 😅

> **[Can ChatGPT edit fiction? 4 professional editors asked AI to do their job –...](https://theconversation.com/can-chatgpt-edit-fiction-4-professional-editors-asked-ai-to-do-their-job-and-it-ruined-their-short-story-216631)**
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> Technically, ChatGPT can do (some of) the work of a human editor. But an experiment comparing three separate human edits of a literary short story to edits by ChatGPT exposes AI’s serious limitations.