Ghostwriting borrowed your words, AI is borrowing the thought before it forms.

A "ghost thought" arrives dressed as your own, with nothing lost to remember.

Skipping the clumsy first draft of a thought costs more than we realize.

Ghostwriting has always had a clear division of labor. Someone else does the writing. You supply the thinking and the life it's drawn from. The words are borrowed. The mind behind them is not.

Emergence of "Ghost Thought"

But today, I've been noticing something like the reverse. Call it a ghost thought. It's a thought you never quite had, that arrives already dressed in your own words. The thinking gets farmed out. The writing, oddly, is almost never the problem, as it shows up with the validation and approval of technology's new step in innovation and convenience. What's missing isn't the........

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