its no fad. I use to spend an hour going over an email to management. make it less technical, make it sound nicer / polite, etc. now I can take a sentence and say 'make this more succinct. ok, but take that and make it more polite, great thanks'.

I even used it for project proposals. 'write me a 1 page document for this idea'. and then I just use the scaffolding from there. its a huge time saver.

also you are notn seeing the bigger picture. "I like how it can generate songs and poems based on a prompt. Its not particularly useful, but it is entertaining. " do you realize how this is going to make writing (books, songs, tv shows, movies) so much easier?

I had a dream, all I did was give chatgpt the basics of the dream and I said make this into a short story. the results weren't bad, its definitely something one can work with. I think content creation on platforms is about to explode.