GPT and the Economics of Cognitively Costly Writing Tasks
Produced by GPT-4 (r) and Scott Cunningham (r) with prompts by Scott Cunningham
In this Substack, we examine the relationship between GPT-4 and human prompts, with a focus on the role of prompting in costly forms of creative writing. The substack was produced jointly by GPT-4 and Scott Cunningham using prompts (and “revision prompts”) by Scott Cunningham, an economist and professor at Baylor University. At the end, we will reveal the prompts used to produce the substack. Some minimal edits were used, but they were kept to a minimum. 1
Also, we will keep track of time inputs and total output measured in minutes of time spent on the substack “prompting” and final output measured in words. GPT-4 has a cap of 25 prompts per 3 hours, so we were unable to complete the substack in one sitting. We started this on Saturday March 18th at around 6:15am and reached the 25 prompt limit at 7:15am, four paragraphs into our discussion of Goldin and Katz. That was 1,693 words and 7 pages double spaced with several lines of mathematical equations using LaTeX (that we produced w…
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