At first, I struggled to understand why anyone would want to write this way. My dialogue with ChatGPT was frustratingly meandering, as though I were excavating an essay instead of crafting one. But, when I thought about the psychological experience of writing, I began to see the value of the tool. ChatGPT was not generating professional prose all at once, but it was providing starting points: interesting research ideas to explore; mediocre paragraphs that might, with sufficient editing, become usable. For all its inefficiencies, this indirect approach did feel easier than staring at a blank page; “talking” to the chatbot about the article was more fun than toiling in quiet isolation. In the long run, I wasn’t saving time: I still needed to look up facts and write sentences in my own voice. But my exchanges seemed to reduce the maximum mental effort demanded of me.

-- Cal Newport

起初，我很难理解为何有人会选择这种方式写作。与ChatGPT的对话总是漫无边际，仿佛是在挖掘一篇文章，而非创作。但当我思考写作的心理体验时，开始意识到这个工具的价值。ChatGPT并非一次性生成专业文章，而是提供了起点：有趣的研究思路可以探索；经过充分编辑的平庸段落可能会变得实用。尽管效率不高，这种间接的方法确实比盯着空白页要轻松；与聊天机器人“交流”关于文章比在寂静中埋头苦干更有趣。从长远来看，我并没有节省时间：我仍需查找事实并用自己的声音写作。但这些交流似乎降低了对我心理努力的最大需求。