Harnessing AI to Boost Creativity And Beat Mental Blocks [Video]

You’re reading the very first words of this article, often the most difficult to write for writer’s and artists throughout history.

Franz Kafka notably struggled with writer’s block, describing his inability to make any progress as: “Complete standstill. Unending torments.”

People have also thrown about different remedies for the torments. Everything from freewriting to taking a break to engage in other activities can help. 

In the last couple of years we’ve seen another type of tool develop, one that stands to make writer’s block a thing of the past for all who are ready to work with it—generative artificial intelligence. 

The dramatic rise of large language models and generative AI in the last few years has sent shockwaves through many industries, particularly in knowledge work and the arts. 

ChatGPT is the most well-known AI tool of the day. It can answer questions, summarise documents, compose articles, and anything else that generally takes place with text. 

Image generators such as Midjourney do something similar but in …