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It depends what we do with it. Here are one author’s thoughts:

What would you like AI to do for you?

Have you ever wanted to make your writing more interesting? There are a lot of words out there you can use instead of the ones you usually do: synonyms. Try using a thesaurus, like this one. If you check out a thesaurus, look at all the words you can use instead of “said.”

Question: Have you ever known someone who uses lots of big words? Do you think people who often use big words instead of small ones really know the differences between the many synonyms they use?

Are you a philologist, someone who loves words? If so, did you know words have a history? For instance, did you know the word lunatic comes from the word luna, meaning moon. We can picture the person changing into a werewolf on the full moon.

To check out the history of some of your favorite words, explore an online dictionary of etymology!

Ever wonder how poets are able to come up with just the right rhyme, such as pop stars do. It’s probably not that they are brilliant, but more likely they have a rhyming dictionary, such as this online one

Here is a poem I quickly came up with using that online rhyming dictionary:

LUCKY ME

Such a vision was He, when I looked upon God,

Though some thought him flawed, and others a fraud.

I too saw his Son, who died that I might be free.

Some disagreed if he was one, or should be considered to be three.

There seem just as many gods, as there are folk.

Thank God I was born into the right faith, so my beliefs aren’t a joke.

ACTIVITY:

Use a rhyming dictionary to more easily come up with your own poem!

No, this was an idea made up long after our oldest writings about Jesus of Paul and Mark:

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♬ original sound – Dan McClellan