AI Writing’s Future: Better With Trump?

Writer Gary Grossman concludes the new Trump presidency could spell good times ahead for AI writing and related AI apps.

Observes Grossman: “Without a single debate question or major campaign promise about AI, voters inadvertently tipped the scales in favor of accelerationists — those who advocate for rapid AI development with minimal regulatory hurdles.”

Adds Grossman: Trump’s “party platform has little to say about AI.

“However, it does emphasize a policy approach focused on repealing AI regulations.”

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*Give ChatGPT a Standardized Personality – Including One that Edits: ChatGPT has come out with a new feature that enables you to create a standardized personality for the AI.

Essentially, you can now program ChatGPT to assume the personality and skills of a witty copy editor with deep knowledge of AI and a penchant for detail, for example — and rest assured that ChatGPT will assume that personality each time you log-on.

Before the new feature, users already had the ability to create the same personality for ChatGPT – but the prompt for the personality needed to be loaded into ChatGPT’s message box before each use.

*Google Using a Competitor to Improve Its AI Writer/Chatbot: In an ironic twist, Google is using competitor Anthropic Claude to help improve its own AI chatbot.

Dubbed Google Gemini, the tech titan’s answer to ChatGPT is often used by communicators for AI writing, research and related tasks.

Writer Charles Rollet says Google contractors are using chat responses offered by Anthropic Claude as a benchmark for Gemini to match – or beat.

*ChatGPT Rolls-Out Its Version of ‘Agents Lite:’ ChatGPT has a new feature that enables users to create basic, AI agents.

Dubbed ‘Scheduled Tasks,’ writers will be able to use the AI to create simple agents, for example, that can perform one or more research tasks for them on a daily basis – or simply deliver customized news on a daily basis.

Scheduled Tasks are already supported in ChatGPT Web, iOS, Android and MacOS.

And they’re promised to appear in the Windows desktop app later in Q1.

Meanwhile, OpenAI is also working on a still-in-development module promising the ability to create much more powerful agents, dubbed ‘Operator.’

*Microsoft Unveils ‘Pay-As-You-Go’ Agents: In a move destined to appeal to the frugal, Microsoft now allows Copilot 365 users to develop autonomous agents on a pay-as-you-go basis.

Observes writer Sabrina Ortiz: “The costs are determined by the sum of messages used by your organization, with message usage varying depending on the agent’s complexity — and use of specific features, according to Microsoft.

“IT admins stay in control, with the ability to create organization-wide agents and manage agent deployment.”

*More Desktop Apps Now Work With ChatGPT: Writers and others who are using the ChatGPT desktop app on their Windows or Mac computers are finding that the chatbot is easier to integrate with more applications.

ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode, for example, can now work with many more apps on the desktop, including Apple Notes and Quip.

Kevin Weil, chief product officer, OpenAI, indicates making app integration easier is part of an overall plan to make it virtually effortless later this year to enable ChatGPT to work with those apps as an autonomous agent.

*Microsoft’s Copilot to Feature More AI Engines in 2025: Writer Supreeth Koundinya reports that users of Microsoft Copilot will be able to power the app with competitors to ChatGPT this year.

Observes Koundinya: “This move stems from an attempt to reduce costs and diversify the underlying AI models. The company is also working on integrating its own models into 365 Copilot.”

As always, the more AI engines competing in the AI space, the better – cost-wise and performance-wise – for writers and others.

*2025: The Year of AI Agents: Add Time Magazine to the chorus of prognosticators predicting that AI agents – autonomous AI programs that will perform increasingly complex tasks for you – will become a thing this year.

Observes lead writer Tharin Pillay: “In October, Anthropic gave its AI model Claude the ability to use computers—clicking, scrolling and typing—but this may be just the start.

“Agents will be able to handle complex tasks like scheduling appointments and writing software, experts say.”

*Worth a Gander: 300+ Real-World Use Cases for AI: Writers and others still not convinced that AI is poised to remake the world may want to take a gander at this new report from Google.

It details 321 different applications of AI that are already in use by some of the world’s top businesses – with an emphasis on AI agent implementations.

Observes Brian Hall, vice president, product marketing, Google Cloud “In our work with customers, we see their teams are increasingly focused on improving productivity, automating processes and modernizing the customer experience.

“These aims are now being achieved through the AI agents they’re developing in six key areas: customer service, employee empowerment, code creation, data analysis, cybersecurity and creative ideation and production.”

*AI Big Picture: Study on AI Use by Businesses May Overlook Writing Apps: A new report from Vellum – a provider of AI app builder services – finds that 25% of small-to-large businesses have implemented AI.

But that percentage may be on the low side.

The reason: Vellum surveyed 1,250+ AI developers and builders – people who build AI systems from the ground-up — to formulate its estimate.

Missing from its survey, for example, may be all those other businesses that have simply integrated turn-key, cloud AI – such as ChatGPT, Anthropic Claude and Google Gemini — into their operations.

Such AI — and similar — can be ‘implemented’ with a simple, monthly subscription.

Observes writer Taryn Plumb regarding Vellum’s take: “This seems to indicate that many enterprises have not yet identified viable use cases for AI, keeping them — at least for now — in a pre-build holding pattern.”

Perhaps.

But it’s tough to imagine that most businesses – small or large — have not at least considered that AI like ChatGPT can be onboarded in a few days.

Essentially: It’s fairly easy for a business owner with 50 employees, for example, to imagine giving each employee a $20/month subscription to ChatGPT.

And it’s fairly easy to imagine that every one of those employees will be able to auto-write every email they send at the level of a world-class writer – with simply a few weeks of light training.

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–Joe Dysart is editor of RobotWritersAI.com and a tech journalist with 20+ years experience. His work has appeared in 150+ publications, including The New York Times and the Financial Times of London.

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