A few days ago, I saw a reel on Instagram wherein the guy was roasting ChatGPT for doing things we love doing like writing, painting, editing, etc but it cannot do the jobs that make life tougher like cleaning, doing the laundry and dishes.

Hire a house-help, bro! And when ChatGPT does start doing all of that, people will cry about how AI took over their world.

Anyway, sure ChatGPT doesn’t do all that (yet), but using it is in our hands. You don’t have to make it do what you love doing. ChatGPT doesn't work on its own, it works on the prompts you feed it.

Don’t use it for writing if you are a writer, use it for other things.

You can use it for spotting grammatical errors,
you can use it for giving a proper structure to your thoughts,
you can use it to set up your social media and blog,
you can use it to create a writing schedule and have it as your accountability partner,
you can use it to learn how to format a book on your own and self-publish rather than paying a humungous amount to the publishing experts.

The uses are endless, but no, we will let it write for us and then blame it for doing things we love doing.

I never ask ChatGPT to write poetry or quotes because that’s what I LOVE doing. I ask it to create Instagram background for me to post that piece. I ask it to write me some relevant hashtags. I don’t make it do what I love, but I let it handle the hard parts and things that I cannot do.

Here’s how I actually use ChatGPT as a writer (and nope, none of this includes writing my poems for me):

Brainstorming blog ideas: because sometimes my brain goes on strike and refuses to cooperate.
Creating a writing schedule: like having a bossy little assistant who reminds me, “Hey, weren’t you supposed to be writing today?”
Coding my blog: technical things I have no clue about and have to get it done anyway.
Setting up my online shops on blog: without paying more than what I earn to “experts” and without spending hours, figuring things out on Google
Outlining blog posts: perfect when I have a brilliant idea but I just don’t know how to start it.
Designing flatlays and visuals of my books and journals: because aesthetics matter the most on Instagram (and my photography skills do not).
Creating Instagram backgrounds: turning my words into posts that actually look scroll-stopping.
Getting Help Learning new platforms: instead of fighting with their useless FAQs or getting ghosted by support chatbots.
Answering my random queries: I treat it like an upgraded Google that understands my broken, late-night “umm what was that thing called…?” questions.

And seriously, that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

Using ChatGPT smartly is like handing-over tasks to an assistant who never sleeps. The more you use it for the stuff that drains your energy, the more time and creativity you preserve for the things that actually light you up.

I don’t let it steal my passion, I let it handle my problems.

That’s the mindset shift we need. Instead of fearing AI or hating on it for “stealing” creativity, we should be learning how to use it to amplify what we already love doing. If you’re a writer, let ChatGPT handle the tech headaches. If you’re an artist, let it help you with captions, color palettes, or marketing strategy. If you’re an entrepreneur, let it assist you with emails, website tweaks, and customer queries.

AI isn’t here to replace us, it’s here to relieve us. It’s ‘us’ who are mis-using it. You don’t always have to say ‘yes’ to the suggestion it makes at the end of each answer it gives. I don’t even read its suggestions most of the times because I am not a robot. I make it do what I want it to. And making it or not write is in my hands.

At the end of the day, ChatGPT is just a tool. What matters is how we use it. If we keep using it to do the things we are meant to pour our soul into, we’ll eventually feel empty. But if we let it do the grunt work, we’ll finally have the space and energy to pour more of ourselves into our craft.

So next time you feel like blaming AI for “taking over the world,” ask yourself:

is it really AI that’s the problem, or is it how you’re choosing to use it? After all, it all depends on how we program it.

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