People like free.  People (are starting to) like AI.  Why not combine the two?

Several of the most popular AI tools are available now for free.  

I know, I know, it seems backwards.  It doesn’t have to be though and it can help you get past writer’s block, idea block, or whatever block is holding up your progress.

You can give a small amount of context and ask the AI tool to ask you questions about it to gather...

A few posts ago I talked about a simple 4-step prompt framework to get you started.  If that isn’t getting you the results that you are looking for, here is a framework to create prompts with more context.  

A writing style determines the sentence structure, word choices, and how ideas are expressed.  

There are many options.  Like anything else with ChatGPT, it will guess what you want if there are options and you don’t specify one.

Machines are, well, machines.  As machines, they don’t have feelings.  If you don’t specify the underlying emotions that you want in your output (text, image, etc.) ChatGPT will guess. It probably won’t guess correctly.

Continuing the conversation from the last post, ChatGPT has  plenty of output options for the more technical users.

Most people don’t realize that they are not limited to “plain text” output from text-based AI tools like ChatGPT.

Here is a line directly from OpenAI’s documentation about ChatGPT:“ChatGPT sometimes writes plausible sounding but incorrect or nonsensical answers…”

If you are an artist, graphic designer, or someone else who needs a unique creative piece of work, you can use AI tools to generate initial ideas or even images.

If you have a long online document or PDF, you can use an AI tool like ChatGPT to review the entire piece and give you a summary.  This can be useful with large or complex documents.