Mediocre or Magnificent? What You Need to Know About ChatGPT

Bridging the Divide Between Human and AI

Can an AI really help you create compelling content? In this episode, host Alastair McDermott explores the possibilities of using ChatGPT for content creation with guest Frank Prendergast.

Is the thought of an AI assisting with your writing exciting or terrifying? Alastair McDermott and Frank dive deep into:

  • The risks of ChatGPT “hallucinations” making up facts
  • How to avoid AI outputting bland, generic content
  • Prompting techniques to get creative, human-quality output
  • Valuable use cases where ChatGPT shines
  • Potential limitations and downsides to be aware of

You’ll walk away understanding when and how to leverage this cutting-edge technology to uplevel your authority content.

Key Insights:

  • ChatGPT can “hallucinate” and make up false information, so outputs need fact-checking
  • Shorter text inputs reduce hallucination risk compared to longer prompts
  • Specifying desired writing style (e.g. conversational) improves output quality
  • ChatGPT excels at tasks like summarizing, rewriting, generating ideas
  • Its capabilities will improve exponentially over time

Strategies:

  • Use your own content as input to ensure accuracy
  • Provide very specific, detailed prompts for best results
  • Take an iterative approach, tweaking prompts until output is satisfactory
  • Ask ChatGPT to analyze writing samples to model desired style

Tune in to learn how you can start implementing ChatGPT as your own “LSD loving junior copywriter” today!

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Written by Alastair McDermott

I help leadership teams adopt AI the right way: people first, numbers second. I move you beyond the hype, designing and deploying practical systems that automate busywork - the dull bits - so humans can focus on the high-value work only they can do.

The result is measurable capacity: cutting processing times by 92% and unlocking €55,000 per month in extra productivity.

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