8 activities that Chatgpt can carry out for journalists

Artificial intelligence (IA) cannot replace ijournalists. However, it can remove part of the boring jobs so that you can focus on what you know better: true journalism.

When it comes toartificial intelligencein the editorial office, ijournalistsGenerally they hang for two factions: those who have a little too much confidence in the AI ​​capabilities and those who would never use an automatic learning tool

Chat GPT, an instrument based on artificial intelligence that has been trained to generate responses similar to human ones, is increasingly on everyone's mouth. Some journalistic organizations have used it even to write articles. This, however, really noted itselfA bad idea.

However, this does not mean that Chatgpt cannot be useful to journalists. As long as it is clear to you what it can and what it cannot do, the tool can help you with some humble tasks so that you can focus on the stories that count for your audience.

Limitations

When you work with chatgpt, keep in mind that it is intelligent, but notsointelligent. It is a car that has no intentions (it does not want to help you or mislead you), it does not have the concept of what is real and has no morality. In a nutshell: it generates text on the basis of a lot of information on which it was trained.

For this reason, it is necessary to absolutely verify everything that generates. Chatgpt will almost always answer your question and if you are not available real information, it could invent one. Always check mathematics, names and places and always make sure that everything, well, exists. On the other hand, verification is an action that a journalist should never forget. Regardless of artificial tools.

Here are some intelligent tasks in which Chatgpt can help you.

1. Generation of summaries of large texts and documents

Chatgpt is good enough to summarize long pieces of text. This is useful when it is necessary to quickly scan new relationships, studies and other documents. You can even ask the tool to provide you with the most important points, collect a quote or find information on the author or authors. In practice it is an excellent synthesis tool.

2. Generate questions and answers

Useful when you work on a topic that you don't know or look for new points of view. Chatgpt can help you conduct research on events, individuals and on anything else. As always, it controls several times everything that comes to mind while inventing things that does not know the answer happily. For example, you can ask him to give you the names of experts to be interviewed on a certain topic and generally provides valid suggestions. However, if the topic is too niche, the tool could generate totally fictitious names thatthey look likebe experts, for example, of a certain country.

3. Provide quotes

This is to be verified well. You can ask Chatgpt to look for quotes from a particular individual and it is likely that you find it. However, take extra time to check where the quote comes from as it can be the work of another writer - and this is plagiarism - or it can be invented.

4. Title generation

If you are taking test A/B, test yourself with your titles against artificial intelligence. You can ask him to make the title fun, negative or positive, remove the jargon or transform it into a specific number of words. Too bad that Chatgpt really has difficulty with mathematics: he always matters the words in the final result and ask him to rewrite it if he made a mistake (almost certainly he did it).

5. Translation of articles into different languages

Like any other translation tool based on artificial intelligence it is very approximate and you could do some nice laugh. However, it can be useful if you need to have a general idea of ​​the text in a different language. If you want to get something a little more precise, it is better that you stick to Google Translate.

6. Generation of e-mail objects and e-mail writing

The outsourcing of one of the most boring office activities for a car looks like a dream. Although you will have to change the final version, Chatgpt can accelerate the process of sending e-mails to your sources or colleagues as you can generate a sound message with a quick prompt. Just fill the empty spaces and send. A real saving of time.

7. Generation of social posts

Like e-mails, social publication is useful but takes a long time. You can ask Chatgpt to write a tweet or LinkedIn post on a topic, freeing your time and intellectual skills for more useful writing.

8. Provide a context for articles

As with all the above activities, this can also be inconstant. You can ask Chatgpt to provide you with a context on a news, for example, because the railways are on strike this year and can find quite accurate information. Always check, though. It can also explain how something works, which can be useful if you need to add a brief explanation to your piece, in a simple language.

Even if many people fear that Chatgpt can be used to write articles, fortunately it is not (still) like this. His writing is not human and it is noted. Chatgpt cannot follow a news fact. He is unable to perceive that someone is not saying the truth and is unable to connect with another human being for an interview. The only way to use and (at the moment) chatgpt is in the way we have seen. After all, he is an assistant, not a teacher.