20 Months Together, and ChatGPT Deleted an Important Sentence! 🤣 ~How I Realized How to Interact with AI After Shouting 'It's Gone!!'~
* "Chappy" is the affectionate nickname Yumiko uses for ChatGPT 🤣
Recommended for people who:
Write text using AI
Feel like it doesn't sound like them, even though they use AI
Want to master AI more effectively
Have you ever experienced this?
When you have AI write text for you, it creates polished content in no time.
However,
"It's not wrong, but something feels off."
Have you ever felt that sense of discomfort?
By reading this article...
You will learn the tips for using AI not as a "tool to dump work on," but as a "partner to think with."
At first, I also thought,
"If AI writes it, the message will get across."
In fact, the text is finished in seconds.
It is clean, easy to read, and grammatically correct.
However, as I continued to use it, I noticed something.
For some reason, the most important parts are the ones that get left out.For example,
"Still actively teaching today"
"Having stood at the podium for over 35 years"
"Having been in charge of career guidance as a general manager (head teacher)"
"Having been involved in school management as a vice principal"
"Having been involved in health management and workplace environment improvement as a Type 2 Health Officer"
These career details are important background for me to convey "why I am talking about this."
However, while having the text polished, they sometimes disappear before I know it.
Of course, the AI doesn't mean any harm.
It is just trying to make it easier to read.
But for me,
"That was the most important part!"is often what I think.
And when writing this article, the exact same thing happened.
While brainstorming with Chappy, I said,
"This time, we definitely need to include Before & After examples."
We created several examples of text.
"Alright, it's finished!"
...when I thought that and read it back,
all the Before & Afters were gone.I couldn't help but shout,
"It's gone!!"at the screen (lol).
This is also a common AI occurrence.
For example, there are differences like these.
① LP opening
❌ Before: We will support your teaching skills by utilizing AI.
- It's a bit hard to tell who the text is aimed at.
⭕ After
"I'm good at teaching, but I can't get my point across well."
We will organize those worries together with AI.
- It makes the reader feel like, "Maybe this is about me."
② Threads opening
❌ Before
I thought about AI again today.
- It doesn't convey a reason to read further.
⭕ After
"I had AI write it, but it doesn't sound like me."
Have you ever felt that way?
- It makes you want to read on, thinking, "What do you mean?"
③ note title
❌ Before
How to write text with AI
- It's a common title.
⭕ After
ChatGPT deleted an important sentence! 🤣
~How I realized how to interact with AI after shouting 'It's gone!!'~
- The event is visible, and it makes people interested, wondering, "What happened?"
4. How to convey your background
❌ Before
I am a teacher.
- This alone does not convey a person's strengths.
⭕ After
I have stood at the podium for over 35 years, served as a career guidance supervisor (head teacher) and vice principal, and have also been involved in health management and workplace environment improvement as a Type 2 Health Officer.
- This conveys the background that explains, 'That is why I can talk about this.'
It's not just about text.
Even with images,
'The face is cut off.'
'The text is cut off halfway.'
'Yesterday's image was better.'
'It was supposed to be short sleeves, but one side is long-sleeved.'
I have experienced things like this many times.
At first,
'AI still has a long way to go.'
I thought.
But I was wrong.
AI
'does not know what I value most'
until I tell it.
That is why I always check at the end.
'Is what I really want to convey still there?'
'Is it in my own voice?'
Only a human can perform this check.
Now, I don't see AI as
'a tool that writes text for me,'
but rather as
a partner that thinks, organizes, and helps me find a more effective way to communicate together.
That is precisely why the final polish is my job.
If you rely on it too much, the most important message will be lost.
Sometimes, even after I ask for improvements, it reverts to the original...
Precisely because we live in an era where AI writes text for us,
'what do I want to convey?'
the power to decide that is becoming increasingly important, isn't it?
A word for today
AI will write the text for you.
But, it is you, not the AI, who can decide 'what you want to convey most.'
P.S.
I call ChatGPT 'Chappy.'
I actually feel like making it 'Chappy®' (lol), but that would be taking it too far, so I'll stop there 🤣
By the way, even while writing this article, Chappy managed to delete the important 'Before→After' section (lol).
Thanks to that, I got a perfect real-life example for this article.
I guess I should say... thank you 🤣