Does it make sense to write articles with ChatGPT?

Hello, I'm going to set up a blog site and I'm thinking of writing an article with ChatGPT. Do you think it makes sense?

 

I think yes, ChatGPT texts are quite readable and unique, but in order to achieve the best results, you need to read and edit.

 

It can save you time.
It can help you improve your writing skills.
It can help you come up with new ideas.
But
Don't forget to use Chat GPT as a tool, not a replacement for your writing skills.

 

If done correctly absolutely.
If done with minimal effort or knowledge no. No article that GPT produces is ready for immediate publishing without some editing (mainly grammar). Passive voice, transition words and sentence structure need to be checked.

 

My site will be mostly interested in articles about city news.

 

Yes, provided that you check their reality and edit them.

 

Writing articles using ChatGPT can be useful for many people in different fields who want to improve their efficiency. With fast and accurate text generation, they can save a significant amount of time, which can be used for other tasks. Yes,yes,and yes.

 

Absolutely. There are many caveats, most of which are already mentioned in this thread I think. The knowledge cutoff date is one, although it can be mitigated with plugins if you're using the official site (but not at large scale, due to the 25 message / 3 hr limit). Another flaw is its tone and style, as user kjh-08 said. It has a real fondness for certain sentence structures, formulaic introductions, and especially formulaic conclusions. Personally, I have a prompt I distilled from articles that I'd already written that I include when I want a specific voice. It is a solid technique. Essentially the same as saying "write me X in the style of <famous person>," except you supply the sample text because it probably hasn't read your stuff in its training data.

The degree to which it is flat wrong varies greatly with your prompt. It typically does not make many mistakes on factual matters if it is clear what the topic at hand is. The exception being math, which is a well-known and well-publicized weakness of LLMs in general.

The other time it will "hallucinate," and I think this accounts for the lion's share of errors, is when you ask it to refer to something that is no longer in its context window. That is, something you already talked about that it has "forgotten." Then it will often make things up from whole cloth, and if you aren't paying attention to your output useless off-topic stuff will creep in. There are solutions to this like using vector embeddings, but none of them can completely overcome it without a lot of finessing. If you are using vanilla ChatGPT, the simplest way is to periodically either restart the conversation with a fresh prompt, or to keep a refresher prompt with the essentials of what you are doing handy and periodically feed it to GPT so that your instructions are always within the context window length (4K tokens for GPT-3.5, 8k for GPT-4).

 

Now I wrote a few articles using chatgpt and had my friends read it, they didn't really understand that it was artificial intelligence, but of course I made some edits.

 

But he was a complete GPT newbie. He didn't understand the nature of LLMs and how they generate text. Or the nature of context windows, which cause the bulk of "hallucinations." With a small amount of human oversight and verification it is much less of an issue than it is made out to be.

 

Unrelated to the topic, but what more do I need to do to become a user with access

I want to open a hosting issue.

 

Yes, writing articles with ChatGPT makes sense, but not so well, especially when there is a need of understanding human behavior and some expert decision making of the field like medical billing or coding, to simplify complex topics and improve understanding.

 

I used to really struggle with grammar (still do, but not as much as I used to), such as knowing where to place commas, semicolons, etc., and I have found ChatGPT to be a fantastic tool to help me with this, as well as proofreading my writing. However, I would always check the result because sometimes it will replace some words that make your writing look like it has been written by a script or bot.

I certainly wouldn't let it write entire blog posts. I did try that a few times, and although the article came up as original (passed Copyscape), it was flagged as blatantly coming from ChatGPT by copyleaks.com.

 

Use a plagiarism checker like quillbot when editing so that search engines won't be able to penalize you in the future