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Why use ChatGPT as a guest editor?

To show the power of AI and its capabilities. It can write university papers, CVs, essays, LinkedIn copy, TV scripts and so on. It's been banned by some institutions overseas and by many academic institutions around the world. Some have welcomed it as a progressive learning tool. A concern is the threat to schooling in terms of its writing projects. It can sound age appropriate, forfor journalists. Wherever journalism involves gathering primary sources, I don't see ChatGPT over-riding that. But you never know. If you prompt it with facts and feed it correct info telling it to use that, it can churn out a nicely written article. Although I haven't been able to get it to give information that is non-biased, which is critical. It relies totally on human input to learn. You never know though … Elon Musk is dead-set on making TruthGPT as a rival.

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