ChatGPT and other AI tools are used all the time to generate text. The high school my fiance works at encourages teachers to utilize ChatGPT in lesson plans, yet students are constantly being forbidden from using AI text generation for assignments. As a student, I understand why. AI isn’t perfect and students need to be expressing what they’ve learned, which we cannot do if we upload an assignment to an AI program.

I decided to try it myself. I prompted ChatGPT to create a blog post for me. I asked it to explain why Trump chose his cabinet picks for his second administration. I was curious as to what kind of reasoning it would provide for some of his more outlandish choices. However, I was extremely disappointed. 

ChatGPT framed it’s response as to what it would assume Trump would pick if he were to be elected again, and the nominees were based on prior cabinet members. But unfortunately, Trump did win and his cabinet picks are worse than we could have imagined. I put ChatGPT’s response into a Google Doc so I could edit it. The introduction and conclusion were very general and didn’t need much fixing other than the tense of some words. However, the bulk of the post required a decent amount of fixing. Aside from changing names and removing the secondary assumptions, some of the picks did not carry the same qualifications as what ChatGPT had suggested. 

Using ChatGPT to generate a post made it painfully obvious that it was AI generated. It took more time and effort to correct the text than it would be to write my own, and less enjoyable. I would have much preferred to talk about the horrible picks such as Elon Musk, Dr. Oz, or Linda McMahon. 

And let this serve as a reminder, to NEVER use AI to complete a school or professional assignment. ChatGPT was so incredibly wrong in it’s generated text that it would make it obviously false to anyone who read it. And even if you did decide to use and edit it, that is way too much work.I still may play around with AI and see what it can do, but my use will remain recreational. I have used ChatGPT in the past to summarize a text, but after this experiment I will not be doing that again.