ChatGPT is the latest buzzworthy Artificial Intelligence tool. Released just this month by OpenAI, ChatGPT has stirred up a considerable amount of conversation, much of it about experiments people have conducted, while others now seriously question how much longer writers will be employable. In this short midweek episode, Neville and Shel look at ChatGPT from the communicator’s perspective.

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The next monthly, long-form episode of FIR will drop on Monday, December 26.

We host a Communicators Zoom Chat each Thursday at 1 p.m. ET. For credentials needed to participate, contact Shel or Neville directly, request the credentials in our Facebook group, or email fircomments@gmail.com.

Special thanks to Jay Moonah for the opening and closing music.

You can find the stories from which Shel’s FIR content is selected at Shel’s Link Blog. Shel has started a metaverse-focused Flipboard magazine. Neville’s “asides” blog, Outbox, is also available.

Links from this report:

• The Brilliance and Weirdness of ChatGPT (New York Times)
• I asked ChatGPT to write about itself in my style, so I didn’t have to
• Stephen Waddington on LinkedIn: ChatGPT on Public Relations Excellence
• I couldn’t resist asking ChatGPT how to play cricket. Now I get it!
• Explaining NFTs with ChatGPT

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