I Am Editing Books Using Chat-GPT Builder, And Here Is What I’ve Learned

Since Sam’s AI hit the streets, most of us in any line of business (or walk of life) have been asking ourselves one question: “How can AI save me _____?” Fill in the blank: money, time, resources, or just full stop, can AI save me (vs. kill me)?

Well, I am not one to trust others’ answers, and as a hands-on kinda sorta retired technologist, I had to see for myself using my latest project of editing two books on my to-do list as a test case.

I learned from editing IBM tech manuals for 10 years, without a break, that you have to have a game plan, as well as a bail-out plan when editing other’s words.

So my game plan for editing my pal’s two manuscripts is: let’s not read them at all! Why not use Sam’s Wizbang new techBro-toy to do all the heavy lifting, after all, we are talking about hundreds of typed pages, double-sided, and in a 9pt or less Times New Roman. I can’t even see the print on the pages let alone edit the tiny words. So I needed help. I planned to 1) use Chat-GPT Builder to make a Chat assistant that could do my job for me on this project, including all the editing tasks normal and consistent, and 2) understand just what AI is capable of handling in this…