Chat GPT

[DexterMorgansmum]

I am writing a short story and thinking of submitting to a few comps this year for the first time - I ran the first two parts past Chat GPT using Chat GPT as a beta reader - then wondered if that was wise. Is it technically breaking rules to use AI as a beta reader to give feedback , I mainly wanted grammar and syntax corrections where needed - however, it of course, said there was too much abstraction too early on yada yada - good suggestions I suppose.

Also, will it share my story basically or keep it private ? sorry silly basic questions I know ...AI still spins my head ! Grappling to see where I can and cannot use it......sensibly and productively and within submission rules ofc

Your experiences and thoughts? pls share?

Is what you did against the rules or not?

I wouldn't be using AI for something so important while knowing nothing about it.

I agree, if you’re not experienced with it and how it behaves, don’t use it for anything that matters to you. It especially can’t be a beta reader of any real value because it’s not a reader or a person so it can’t relate to anything you’ve written.

And yes, anything you’re putting into it will become training data for it.

Perhaps find a course on AI and learn to use it as a tool to support you rather than something that might influence you. As someone who likely has dyslexia I find it incredibly useful and I have seen it being incredibly useful for someone I know who has dyslexia. Your fear is that it will change your voice, so you need to learn how to use it so it doesn't.

Also, I think there are better AI tools to aid writing.

I use AI at work and honestly it's not great. As I said handy for spelling, punctuation and grammar so a bit like a supercharged spell check but the style of writing it produces if I ask it to write something from scratch is cumbersome.

Thanks folks

Not going to use it for the writing competitions I am planning to enter this year as, yes, tried yesterday using it for beta reading and grammar checks, but I feel like it is on some level giving ideas feedback as well which would be I guess against the rules, and also I like my own ideas better :-) and yes pointed noted, on it will probably use it 'subconsciously' (?) as training data even if it says it wont share it

I am chatting with it for its thoughts on some literary novels I am reading atm to prep for my writing (Booker prize winners over the years) and 'it's' (?) opinions are good

It's not about consciously or subconsciously, with Chatgpt they use your data to train the models. Unless you expressly toggle this off in settings. But even if you have this switched off, they still save your data for X amount of time.

Even temp chats are stored for 30 days.

@DexterMorgansmum if you draft the prompt to be very specific and tell it what not to do then you could use it as a tool. You could use AI to help you draft the prompt. Be very explicit about what it should not do e.g. do not give feedback or offer ideas.

Not only that. I have noticed with co-pilot (windows AI) that it picks up my folders when I open them.

It doesn't have opinions, it just regurgitates what other (anonymous in AI) have said.