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AI in Technical Communication & Writing

Remember to treat your AI as an intern. It is great at the boring, simple, formulaic tasks that are more time-consuming than anything.

But you wouldn’t trust your intern with the final product with YOUR name unless you have carefully reviewed the work.

Instead, let the intern help you brainstorm, outline, get general examples, and even draft portions of the initial content. But you are responsible for that final product you turn in, so revise the work to reflect YOU, not the endless sea of data and statistically viable output it gave you.

Of course, you can try out ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and all the others on the market.

Just remember that any “free account” will likely use your materials and prompts to train their systems. Typically, the “pro” and paid subscriptions are given more protections with limited use of your data, which is what you are paying for among additional features. Always read the Terms of Service to understand how anything you say, upload, and generate will be stored, used, and possibly shared by the company.

The number of AI tools grows every day. Below are a few more groups of more academic and technical communication focused sites. Once you find a source using any AI tool, especially with the research focused tools below, search for it using the Library Databases for reading access.

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