Using Chat GBT Open-Source AI for Writing Activism – Guide compiled by Deb G.
ChatGPT is an AI-powered chatbot created by OpenAI. It’s designed to have natural conversations with users and assist with a wide range of tasks, like answering questions, providing recommendations, explaining concepts, brainstorming ideas, and so on.
You can use ChatGPT for anything from solving problems, writing help, learning something new, or just having a friendly back-and-forth. Chat GPT is free. You do not need to sign up for it, although the website will encourage you to do so for a more in-depth experience. It is not necessary to do so.
Using Chat GBT will make it so much easier to engage in writing activism. And, importantly, you can use this tool to ramp-up your writing activism by sending many letters or email a week. You can also use it to compose letters to editors (LTEs) or even Op-Ed pieces for news outlets. Here’s how to use Chat GPT:
Instructions:
- Choose an issue you would like to weigh in on.
For example, let’s say you have just read an article on Iowa’s water pollution on the Seirra Club, Iowa Chapter website. You learn that:
- the Iowa Department of Natural Resources(DNR) has an updated list of impaired Iowa waterways that the “2024 draft list has 576 impaired water bodies, with 743 impairments.”
- “Iowa still has not fully implemented the provisions of the Clean Water Act (signed into law more than 40 years ago), and, therefore, is out of compliance.”
- “A number of Iowa communities remain unsewered, resulting in pollution entering Iowa’s water bodies,”
- and that the Iowa DNR needs to, “implement the pollution reduction measures identified in the Total Maximum Daily Load studies.”
- Type ChatGPTinto Google or whatever search engine you use. (https://chatgpt.com/)
- In the box below the words, “What can I help with?” make your request. For example, you might type the following in the box :
Write a letter to Iowa Senator Kevin Alons urging him to take action on fully implementing Iowa’s Clean Water Act. Tell him that I am highly concerned to learn that: Iowa DNR lists 576 impaired waterways in the state, that there continues to be a number of Iowa communities that are unsewered, and that the state has yet to implement the pollution reduction measures identified in the Total Maximum Daily Load studies.
- Then click on the arrow pointing upward in the lower right-hand side of the box. Your letter will be composed in a matter of seconds.
- You may (or may not) then decide to edit the letter by adding or deleting information, elaborating on a particular point you would like to emphasize, and so on.
- You can copy your letter on an email, Word document, or hand write it.
- You can use submission links on the Writing Tool Kiton the Grannies’ website (upper right-hand side of the home page) to make it easier to send your letter. That way, you don’t need to spend needless time looking up addresses yourself!
- ENJOY THE SENSE OF ACCOMPLISHMENT OF GETTING YOUR GRANNY ACTIVIST VOICE OUT THERE OFTEN AND ALL OVER THE PLACE!
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