Last week, we had a guest in class, Connor Grieb, who is the founder of SEO Vineyard. His company is a Pittsburgh-based SEO business that helps customers \u201cwith all your digital marketing needs!\u201d As he was walking us through SEO Vineyard, how it works, and how they advertise, he brought up their blog and mentioned that he uses ChatGPT for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We all know what ChatGPT is. It\u2019s the latest in AI technology and has been found to generate a wide variety of smart text responses to user input. If you type in, \u201cMake a lesson plan on economics,\u201d it will do just that. And if you say, \u201cCreate code for an HTML restaurant website,\u201d you will get said code. ChatGPT has its limits, but it is massively useful to any user and can give more curated answers to search queries. It\u2019s essentially a personal search engine for whatever you need. Since it\u2019s so powerful, this can be used for innocent or malicious purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 During class, it was brought up that Connor has used ChatGPT to come up with blog post topics, which I think is completely fine. Generating topics for content is difficult and sometimes you just need a more creative mind (or in this case, a more creative AI). Then, he said that he used the program to actually generate the posts with sources to get content out quicker. I imagine the team would take the generated content and then edit it to be more original, but I was concerned when I heard that a known company was using AI-generated content that is passed off as their own. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s right to use AI-generated content, whether that\u2019s artwork, music, or text content, and then edit it a little bit and claim it\u2019s original. With the development of this new technology, the lines between what is original and what isn\u2019t are more blurred and we\u2019re already seeing this in the digital art space. It\u2019s not yours if it came from an AI. If you\u2019re using AI to create content, then there should be a note that says it was AI-assisted, so users know that it wasn\u2019t fully original.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Overall, ChatGPT and other online programs like it are great tools for coming up with a starting point for any project, but if you\u2019re going past the beginning stage, you might want to reevaluate the ethics behind it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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