Introduction and basics

0:00 today I am giving you a full course on how to use chat gbt in 2024 for writing we'll cover some of the basics before diving into more intermediate and Advanced Techniques this is literally everything that I know about chat GPT for writing in one single video here is a brief look at everything that we're going to be covering in this video as you can see we're going to be going through a lot but there will be time stamps so you can easily Jump Ahead to the section that you want to cover specifically and then in the future if you want to read visit this video to cover a different section you can absolutely do that my name is Jason I am the author of 14 books and Counting I write literally every day and AI has become a major part of my writing process for me a lot of people don't understand that AI doesn't mean you just push a button and out pops a article or a essay or a book it's much more of a collaborative process that makes AI more of a productivity tool to sort of enhance you as the author rather than a replacement for that writing in addition to being the author of 14 books so far I worked for a company called Kindle

1:06 preneur for three years Kindle perur is one of the largest websites about helping authors write books and then self-publish and Market them so I spent that time helping a lot of authors learn how to write their books and literally teaching people how to do this sort of thing that we're going to be talking about and since then I am now full-time on this YouTube channel the nerdy novelist helping authors utilize tools like Ai and other product itivity enhancing tools into their writing and it is currently the largest YouTube channel for AI writing in particular we cover a lot of things not just the utilization of the tool but what actually makes good writing so with that in mind let's go ahead and talk about chat gbt chat gbt is the OG AI writing tool it is the tool that basically put AI on the map for a lot of different people it launched in November of 2022

1:55 and basically exploded to millions of users within a few weeks and kick off the AI craze I guess you could call it that has happened since then and while there are other tools that have equaled or even in some cases surpassed the capabilities of chat GPT I'll have more to say about that at the end of this video I have no doubt that future iterations of chat GPT for instance when we get the mythical GPT 5 that we are all going to be blown away from that as we were with the original chat GPT in 2022 but as I'm recording this video gbt 5 is not out yet and so to prepare for that here is everything that you need to know to master chat GPT for your [Music] writing first let's start with the basics and the very first thing you should know is how to even set up a chat GPT account now as of recently they have actually changed it so you don't technically need to have a chat GPT account all you need to do is go to chat.

2:41 open.com as you can see right here in my browser window and it will open a window window very similar to this and this tool has the ability to send messages and questions and it will answer you here but this is a very severely limited version of Chad gbt and so if you want something with a little more capability we're going to go ahead down here and say sign up once you get to the sign up page you can go ahead and enter your email address and just walk through the steps you don't necessarily have to set up a paid account to use chaty PT but as we'll get into in a little bit there are restrictions around the free accounts so there's not much you're going to be able to do there but I'll get into that in just a second once you are in and if you have a paid account it'll look something like this if you don't have a paid account it will look very similar but you might see that it will just say chat gbt 3.5 over here but this is the basics of setting up your

3:53 account the other thing to be aware of is that chat GPT actually has a chat GPT app which you can download and use for free and if you're using a paid account it integrates with the app seamlessly as well pretty much all of the functionalities that you will find in the web browser version of chat GPT are also found inside of the app including image generation and image recognition and it even has some text to speech capability so it can actually read you the answer that it gives you additionally there is a button here where you can press it and dictate into chat GPT so you don't even have to type out your questions you can just voice them and it will give you the answer so it's a very handy app to have okay so now that we are in chat gbt on the desktop version let's go ahead and do just a quick exploration of everything

4:39 that chat PT has to offer with more details to come later in the video over here on the left you have a history of all of your different chats so if you want to revisit chats that you've had and maybe continue on that conversation you can go ahead and find the chat here and then just continue on and then you'll have more and more you can delete these if you want or you can just leave them there you might also see a explore gpts button here and we'll get into gpts here in a second but these are some powerful additional tools that you can use in your writing process up here at the top left is where you start a new chat and then here if you're using a paid version gives you the option to access Dolly 3 and a GPT 4 and lots of other tools inside of this GPT 4 here but if you're on the free version it it'll just say GPT 3.5 down here is where you actually enter your prompts and they even give you a couple of sample prompts that you can try but generally in practice I don't use these very often down here at the bottom left you'll see different ways to customize your account you can view any gpts that