ChatGPT: How to Stay Competitive in a World of AI Assistants

What are 7 ways that people have used ChatGPT to build businesses?

• Jon Khaykin used ChatGPT to find opportunities for an Amazon business.
• Mats-Peter Forss used it to find relevant keywords and boost his SEO.
• Sutra is a copywriter who uses ChatGPT to find and write content ideas.
• Troy Osinoff says ChatGPT wrote a cold email that closed an 8-figure deal.
• Marcos Fernandes used it to write game character backgrounds for his clients.
• Charlie Bennet is a full-time writer. He uses ChatGPT to summarize complex topics.
• Kingpinner paired ChatGPT with Midjourney to create designs for his print-on-demand business.
• Pascio got thousands of subscribers from sharing Copywriting and Email Marketing prompts. Note: 11,580 emails were collected. No info on revenue and emails he already had (existing followers?)
  
  

What makes a business defensible when ChatGPT is commonplace?

Mass adoption of ChatGPT may affect your business in 2 ways:

1. You start using ChatGPT to deliver your services. You rely on it too much. You lose your competitive edge as others can do that too. Price becomes the only differentiator.
2. Your clients start using ChatGPT to do what you do for them. If they don’t understand the value of your services, you become irrelevant. ChatGPT is cheaper and doesn’t sleep.

To stay competitive, your business should have an edge over ChatGPT. First, make sure your clients understand the value of your services. ChatGPT may answer fast. But its answers may not lead to the desired outcomes. ChatGPT doesn’t understand nor foresee the consequences of his answers or actions taken based on these. Second, make sure you have a moat. This may be a team, domain expertise or proprietary solution that makes ChatGPT irrelevant for the kind of services you provide.

What makes a career defensible when ChatGPT is commonplace?

Mediocre and entry-level professionals will suffer the most from the mass adoption of ChatGPT. If ChatGPT can do your work, anyone can do it. To stay relevant, you should gain knowledge, skills or experience that go beyond ChatGPT’s capabilities. ChatGPT’s answers tend to be incorrect, imprecise or too general. Whether it’s a marketing strategy, piece of content or code snippet. Your moat is your ability to find and fix flaws in responses generated by ChatGPT.

How is ChatGPT being used with AI Image Generators?

You can use ChatGPT to generate detailed image prompts for AI-image generators such as DALL·E 2, Midjourney or Stable Diffusion. You can use ChatGPT to generate adjectives, properties and descriptions of objects or scenes you want to draw. Guy Parsons used ChatGPT’s prompts to generate living room designs with Midjourney.

What are the threats of ChatGPT?

• It is prone to bias and discrimination. It can produce hateful, racist or sexist comments.
• It can spread disinformation by faking sources and giving plausible, but incorrect or nonsensical answers.
• It is not meant to give advice and you shouldn’t rely on it for anything important. ChatGPT is not a doctor, lawyer or financial adviser.
• It can lower the bar for finding exploits, creating malware and phishing emails.
• ChatGPT is trained on publicly available texts. It doesn’t give attribution so it’s unclear who owns the rights to the generated answers.
  
  

Should developers/programmers feel threatened by ChatGPT?

Developers should not feel threatened by ChatGPT. At least for now. It can write code that works. But most of the time you should guide it to the right solution. Code generated by ChatGPT may include typos, logic flaws or keywords taken from various languages. To get the best result, you should find and ask ChatGPT to fix those by telling ChatGPT where the problem stems from. That being said, it learned to fix code problems without clear instructions. This may give rise to AI-assisted developers that supervise ChatGPT’s solutions to common coding problems. Other developers will switch to solving complex problems that will still need the human expertise and creativity that ChatGPT lacks.

How to detect whether ChatGPT is being used?

Use one of the tools below:

• Writer detects AI content from text or URL.
• GPTZero detects essays written by ChatGPT.
• Turnitin is working on a ChatGPT detector for teachers.
• Originality is a plagiarism checker and AI content detector.
• AI Text Classifier is an AI and ChatGPT detector by OpenAI.
  
  

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