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How To Use Generative AI
As you experiment with various GenAI tools
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Do not ever enter personally identifiable information, controlled unclassified information, classified information, or otherwise sensitive information into GenAI tools.
Two essential skills for working with Generative AI are prompting and output evaluation/analysis. Prompting involves learning the most effective ways to ask the Generative AI tool to do a tasks. Evaluation and analysis of outputs involves determining if the output the tool produced is actually correct, true information and if it meets your needs.
In order to generate text, images, or other content, the GenAI tool will use your input or prompt, run that input through an algorithm, and generate an output.
All GenAI tools require inputs called prompts. Different terms such as prompt engineering and prompt crafting describe ways in which prompts can be created to make it more likely to receive the desired output. Some examples of things you can prompt Generative AI to do are:
OpenAI. (2024). ChatGPT (Version 3.5) [Large language model]. https://chat.openai.com/chat
Prompt: What kinds of things can I prompt Generative AI to do?
