From the beginning, I made 1 crucial mistake with ChatGPT: I expected it to "think" rather than "do." This means I fed it poorly written, 1-sentence prompts and expected some magical output. But poor instructions = poor results. So here's how I reframed it:

At a high level, ChatGPT is horrible at coming up with things "from scratch." • "Write me a Twitter thread on X" • "Draft an email about Y" • "Come up with ideas about Z" When given prompts like this, ChatGPT has to make too many arbitrary decisions—which means poor output.

3) I ask ChatGPT to rewrite my writing with 7 different "goals": 1. More concise 2. More emphatic 3. More humorous 4. More descriptive 5. More persuasive 6. More informative 7. More action-oriented This one is my personal favorite. Great for rewriting emails/messages.

Really gotta watch out for those drag queens in Tennessee — those 9 year olds just aren’t safe.

Don’t Say Gay won’t protect gay kids from anti-lgbt abuse. But it WILL protect straight kids from having to learn that anti-lgbt abuse is wrong. And that's the point.

Good morning to readers. Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands. Please RT this thread. It’s an important one. Some news: I’m leaving NPR as part of the layoffs that dramatically cut the org's workforce. I’ve decided to go back into Ukraine to keep reporting. But this time, alone.

Amazon has a new low-cost health service called Clinic. But there's a hidden price: Your privacy. Before you can sign up, you have to sign away some of your HIPAA protections to Amazon. You agreed to what? I investigated The Washington Post: wapo.st/3nbJ26B

Dear school administrators: Before telling teen reporters that you can't comment b/c of FERPA, do your homework. FERPA only protects the privacy of personally identifiable information in a student’s education record. It doesn't prevent you from being accountable to the community.

The MAGA base is a minority group in American politics whose needs we must all apparently bend over backwards to accommodate. This was the "lesson" many journalism leaders took from 2016 and are now fighting the same war. It is nuts.

And awaaaaayyy we go… are we ready for a Deep Fake/AI election?

Another day of smoky skies in southeastern Canada and the northeast U.S. Observed earlier today by NOAA-20, NOAA-21, and SNPP VIIRS: col.st/MtFhf.

A great reporter, writer, voice, and soul. RIP Wade, and thanks for every single memorable moment: npr.org/2023/06/08/116…

I want to remind people that the Repubs said Hillary was unqualified because of how she treated a few emails……