Remixing and Refining work
You can use GenAI to develop and remix your written, visual and audio content. With the right prompts, GenAI can:
- Improve the quality and clarity of your written work.
- Proofread and provide recommendations for editing.
- Help you discover a better way to communicate information.
- Articulate your ideas in a clear and consistent tone.
- Give you ideas for representing data and concepts in visual form.
Different areas of remix or refinement
There are many ways GenAI tools can remix and refine your work, such as checking the quality and accuracy of your creations and offering complementary additions to it.
Click on the plus (+) icons to explore some example prompts and ways you can use generative AI tools to enhance your work.
Activity overview
This interactive image hotspot uncovers some example prompts and ways you can use GenAI tools to remix and refine your work. Hotspots are displayed as plus (+) icons that can be clicked, to present the information.
Hotspot 1: Grammar and punctuation
Using Gen AI to provide grammar and punctuation suggestions can be a useful supplement to built-in spelling and grammar checking tools in word processing software. GenAI understands context and as a result can provide more nuanced and sophisticated language suggestions. Many GenAI tools follow American English spelling conventions by default. Therefore, it is important to check spelling in GenAI output to ensure it matches your preferred spelling conventions.
Example:
- Proofread the following paragraph, making grammar and punctuation suggestions to improve the quality of my writing. Keep the tone academic [insert paragraph].
Hotspot 2: Tone and expression
GenAI can help improve the overall style and tone of your writing. It may offer alternatives to repetitive words, suggest more varied sentence structures, and refine the tone to match your intended style. GenAI can suggest alternative words or phrases to enhance your vocabulary and make your writing more precise or expressive.
Examples:
- Ensure there is a consistent written style throughout the following paragraph [insert paragraph].
- Are there any synonyms for [word] that would work better in this context?
- How can I adapt the sentence structure in the following paragraph to make it more engaging for the reader [insert paragraph].
Hotspot 3: Language suggestions or translations
Alternative phrasing, suggesting improvements or translation of foreign languages are all functions GenAI can perform.
Examples:
- How do you say [word] in English? I've heard variations, and I want to use the most commonly understood term.
- Can you help me express this idea in English? [insert paragraph in language other than English].
Hotspot 4: Improvements to writing
GenAI also has the ability to review your writing and suggest improvements to aspects such as clarity and coherence. For example, if sentences are unclear or if there are logical gaps, the tool can suggest revisions for better flow and understanding. It can provide recommendations for improving the structure and variety of your sentences, making your writing more engaging and readable.
Examples:
- Ensure there is a consistent written style throughout the following paragraph [insert paragraph].
- Is there a more concise way to express this idea [insert paragraph]?
Hotspot 5: Fact checking
Generative AI tools can help you check if what you assert as fact is supported by evidence or if it is misleading. However, you need to keep in mind that there are inherent constraints on what GenAI can tell you based on how current its knowledge is and any potential biases in its training. The limitations section of AI basics goes into further detail about this important aspect of generative AI.
Example:
- I want you to act as a fact checker and help me screen my work for potential misinformation or disinformation. Please flag as misinformation or disinformation anything that stems from a conspiracy theory. Here is my work: [PASTE TEXT]. Check out this example in ChatGPT.
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Concepts in visual form
GenAI tools can help you to produce visual content that can enhance your work by unpacking complex topics and representing your data and text in a visual format.
Just as a mind map can help you understand a topic, a mind map can help others understand your work by providing a visual representation of the different pieces of information within. This visualisation may help you present and explain more effectively.
Example prompt- Create a mind map based on my work. List the central idea(s), main branches and any sub-branches. Here is my work [PASTE TEXT].
ChatGPT and other text-based generative AI cannot create a visual mind map but can create text-based representations that you can convert into a visual representation using other tools.
As you are the expert on your work it is a good idea to check that the mapping matches with your understanding, and communicates what you want to communicate. You may need to ask the generative AI to re-work certain aspects of the visualisation.
The best generative AI tools that aid with data visualisation respond to natural language input, bring in real-time data where appropriate, and suggest options for appropriate visualisation based on their understanding of your dataset.
Text-based generative AI tools are obviously unable to visualise the data for you but they can suggest how data is best represented visually. Explore the prompt below in ChatGPT to see this in action.
Example prompt- Are you able to suggest data visualisation options if I describe my data to you? Interact with this in ChatGPT.
Tools such as DALL-E 2 and Stable Diffusion can create images based on text input. Often they respond best when you add as much detail as you can into the prompt. Being specific is also very helpful, as is referencing any images you have seen that the tool could understand as inspiration. You can also use repetition of a concept, or placing emphasis on it, to adjust the ‘tone’ of the image towards something that feels right.
While text-based generative AI tools can’t create images they can respond to your text by giving you ideas for an image. This may help you create your own using other tools, generative AI or otherwise. The below ChatGPT prompt is an example of how it might help spark ideas which you can use as a starting point.
Example prompt- Please suggest ideas for an image representing the famous "Paisley Snail" legal case, also known as Donoghue v Stevenson. This case set an important precedent in English tort law. Interact with this in ChatGPT
Caution
While GenAI can be a tremendous aid, it's still essential to stay engaged in the learning process. Use AI as a tool to enhance and supplement your efforts, not as a replacement for critical thinking and personal understanding.