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Using AI

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Using AI

Discover how AI is revolutionizing content creation in our latest article. By leveraging Grok, a powerful AI tool, the tedious task of formatting articles—such as removing hard line breaks and adjusting fonts—becomes effortless. With just a click, Grok can transform raw text into polished HTML, generate unique excerpts, and even craft social media posts. From clean, ready-to-run code to seamless API integration, explore how AI can save time and enhance readability. Dive into this astonishing journey of automation and see how it could transform your workflow!

The world is changing. It might be getting better.

I started speaking with Grok Thursday night. I was treating it as a search engine. What I wanted was a method to format the daily dump.

There is a lot of good content, but I wanted a method to make it look nicer without having to spend an excessive amount of time working it over. When I am quoting legal opinions, the longest part is manually formatting the quote.

Manually quoting means removing hard line breaks, removing hyphens, and adding the proper font style back. It just takes time.

What I want is to be able to click a button and have WordPress make a call to the Grok API to apply formatting to the article. Hopefully making it easier to read.

Grok 3 was able to give me good feedback on how to accomplish what I needed. The code was clean, commented, and ready to run.

I do read this stuff.

This led me to setting up an API account to use Grok 4 directly. I asked Grok-3 to provide me with code to do so.

Over the course of an hour or so, we were able to create a Python program that will fetch an article from the site. Reformat the article for proper HTML. Provide an excerpt that is different from the first part of the article. Create a post for X, and make that post.

This is pretty astonishing, in my opinion.

Now comes the testing.

        

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4 responses to “Using AI”

  1. CBMTTek Avatar
    CBMTTek

    The problem I have with AI is not the tech itself. It is the usage.

    When I was but a wee little engineering student, a professor stated the problem with computers is not garbage in = garbage out. It is “garbage in = gospel out.”

    AI is no different.

    Have a buddy that is a big advocate of it, but he uses it the way it is meant to be used. Give it a large volume of content, and have it distill the valuable info.

    However, too many people will use it as a search engine, and like any other search engine, you have to be able to discriminate between an accurate answer, and one that is based on number of web hits. Just because a term shows up in a LOT of places, does not mean it is accurate. AI does not know that, you do.

    Final grief about AI. As AI gets used more and more often, content created by AI will start permeating the ‘net. More people will use it, it will show up in mainstream news, etc… and, incorrect information created by AI will soon become “fact.”

    Like any other tool, AI is only as good as the individual using it.

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    1. curby Avatar
      curby

      I’ve noticed some vlog creators mentioning “I asked ai about it and this is what it said”… who is programming the ai? same ones running google??
      same “fact checkers” that fb uses??
      like everything ai is a TOOL.
      when people increasingly let technogizmos run their life they get dumb

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      1. Joseph L. Roberts Avatar
        Joseph L. Roberts

        Watch the unfortunately probably prescient movie “Idiocracy”
        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiocracy

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  2. Joseph L. Roberts Avatar
    Joseph L. Roberts

    Joshua: testing
    Joshua: testing
    Joshua: testing
    Joshua: hello…..Shall we play a game?

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