ChatGPT seems to offer an interesting way to create instructional content automatically.<\/p>\n

Does that mean it’s bad news for Technical Authors?<\/p>\n

Well, developers can already create instructions quickly, by taking a series of screenshots and pasting them into a document. Quick and dirty, and usually an approach that organisations avoid.<\/p>\n

The text generated by ChatGPT is a little wordy, so it probably would need an edit before it was published.<\/p>\n

So we think ChatGPT could be a time saving tool for Technical Authors, rather than a threat to their careers.<\/p>\n

There will still be a need to decide what content users will need, how to organise that content, and to check the content generated is the best answer.<\/p>\n

And, of course, there will be an ongoing need to maintain the documentation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"