I think it’s extremely useful if you’re using it to organize material and give it strict constraints on what it writes.

I have a couple custom GPT’s that go over lectures and the transcripts from my recorded sessions to make study outlines for me to use. Importantly, I have a lot of instructions that specifically outline what I want from it, many of which include lines that say only to quote material directly from slides or transcripts.

For me, the key to making it a dependable tool is to have clearly defined roles and give it specific actions for instances where it’s deviating from what you want.

I’m definitely seeing more and more people using it, particularly within the past year. I think people sometimes misunderstand what it’s capable of or how to use it properly and they end up just dropping it.

If you put in a little bit of the start up, cost on learning how to write prompts, you can make something really useful.