Learn to Use ChatGpt Like it Was Your Subordinate Where You Work

Everyone online seems to have their panties in a bunch over the issue of whether or not it’s ethical to use Chatgpt if you’re a writer.

Enough already.

Chatgpt is a tool and useful resource when it’s used in the right way. Of course, if people have a mind to abuse it or use it for bad, that’s also a possibility, but the tool shouldn’t be faulted for that.

My suggestions are simple concerning the use of AI, and particularly with regard to Chatgpt.

I admit that I simply love helping it design stunning images, and rarely am I interested in turning it lose and letting it do it’s own thing.

When I go to the website and begin imagining the images I want to create, it’s a team effort, that’s why I recently published my little quick starter resource guide called Me and AI (Available on Gumroad and also in the Amazon marketplace).

I’m a prolific writer with over 2,000 human written stories published on Medium, so I’m too much of a ham to enable AI to take credit for my work.

I use it to help me design the precise images I envision, to go along with my stories, book covers, and other content I publish.

With my guide that you can read in a half hour’s time, I help you appreciate how to make Chatgpt do what you say and not the other way around.

All you need to remember are these simple suggestions:

• Use this tool to let it do the heavy lifting for you, not the creative thinking that you should be responsible for.
• Treat Chatgpt like you would treat one of your subordinates on a job, whereby you do the thinking, designing of layout, and giving of instructions, and let them execute your orders.
• Take the time to fully digest the secret to creating awesome images, by learning how to use effective prompts with Chatgpt.

Final Thoughts

I decided to revisit this topic after I previously wrote about it on another platform, and it got very little attention.

Sometimes I think we online writers and creatives are getting afraid or too timid to REALLY say how we feel about a topic - especially on the subject of artificial intelligence, as it relates to our craft, whatever it happens to be.

Some of us simply don't want to rock the boat, or seem too out of step with our peers. I can understand it, but I'm just not that conservative when it comes to my writing.

Any serious writer and content creator in 2026 already knows what kind of competition we human writers are up against, with regard to bots, plagiarism, and now, the prevalence of AI written content.

This is certainly a problem that should not go unnoticed or without discussion, while the industry focuses on finding reasonable solutions.

But in the meantime and in between time, there’s no harm in learning to understand and utilize some of the existing AI tools and resources in a meaningful, yet ethical way.

If you’d like to give it a try, you may just be pleasantly surprised at the fun and new level of productivity that Chatgpt helps you to reach.

Thanks for reading.

I would love nothing more, than to hear back from other writers in the community, and see what your personal views are.

For additional food for thought on this subject, see my recently released story published in Vocal's HUMANS Community. The title is called:

Suno, ChatGpt and Other AI Programs: What's An Unsuspecting Audience to Do?

OR read the related story I published in Vocal's WRITERS Community, titled:

Why Do People Disagree with AI Tech Like Chatgpt?