May 06 - Oh No! Where my book go?

Chatbots such as ChatGPT will NOT permanently save your queries and responses like say your operating system file manager does , no matter what they tell you. Even if they say they will, they don't. Saving material you create with the chatbot requires a manual process to save the material externally with a lot of copy and paste involved... It's an awful situation with authors becoming more like copy paste monkeys often without realizing they have to take care of it themselves. It's not clear if all chatbots behave this way because it can take weeks for the issue to arise.

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Frank Kurka
May 06, 2025

Conversational Chatbots will lose your information. Don't rely on them to remember anything beyond the current session.

- You may think that your chatbot would make a create collaborator to work on ideation, brain storming etc. and to an extent it does.

- But don't think it keeps a copy of your information, even though it insists it does. It may say it has saved the material in a canvas. But it is not permanent and each canvas can only hold around 5000 words or so while you are working with it

- It's not the chatbots fault though, changes in the systems it runs on can make it lose almost everything at some point

- You have to develop a systematic way to manually save the work you are doing with the chatbot for future use, say writing an article, a report or a book.

- You can write an application to automatically get around it or use a commercial tool to do it for you.

I’m researching the options and will give the results soon in a future newsletter.

Now ChatGPT can sell items

if you ask ChatGPT to find an product like you used to do with Google Search, or within eBay or Amazon it will pull up clickable links to buy the various offers. You don’t need to use them any more unless ChatGPT can’t find one. It’s a whole new ballgame for ecommerce.

Example: “search for a Microsoft laptop for sale in New York City”

will result in clickable images and links just like you’d expect in Google Search or Amazon. I can’t yet copypaste into the newsletter the images and clickable links you will get, so try for yourself

Here’s a better explanation

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that’s all for now

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