Move over, software. Prompts may well be the new oil.
Writing the text strings that instruct AI systems like ChatGPT and DALL-E 2 to generate essays, articles, images and more has become a veritable profession, commanding salaries well into the six-figure range. Anyone can come up with prompts, of course. But only certain prompts (e.g. “Create a watercolor of a solider standing in the middle of a field, in the style of John Singer Sargent) accomplish very specific, desirable (or undesirable) things.
Prompt writing requires skill and dedication, owing to the black box and unpredictable nature of today’s bleeding-edge AI systems. (See: Bing Chat’s off-the-rails ranting.) Complicating matters further, the systems are frequently changing and responding to Read Entire Article
