How AI is Changing My Job as an Instructional Designer

I ignored ChatGPT for months. I had multiple excuses:

“I have a 3-year-old! I’m too busy.”

“I’m never the first to adopt a new technology!” (A family trait – we didn’t get our first CD player until the mid-90s.)

“I’m not giving it my email and phone number!”

But last week, my interest piqued by the New York Times’ five-part series on AI, I gave in. The NYT’s first assignment was to ask the chatbot of your choice to create a cover letter for your dream job. Since I already have my dream job, I asked ChatGPT to write a cover letter for an instructional designer role.

I was impressed with the speed of its output, though the letter itself was short on specifics and cliched. For example, it wrote, “I am confident I have the skills and experience necessary to make a valuable contribution to your team.” (Not that I haven’t written similar sentences, making it – more human?)

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