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ChatGPT and Generative Artificial Intelligence

This guide accompanies MLS continuing education opportunities about generative artificial intelligence.

This is a selected list of text- and image-generating AI tools, ideas for creating prompts, and detectors for AI-created text.

Before diving in, you may consider reading or watching this short video about concerns related to AI and safety, privacy, and ethics.

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Text-generating AI - General Tools

Text-generating AI - Specialized Tools for Librarians, Educators, and Researchers

Want to discover even more tools built on GPT? Try searching or browsing these compiled lists of tools:

11 AI Powered Apps that Are Actually Useful (LifeHacker)
AI Copywriting Tools
Chatbot Arena: Benchmarking LLMs in the Wild
Which genAI is best? Try Chatbot Arena to test 38 different large language models head-to-head on a prompt.
Generative AI in Higher Education: The Product Landscape (Ithaka S + R)
Generative AI Product Tracker (compiled by Ithaka S + R)
Futurepedia AI Tools Directory

Multimedia

Image-generating AI Tools

DALL-E 2 (OpenAI)
DALL-E 3 (OpenAI)
Note: DALL-E 3 is only available to GPT Plus and Enterprise users. To try it out without a paid ChatGPT account, use Copilot in Bing.
Decktopus (Slide Presentation Generator)
ImageFX (Google)
Imagine (Meta)
Microsoft Designer Image Creator (requires a Microsoft account)
MidJourney
Note: using MidJourney requires a Discord account.
NightCafe Creator
Perchance
Scribble Diffusion
SkyBox - Create 360 3D worlds
Stable Diffusion DreamStudio

Audio-generating AI Tools

Video-generating AI Tools

Code-generating AI Tools

Prompt Ideas

Generative AI tools generate content in response to written and image prompts. Try some of these resources for prompt ideas:

AI Detectors

No AI detection tool is perfect. Some of the most popular since ChatGPT debuted are:

Article: ‘ChatGPT detector’ catches AI-generated papers with unprecedented accuracy (Nature)
Article: How Easy Is It to Fool A.I.-Detection Tools? (New York Times)
GPTZero
Maybe's AI Art Detector
OpenAI Text Classifier
Note: "As of July 20, 2023, the AI classifier is no longer available due to its low rate of accuracy" (OpenAI). Read more here
Turnitin
Winston
Content at Scale AI Detector