Learning AI: Adding Content

This is lesson 7 from the free online course, 💟 2 Weeks AI
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Wrapping up our first week, we’re diving into using AI with long-form content — rounding off our exploration of different input methods like text, voice, and images.

✅ Tip: The free version of ChatGPT does not currently support file uploads like PDFs or spreadsheets. However, since it allows messages up to 3,000 words, you can simply copy and paste large chunks of text instead!

Adding Content

AI isn’t just great at short chats — it can also analyze, summarize, and interact with longer documents like emails, news articles, research papers, legal and financial documents and more.

As a simple example, if you paste a long email, you can ask:

Summarize this email and highlight any key points I should respond to:
{{paste long email}}

Using Documents as Context

Just like we’ve used context in text conversations, we can do the same with pasted documents. Once AI has read a piece of content, you can continue the discussion.

After summarizing an email, you could follow up with:

Here’s my reply. Did I address all the key points?
{{paste reply}}

You can then tweak your response with AI’s help: