The five biggest mistakes people make when prompting an AI [Video]

Generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Gemini and Copilot can be powerful. Even though generative AI is a fairly new technology, a powerful limitation on its use dates back to the 1950s or earlier: GIGO. GIGO means “garbage in, garbage out.” If you ask AIs the wrong questions or don’t ask them correctly, you’re pretty much guaranteed to get nonhelpful answers.

Also: 7 ways to write better ChatGPT prompts – and get the results you want faster

In this article, I’m going to show you what I consider the five biggest mistakes, but I’m only one source. So, in addition to my own answers, I took this question to the “people” who should know best about this particular topic, the AIs.

I’ve asked ChatGPT, Copilot, Grok, Gemini and Meta AI the same question: “What are the five biggest mistakes people make when prompting an AI?”

To make sure my thoughts weren’t influenced …