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I stopped my membership around 5 to 6 years ago - I could not justify the
value. My company paid my dues, but when a new company bought us, I came to
the conclusion that I was not interested in trying to get the dues paid -
it no longer seemed worth it.
I don't think ChatGPT is ready to "write the docs" either, although I've
been given a goal of investigating it for potential use in our
documentation.
On Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 9:28âAM Peter Neilson <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net>
wrote:
> I attended a local meeting just once, and noticed that the major topic
> of discussion was the lack of involvement of local tech writers. I
> continued my own lack of involvement.
>
> Now, of course, many potential clients will be thinking that AI chatbots
> can do the writing. Yeah. Sure. I asked ChatGPT about the mysterious
> death of a friend, decades ago. ChatGPT told me that he shot himself (he
> did not) and did so five months after he died.
>
> On 1/30/25 09:01, Emoto wrote:
> > Although now retired, I spent 23 years as a technical writer. I looked
> into
> > STC a couple of times, but never managed to find the value proposition
> > compelling. It is possible, perhap even likely, that I overlooked
> > something, but I am not much of a joiner anyway.
>
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