3 simple steps to build and train your own CustomGPT for specialist roles and authentic content production with AI
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Let’s face it. ChatGPT is pretty rubbish at most tasks.
Don’t get me wrong; not a day goes by that I’m not blown away by what AI can do.
But I’ve never yet sat back and said…. WOW…. I could never have done that.
Today, AI is like an overconfident intern during their first week at a new job.
You’ll always get an answer that initially sounds great, but very quickly, you’ll spot some big holes.
The problem is not the AI itself but how the AI has been trained.
Unfortunately, there is more incorrect information on the internet than correct information.
And that’s what our AI has been trained on. So what’s the solution?
Well, just like with your new intern, if you want a specific output from your AI, you need to train it.
And that’s exactly why you need to build your own CustomGPT.
Here are 3 simple steps to get started.
Step 1 – Prepare your CustomGPT training material
The first step is to assemble your training material.
You can have as many CustomGPT as you want. I prefer building multiple specialized GPT’s rather than one or two more general ones. You could have one for marketing content creation, one for drafting meta ads, and one for SEO. Training content can include samples, frameworks, methodologies, and processes.
The more content you train your CustomGPT on, the better it will perform.
Step 2 – Create your CustomGPT
Building your CustomGPT is easy.
In your program of choice, click on create CustomGPT, give your bot a name, and mark it as private. Also, select the option not to share your uploaded training material with the model. One of the reasons I love Poe.com is that I can pick which LLM to use for my CustomGPT.
Now that we’ve built the shell of our CustomGPT, it’s time to train it.
Step 3 – Train your CustomGPT
There are two parts to the training process.
The first step is to tell your CustomGPT what its role is. This gives your GPT context for what you expect from it. The second step is to upload your training data and processes to tell your CustomGPT how to complete the tasks you will ask it to do.
And, remember you can add to your CustomGPT’s knowledge base anytime you want.
If you want to get the most from AI and start practically implementing it in your business, it’s important to move past one-off prompts.
Just as when your business grows, you recruit more specialists to your team…..
As your AI use grows, you want to build and train specialist GPTs.
So, what’s the first CustomGPT you’d like to build?