I share my experience and process of generating daily newsletters from Singapore Law Watch using ChatGPT, serverless functions and web technologies. #Featured

Introduction

It's easy to be impressed with Large Language Models like #ChatGPT and GPT-4. They're really helpful and fun to use. There are a ton of uses if you're creative. For weeks I was mesmerised by the possibilities — this is the prompt I would use. Using this and that, I can do something new.

When I got serious, I found a particular itch to scratch. I wanted to create a product. Something created by AI that people can enjoy. It has to work, be produced quickly and have room to grow if it is promising. It should also be unique and not reproduce anything currently provided by LawNet or others.🤔

There is one problem which I felt I could solve easily. I've religiously followed Singapore Law Watch for most of my working life. It's generally useful as a daily update on Singapore's most relevant legal news. There's a lot of material to read daily, so you have to scan the headlines and the description. During busier days, I left more things out.

So… what can ChatGPT do? It can read the news articles for me, summarise them, and then make a summary report out of all of them. This is different from scanning headlines because, primarily, the AI has read the whole article. Hopefully, it can provide better value than a list of articles.