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They should have done it right the first time? That's not the world we live in.

Coworkers, associates, clients, family - everyone sends us funky data. Sometimes it's a PDF of text instead of a text file, or a picture of their computer screen with a paragraph in it, or copy-pasted text with unwanted formatting, etc, etc.

And the point of this article wasn't really about the tedious job of copy/pasting, it was that once the data was ready, instead of hunkering down and having to work through a problem with an unknown number of variables, GPT-4 can drop an answer in seconds flat. Maybe a few more if you have to tweak your prompt a few times.

Part 2 here is that we have a problem to solve, and that's how data is sent and received, and that it all needs to end up in a structural format that's usable by our AI tools.

I am thinking that writing a script that can dump textual data from literally anything I'm looking at so it's AI-ready makes a lot of sense, then we have step 1 taken care of as well for my own personal GPT-solvable situations.