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Your AI assistant: how to use ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude
Six short lessons on ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude: what they’re good and bad at, getting started without falling for fake apps, writing prompts that work, checking answers, protecting your privacy, and healthy everyday habits. Built on eSafety, NCSC, FTC and the companies’ own help pages.
About this course
Your AI assistant: how to use ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude.
Starter · About 1 hour of learning · 6 lessons · 13 quick checks · 1 download
Who it's for
Adults in Australia, the UK, the US and elsewhere who are new to AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude, or use them casually and want to use them well and safely.
How it works
6 guided lessons in your browser, with worked examples, exercises and a quick check after each lesson. Progress is saved in this browser only, and you can restart at any time.
Sources we rely on
12 published sources, mostly regulators and official bodies, listed below so you can check the original guidance yourself.
By the end you can
- Explain what AI assistants are and where they go wrong
- Open the genuine app or site and secure your account
- Write clear prompts with context, task, format and limits
- Check AI answers with a four-step routine and ask neutral questions
- Protect your privacy and use AI for everyday jobs with healthy ground rules
Downloads
- AI assistant starter kit .docxA prompt builder, 20 everyday prompt starters, a four-step answer check, a never-paste list, a privacy settings log and a ground-rules card, with June’s worked example.
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Learning time
About 1 hour of learning. May count towards your CPD or professional development; check your professional body's rules. Estimated from reading time, exercises, quick checks and downloads.
Sources
Check the originals.
Drafted with AI assistance and run through automated quality and source checks. How these courses are made. Spotted an error or out-of-date rule? Send a correction.
General information only. Life courses don't give health, financial or legal advice.
- The eSafety Guide: ChatGPT · eSafety Commissioner (Australia)
- The eSafety Guide: Google Gemini · eSafety Commissioner (Australia)
- The eSafety Guide: Claude · eSafety Commissioner (Australia)
- AI chatbots and companions: risks to children and young people · eSafety Commissioner (Australia)
- What is AI? · Be Connected, eSafety Commissioner (Australia)
- AI and cyber security: what you need to know · National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC, UK)
- Ads for fake AI and other software spread malicious software · Federal Trade Commission, Consumer Advice (US)
- What is ChatGPT? (help article) · OpenAI Help Center (vendor)
- Data controls in ChatGPT · OpenAI Help Center (vendor)
- Temporary chat in ChatGPT · OpenAI Help Center (vendor)
- Gemini Apps Privacy Hub · Google, Gemini Apps Help (vendor)
- Is my data used for model training? · Anthropic Privacy Center (vendor)
Publisher
Who publishes this course.
Published by trainyourself.org, a trading name of Combine TRS Pty Ltd (ABN 42 112 983 678), Brisbane, Australia.
How it's made: drafted with AI assistance from published official, government and vendor guidance, then run through automated quality checks against our course depth standard and automated source checks that match each rule to its official source, listed above. The course guide is an AI presenter and is labelled as one. Read how these courses are made.
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