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Board member demonstrates ChatGPT 'Summarizer' to pull past meeting discussions; members raise public‑records concerns
Summary
Board member Dwayne Dyer demonstrated a ChatGPT‑based 'Summarizer' that ingests prior meeting audio and produces timelines and summaries. Members discussed Sunshine Law/public‑records implications and that any staff use should be constrained and reviewed by legal.
Board member Dwayne Dyer presented a ChatGPT‑based interface he built — called the 'Summarizer' — that ingests meeting audio and transcripts, anonymizes speakers for public demonstration and returns searchable summaries, timelines and sample visualizations.
Dyer said the tool holds the board’s previous conversations "at your fingertips" and can pull in other public sources, noting he tested queries that referenced the Fort Myers public website. "It's not magic, it's ChatGPT," Dyer said, describing the system as an interface connected to a large language model.
Members immediately flagged transparency and public‑records considerations. Economic Development Director Steve Weathers urged caution and told the board to "make an assumption that anything you type is a public record" and raised potential public‑records/privacy issues. Dyer said he disabled the option that would allow the board’s data to be used as training material for the AI and emphasized that Sunshine Law rules still apply.
Board members discussed how the Summarizer might be used tactically — for example, to re‑examine prior reports such as the Ned Murray study or to generate targeted lists of industry prospects — but repeatedly emphasized that staff should check legal implications before making the tool a routine workflow.
Dyer offered to circulate the tool link privately to board members and to run queries on their behalf; he said he would upload the presentation materials and transcripts to the clerk for distribution.
