As a writer myself, this sounds incredibly depressing to me. The way I get to something sounding like something I would write is to write it, which in turn is what makes me a writer.
What you’re doing sounds very productive for producing a text but it’s not something you’ve actually written.
On the other hand, I’ve had enough conversations with Spanish speakers in Florida like at my barbershop and a local bar in a tourist area who speak limited English and I would much rather have real conversations between my broken Spanish and their broken English than listen to or read AI Slop.
[1] according to this scale, I’m past A1 into A2.1 category now. But I still feel like I’m A1
This flow sounds like what an intern did in pr reviews and it made me want to throw something out a window. Please just use your own words. They are good words and much better words than you may think.
https://chatgpt.com/share/68f0666a-2bf0-8010-9d35-2ac4bdc870...
This article was dated as being written in 2020
https://chatgpt.com/share/68f06775-c570-8010-af7b-29531a22fd...
Original article
https://www.yourmembership.com/blog/tips-effective-board-mee...
I can’t share links from Gemini or Grok. But they both immediately flagged the first one as AI generated and the second most likely human.
I didn’t actually do anything here except told ChatGPT to rewrite it in the form of an article I found from an old PDF “97 Things a software engineer should know” from 2010, then ask Grok did it sound AI generated (it did), ask Grok to rewrite it to remove tell tale signs (it still kept the em dashes) and then I copied it ba k to ChatGPT.
https://chatgpt.com/share/68f06cec-3a20-8010-8178-a69695db16...
With some human editing to make it sound less douchery or better prompting, do you think you could tell?
With some human editing to make it sound less douchery or better prompting, do you think you could tell?
In other words - I did no human editing or even played with the prompt.
For instance, I would have definitely reworded this “a solid meeting isn’t just about not screwing up the logistics. It’s a snapshot of how your team actually operate”
The “it isn’t just $x. It is $y” is something that Ai loves to do.
The larger point is AI is really good at detecting its own slop. Gemini is really good at detecting first pass AI Slop from another LLM and out of curiosity I put a few other articles I knew was written before 2022 to see if it gave false positives.
AI has a voice in writing which youd need to almost completely rewrite every word to remove at which point, why use ai?
Just to be repeat myself, my blog isn’t for marketing, I don’t have any advertising on them, I don’t post a link to it anywhere and I have no idea if anyone besides me has ever read it since I don’t have any analytics. I don’t have my name or contact information on it
I then edit it for tone, get rid of some of the obvious AI tells. Make some edits for voice, etc.
Then I throw it into another season of ChatGPT and ask it does it sound “AI written”. It will usually call out some things and give me “advice”. I take the edits that sound like me.
Then I put the text through Grok, Gemini and ask it the same thing. I make more edits and keep going around until I am happy with it. By the time I’m done, it sounds like I something I would write.
You can make AI generated prose have a “voice” with careful prompting and I give it some of my writing.
Why don’t I just write it myself if I’m going through all that? It helps me get over writers block and helps me clarify my thoughts. My editing skills are better than my writing skills.
As I do it more and give it more writing samples, it is a faster process to go from bland AI to my “voice”
[1] my blog is really not for marketing. I don’t link to it anywhere and I don’t even have my name attached to it. It’s more like a public journal.