Here's What Happened When I Used a Chatbot to Write a Blog Post
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Since late last summer, there's been much chatter in about the ease of use and low cost of ChatGPT for writing content over the "cost" of human writers. Rather than see this rise of the chatbot as a frightening development, I began using ChatGPT for legitimate purposes other than writing and posting blog content. (I certainly don't use it write client content.)
But, I became increasingly curious about whether these AI writing platforms that purport to have multiple top brand users produced good content. So, I did my own experiment using a ChatGPT-driven platform that I won't name.
I had the platform draft a story on a subject I know well—life insurance. From title to conclusion, the 'article,' Securing Your Children's Future: Why Moms Need Life Insurance More Than Ever," was it poorly written. There also was no research backing the assertions in the blog post. I always use research to support my business blog content, so that bothered me.
But, when I used ZeroGPT to see if it detected AI-generated content, the results astounded me. Here's the output I got.
At least when I scanned this text for plagiarism using Grammarly, I found none.
Moral of the story? If you want to avoid having your content detected as AI-generated, you'll have to write it yourself or hire a human to write the content. (ZeroGPT will tell you if content is 100% human generated, too.) Otherwise, expect poorly written content with no research support that may offend your readers.
I can't see respected brands publishing such poorly written content that may damage their brand reputation. So, writers who offer data-backed, well-researched, expert-driven, engaging stories have no worries about losing their clients to AI right now. In fact, we might get offers to rewrite AI-generated content at their regular fees, and that's good for our business.
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