These types of SAAS products work for some businesses, and bloggers. They offer different word counts in their pricing tiers. And can get pricey if used a lot.
Going forward, these services will definitely be able to fool a lot of people, and save time for writers!
But if you want to test it out, let me know how you find it. I'd be interested to see if there is much difference between AI writing and real people writing. I appreciate the comments, Marla!
I used WriteSonic recently and thought I would let you know how I felt about it. I'll give you the good and the bad and an overall rating of it.
A client wanted me to use it for some writing work. He thought it would be faster and get more articles written. I found some of the information wrong when I used it.
The Good: You can type in an idea you're thinking about and it will give you topics, ideas, and outlines. You can also create the whole article but this is where it gets interesting.
The Bad: My client had allotted so many words. When I started using it, it was only about 7,500 words. I did one to two articles before I ran out of words. He purchased 75,000 more words but I was allotted 18,000 under a single user. There are three options: premium words, good words, and economy words. Using premium words sucked up a lot of words which I can't understand. It took close to 3,000 words on one article. I also found that it takes the words away from your overall list when you only go up to the Outline option. I tried switching it to economy words but it still shrank the list down considerably.
If you go to "create article", you have a good chance that the information will be wrong. I’ll tell you what I encountered. I came up with the idea of talking about what to do in a particular city in Florida, that was close to some entity. On two different instances, it gave me false info. The first one gave me 3 restaurants and talked about their food and what they specialized in. To be on the safe side, I ran those restaurants through Google Maps and a search engine. None of the places existed in this city in Florida. In fact, I tracked one to Morocco. The second instance talked about museums and art galleries in Florida. A couple of the listed museums/art galleries were correct but one was not. And it was not an art gallery, it turned out to be an Airbnb and I don't think it was even in Florida. So the information looks like it could be a hindrance.
Overall: I found myself doing more research because of all the bad information. This held me up when I was writing my content. I had to make sure the places were correct. I had to do lot more research to produce better copy. I found myself re-writing most of what was produced.
I hope that helps you.
If anyone has any other questions, I'll try to answer them.
This is a very important piece. Copyrighting is important. Writers have to eat too.
It always appeared to me that there is a GIGANTIC HOLE in the law of copyrights: The protection of ideas.
Under copyright law, one can get legal protection for prose or poetry one has composed.
However, some writers' prime contribution is not their verbal style and flair. Some writers, first and foremost,
synthesize important and novel ideas. Ideas are not subject to copyright protection.
How does this slaughter unrecognized thinkers:
Example 1:
John Poorman writes a thesis regarding poverty in which he elucidates ideas that have never before seen the light of day.
He submits the piece to a great magazine
The great and pompous publication doesn't want to pay that writer. They don't want a new guy coming into their club. They get another writer, who is part of their circle, to say what John Poorman said using different language. By using different language, they are able to steal Poorman's ideas and Poorman never gets a scintilla of credit
Example 2:
Where do you think Professors get their ideas. More than rarely, a student will turn in a cracker jack term paper. A couple of years later, the ideas in that student's term paper find their way into a professor's scholarly tome.
Of course, we want ideas to spread, to germinate, to be amended and qualified. But why the hell can't there be a legal obligation to give the writer who came up with the idea the credit.
I love hearing your legal analysis. This happened to another Substack writer friend, Emily of https://www.emilypostnews.com/
She had an exclusive about Alec Baldwin's shooting, and CNN, and other big media re-wrote her stories with no credit. She told me she was going to talk to the Substack Powers that be about how they could curb blatant plagiarism.
She stopped talking about it, but did not tell me if it got resolved. It may be too difficult to go against Goliath.
Thanks for the link. I use Grammarly and think it's worth the yearly subscription.
Grammarly is great! I use it too!
Great tips! Here's one I recommend Ashlyn Writes https://ashlynwrites.com/blog/
She also has a YouTube channel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmkvu3wX14OnCxecaDdjcXA/videos?app
Very impressive body of work there. Thanks for the recommendation. And a whole lot of reading ahead!
Any thoughts on Write Sonic AI? I'm confused if it is unlimited or limited to word count. https://writesonic.com/
These types of SAAS products work for some businesses, and bloggers. They offer different word counts in their pricing tiers. And can get pricey if used a lot.
Going forward, these services will definitely be able to fool a lot of people, and save time for writers!
If your business is set up so that you want to be found organically, through SEO, Google has a stance on AI writing: https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-says-ai-generated-content-is-against-guidelines/444916/
But if you want to test it out, let me know how you find it. I'd be interested to see if there is much difference between AI writing and real people writing. I appreciate the comments, Marla!
I used WriteSonic recently and thought I would let you know how I felt about it. I'll give you the good and the bad and an overall rating of it.
A client wanted me to use it for some writing work. He thought it would be faster and get more articles written. I found some of the information wrong when I used it.
The Good: You can type in an idea you're thinking about and it will give you topics, ideas, and outlines. You can also create the whole article but this is where it gets interesting.
The Bad: My client had allotted so many words. When I started using it, it was only about 7,500 words. I did one to two articles before I ran out of words. He purchased 75,000 more words but I was allotted 18,000 under a single user. There are three options: premium words, good words, and economy words. Using premium words sucked up a lot of words which I can't understand. It took close to 3,000 words on one article. I also found that it takes the words away from your overall list when you only go up to the Outline option. I tried switching it to economy words but it still shrank the list down considerably.
If you go to "create article", you have a good chance that the information will be wrong. I’ll tell you what I encountered. I came up with the idea of talking about what to do in a particular city in Florida, that was close to some entity. On two different instances, it gave me false info. The first one gave me 3 restaurants and talked about their food and what they specialized in. To be on the safe side, I ran those restaurants through Google Maps and a search engine. None of the places existed in this city in Florida. In fact, I tracked one to Morocco. The second instance talked about museums and art galleries in Florida. A couple of the listed museums/art galleries were correct but one was not. And it was not an art gallery, it turned out to be an Airbnb and I don't think it was even in Florida. So the information looks like it could be a hindrance.
Overall: I found myself doing more research because of all the bad information. This held me up when I was writing my content. I had to make sure the places were correct. I had to do lot more research to produce better copy. I found myself re-writing most of what was produced.
I hope that helps you.
If anyone has any other questions, I'll try to answer them.
Great info Matthew. If the AI gives wrong info, I guess it's worthless! I'm sure Marla appreciates the review also. Thanks again.
This is a very important piece. Copyrighting is important. Writers have to eat too.
It always appeared to me that there is a GIGANTIC HOLE in the law of copyrights: The protection of ideas.
Under copyright law, one can get legal protection for prose or poetry one has composed.
However, some writers' prime contribution is not their verbal style and flair. Some writers, first and foremost,
synthesize important and novel ideas. Ideas are not subject to copyright protection.
How does this slaughter unrecognized thinkers:
Example 1:
John Poorman writes a thesis regarding poverty in which he elucidates ideas that have never before seen the light of day.
He submits the piece to a great magazine
The great and pompous publication doesn't want to pay that writer. They don't want a new guy coming into their club. They get another writer, who is part of their circle, to say what John Poorman said using different language. By using different language, they are able to steal Poorman's ideas and Poorman never gets a scintilla of credit
Example 2:
Where do you think Professors get their ideas. More than rarely, a student will turn in a cracker jack term paper. A couple of years later, the ideas in that student's term paper find their way into a professor's scholarly tome.
Of course, we want ideas to spread, to germinate, to be amended and qualified. But why the hell can't there be a legal obligation to give the writer who came up with the idea the credit.
I love hearing your legal analysis. This happened to another Substack writer friend, Emily of https://www.emilypostnews.com/
She had an exclusive about Alec Baldwin's shooting, and CNN, and other big media re-wrote her stories with no credit. She told me she was going to talk to the Substack Powers that be about how they could curb blatant plagiarism.
She stopped talking about it, but did not tell me if it got resolved. It may be too difficult to go against Goliath.
Thanks for the comment, David!
Thanx for telling me about Emily. I really feel for her.