I’m Tired of ChatGPT-Generated Articles
“Navigate the intricate landscape of writing articles with artificial intelligence” — SHUT UP!
Not gonna lie, the bot is funny sometimes. Wonder who it stole that joke from.
A couple of months ago, I quit my well-paid and mentally damaging corporate job to pursue my passion for writing. I’m lackluster at it, but hey, it’s honest work and I’m learning new skills, so that’s something to be proud of.
Being a content writer is definitely not as stressful as my previous job; I get to read, research, take notes, string words together, and sometimes make them make sense… it’s great!
And my work gets published too, which tickles my hypothalamus to release that delicious dopamine soup into my system.
I happily hopped onto one of the websites I wrote for recently to check out if my guest post was live. It’s there, and I did a happy little dance, then, naturally, I scrolled down to see what else is being published.
Browsing through the categories, I noticed this site allows a hodgepodge of all sorts of topics: aerospace, cosmetics, and public safety, to name a few. Of course I navigate to writing because that’s my current hyperfixation.
And what do I see…
Elevating XYZ: Writing with Expertise and Excellence
Professional Writing: Unlock Your Secret Potential
Harness the Power of XYZ: Unveiling Success Strategies
I was, for lack of a better word, TRIGGERED.
Immediately, I opened Medium to complain about this like a sane person. 😏
If you’ve used ChatGPT for more than five minutes, you know what I’m talking about. Just open it up and ask the AI chatbot to give you 10 titles on any topic. It’s the same wording, the same formatting, and the same convoluted “I use big words but say nothing of substance” stuff every time.
The reality is that a lot, if not most, bloggers and SEOs write articles for the sake of pleasing the Google algorithm first and foremost.
Yes, Google preaches about E-E-A-T and recently bamboozled everyone with their latest content update. Supposedly, allegedly, because they value human-written stories so much better than AI nonsense. But it’s out there, it’s scoring well, and it’s so blatantly obvious when something is AI-written.
And don’t get me wrong, I also use ChatGPT! I recently asked it to brainstorm some storyline ideas for my custom Sims 2 neighborhood. 😃
However, now that I do content writing for work, I see a lot of AI-generated articles all over the place.
There’s something special about ChatGPT’s ability to regurgitate 10,000 words in less than a minute and say nothing of substance. How is something so smart simultaneously so stupid? Truly a technological marvel!
But beyond the word vomit it produces, the worst part about AI-written articles is that they add (almost) nothing of substance to the end user.
When I opened the “Writing and Editing” section of that website, I was expecting to learn something new that could be helpful for my work and hobby. Instead, I ended up, to quote the bot itself, “delving into the peculiar world of ChatGPT-generated articles.”
I’m not afraid the bots will take my job (please take it; I don’t dream of labor). Although what a twisted reality to live in, where humans have to resort to mundane jobs while artificial intelligence gets to write, paint, and compose music.
Hopefully, we’ll never get to that point. I highly doubt it, seeing how bad the bot is doing at it for now.
Remember when ChatGPT came out and everyone was so impressed by it?
My whole Instagram explore page was filled with reels and carousels about the best prompts for this or that. People were discovering new ways to use AI tools, optimizing their workflows, saving time for better things to do… it was fun! Then our pattern recognition kicked in.
A Google search tells me that OpenAI’s GPT-3 model was trained on 45 TB of data. That sounds like an awful lot for something that forgets what I originally asked it to do after adding three more prompts to the conversation.
So are ChatGPT and other AI writing bots useless?
No, but for the love of other humans being curious on the internet, WRITE YOUR OWN THOUGHTS!
Even if they’re not groundbreaking, even if you don’t know every fancy word in the vocabulary, write like YOU! ChatGPT can rearrange your sentences and add nicer transitional phrases, but it cannot live your experiences.
If you’ve made it this far, I’ll let you steal my ChatGPT content writing strategy so you can use your powers for good!*
- Use ChatGPT to brainstorm ideas with you. It’s not going to come up with anything original, but if you’ve got a number of ideas, you can put them in a prompt and ask the bot to elaborate on them. It’s often not crazy enough, but sometimes it’ll give you a nugget of substance you can use.
- Summarize a really long source for you. I’ve had to write articles on neuroscience. Neuroscience. I can barely count, I didn’t go to art school for this. Put that wall of text in there and ask the bot to accurately extract the key points for you.
- It’s pretty good at paraphrasing, rewording, and, in general, switching up text formatting. I often use it to break down long sentences because, as you can tell, I tend to write lengthy stuff.
- One time, ChatGPT helped me find out the breed of a bird that sings in our local park at night. That was really cool.
* I say as someone with chaotic Neutral alignment
Rant over!
This article was entirely written on a whim, and I only used ChatGPT to make it ironically comment on itself.
Go out there and write your original thoughts; stop feeding garbage into Google. We’ve already filled our physical planet with trash; let’s at least try to keep our digital space clean. ✌️
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