THere's been a lot of conversation about AI and writing in this community. I've been working with Writer.com for a few months, and I'd just like to provide some observations. Feel free to debate/discuss with me in thread or in DM, whichever you prefer. These observations are in no particular order and (mostly) relate to my experiences with Writer.com. Anyone else who uses other software is free to add in their 2c for perspective • AI can sometimes make unsubstantiated claims. I have witnessed at least 3 articles where it mentions a statistic (e.g. 58% of sales people believe X), but doesn't include a link or where it pulled that info, and so I have to track it down myself. Often leads nowhere, as the AI seemingly generated that statistic at random • It has trouble with product comparison articles, as it does not know your product nor that of competitors. It doesn't know which features are important, or your target market. It doesn't know that you prefer enterprise customers over SMB, and even if you include the keyword "enterprise" in there it will sometimes drop SMB just because its mentioned a lot online. Note that we had been offered a premium template that introduced actual machine learning that would learn more about your business the more info you feed into it, but it was a higher tier and we didn't have the budget • If you stress it out by making it cover a really niche topic the AI may get repetitive and repeat the same paragraph multiple times in the same article with minor variations. • I can't use the AI with articles where I have a source or am working off an interview, because there's no way to include that info in the builder. It just writes based on what it sees off the net. I have to write interview-based articles from scratch • Grammar is always impeccable • Building an article is a multi-step process. First you have to run the headline builder. Then you have to run the outline builder. Then you take the suggestions from the outline builder and put it in the article builder. Still faster than waiting for a writer to finish a first draft. • The AI seems to work best when writing articles about 1) general knowledge topics 2) topics that already have a lot of coverage 3) articles that appeal to wide audiences • When I stick to those topics, the content can be amazing. It suggests subheads that never would've occurred to me before and those articles require minimal editing on my part ** Update: Writer.com gave me Beta access to something they're working on called a Blog Builder, which is pretty cool. It basically condenses the blog creation process so that you no longer have to run multiple builders one after the other. Just put the seed info into the Blog Builder template and it generates the finished article a few seconds later.

@gentle-dress-37057 I think everything you’re pointing out is pretty par for the course with AI writing tools. It’s generating the probabilistically most likely next word. There is no reasoning or thought. It’s good for general purpose content. We have something similar at Letterdrop and it faces similar challenges. https://www.loom.com/share/6392315123cf4050ac819d93f207d2ab

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you're awesome. Thank you!

@silly-pizza-63127, I can't tell the difference between your snip and a random blog I land on through Google search. There's a lesson in there.