The potential has been born to let A.I. write your online content like SEO, LinkedIn posts, or even complete landing pages.
You’ve probably heard about A.I. doing some pretty amazing things, and you thought that this is interesting, but nothing that you need.
But…
Do you want to write epic articles that people will fight over to read?
Do you want to write great LinkedIn and social media posts that become a lead bomb for your traffic to explode?
Do you want to write SEO that will SpaceX your ranking on Google?
Are you writing or planning to write a book on Kindle or other platforms and love to become the next NYT bestseller Novelist?
Why not let A.I. do the work for you?
Would you do it?
Let’s have a look at 3 possible answers and use the A.I. platform Sudowrite to help us, limited humans, in the process.
Here are 3 roadmaps. Answers to the question if you should use A.I in your writing, or even let it write completely for you.
They’re your ethical compass so to speak.
Would you do it?
It's up to you to make your pick. Maybe you have some other additional thoughts. Love to read them in the comments.
Now let’s see what A.I. thinks of my 3 choices, let her/him/it give a voice.
“I read the recent A.I. study from Google which showed that neural networks could write short stories by themselves. I wondered if they could express the sentiments of a person in a more personal way”, So wrote Medium’s content director Aaron Silvers, who has launched an experiment with a neural network named after a character in the film Her.
Her is a 2013 movie in which the lead character falls in love with his computer operating system.
“If it can write one story, maybe it could write your story,” he wrote. “Maybe it could write your stories.”
The result of Silvers’ experiment is a series of short stories written by Her.
Ok, great. ( This is me writing again). A.I. is telling us that Medium content director Aaron Silver already experimented back in 2016 with A.I. writing a series of short stories.
I would rank this insightful, but not really diving deeper into the ethical landscape and questions.
How did I A.I-generate this short paragraph?
I used Sudowrite. It's an app where you as a writer fill in a block, press wormhole, and A.I spit out text on the right side of the screen. You now can pick the best option, press insert, and the text will now appear in your original text.
Sudowrite is made to actually solve writer's block.
The example tutorial is quite appealing, using an imaginary phrase from an imaginary new Dan Brown novel.
This raised my first doubt. At this stage, A.I. tools like Sudowrite might be better suited to actually write novels. It feels like it still lacks the structural power, there where real experience, creativity, and years of writing come into play.
I could be wrong. As we know, A.I. is self-learning and will be able to spit out perfect Medium pieces about any subject soon.
Let’s copy-paste the text I just wrote and see what Sudowrite answer is on being good enough to write Medium articles instead of helping writer block.
Sudowrite suggests that it can break the writer’s block by providing an interesting alternative thought. This is an opposite approach to every other writing tool out there. Where the others focus on content, Sudowrite focuses on the structure.
Sudowrite works by providing alternative ways of phrasing the same sentence, which often results in a much more interesting sentence.
This is an interesting concept, which tries to shift the focus away from the content. In other words, the goal is not to write anything interesting. The goal is to…
and here it stopped writing.
There you got me Sudowrite, it is in fact the structure you focus on. You see, A.I. is smarter than you think.
This short text actually gave more valuable information for writers liking to try Sudowrite.
Sudowrite rephrases your text, giving alternatives to your structure. You can feed it a paragraph or even a sentence and it will spit out a better one, that you copy-paste, replacing your work.
In that sense, the A.I becomes your writing coach and motivator.
Sudowrite does give answers to questions you pose. This makes it also quite suitable to fill your Quora account solely with A.I. answers.
Here are some more upsides and a few downsides, generated by Sudowrite.
The question is not whether you as a pure wordsmith should be worried. I think the question should be whether blogging platforms like Medium should be worried. (I believe Quora definitely should be worried)
As we’ve learned, Sudowrite can become your writing coach, supporting you in becoming a better writer by giving instant alternatives to phrases and structure. You are still in charge. You can decide to use the better suggestion.
In fact, I did this by morphing some of its suggestions in the head of this story. Got you!
Sudowrite tells us not to worry. Here is her/it/his conclusion;
Rest assured, A.I. will not replace your job anytime soon, because it has other jobs to solve first
Pfff, that’s a relief.
Lucien Lecarme
This article was first published here