A Bot Ate My Article
I have been sharing writing tasks with bots here at WA and it’s been going very well. I watched the video showing you can give the bots a few prompts and they can turn it into a whole article and all you must do is research and tweak it. I was amazed and I couldn’t wait to try it out for myself. It was every bit as good as they said and I loved that.
Naturally, I started doing my own experiments with the WA bots. I would draft an article and paste it into the bots, and they would return a fuller version. They would incorporate relative content and fill in the empty spaces. My article came back better but it usually needed to be tweaked a little. And I always had my original article to refer to so I could easily reedit my article and put it back on track.
Two weeks ago riding a writing high, I decided to type my article directly into the bot. I typed my article of 750 words into the bot and requested it to create an article of 1500 words. The bot ate my article, and shortchanged me on the introduction. (I hadn’t written one and neither did it.) Fortunately, it did the outline. Bots excel at doing outlines, whereas I don’t, if there is an outline in this article you can thank a bot.
As I read the bot -generated article, I was extremely disappointed, it was nothing like the life-enriching, compelling and informative work I had envisioned. It returned a complete Bot article. A bot article is something filled with bot speak. Bot speak initially sounds good. But as you read it you notice it’s repetitive, not in the words it uses but, in the ideas conveyed. You can have the same idea written in different ways in your article. And also, the way the bot writes can be unrelatable. It’s like when you go to a market and some of the things written on the products are directly translated from another language into English, your read the English and it doesn't really say anything. I read my article and thought, no problem I’ll refer to the original but there was no original. I had fed the original to the Bot. It took me a minute to recover.
As someone who loves to write, the bots are the best tools I have ever experienced. And yet the moral of this story is do not type your original content into the Bot, because the one time that you do the bot may surprise you with its own creation.
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I back up all the optional content, the outline, and the original AI article, and then I start tweaking them.
It is about how to present this AI content; as long as it is checked and cross-referenced, voice, experience, style, and emotions are inputted. Thus, it is a polished piece ready to serve a purpose.
Great content blog post here, Kundi :)
I hadn't thought about backing up the outline. That's is a great idea. I'm going to do that from now on. Thank you. :)
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great and informative background, me with not Morden tools to use yet BUT at currently with one computer, getting there in WA, yes tools are very important, my next task to finalize with my Budget and money matters, the system I have to be familiarize with before I send a blog, still learning and training from blogs and posts of friends in WA in my connects, they help me greatly and my appreciation to you all,,
nice article,
cheers
Clotilda
Thank you. I look forward to seeing your progress. I don't know much about most of the tools either, but the ones I do know I really like. And I am going in for more training so I'm looking forward to improving my skill set.
Yes thanks, Im learning as you too at the moment, the tools to use,
Cheers
Clo