I went on a quest to find out if AI is already secretly writing a lot of the stuff we read online. I found more than I ever imagined.
From online recipes to mattress reviews to celebrity horoscopes, human writing is fast becoming the exception on the internet, rather than the rule.
My story today: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/05/05/ai-spam-websites-books-chatgpt/
@willoremus The claim that “everyone is reading AI-written articles” seems bunk, at least if they mean articles *fully* written by AI
Technical writing, for sure. Astrology and celeb bios, for sure. But fiction, poetry and journalism, no, or at least not without *significant* human involvement
There’s no way to tell if an article was “written” with AI and then cleaned up by a human. What if an AI generates the H2s? AI written? Spell checkers? SEO keyword optimizers? We’ve had “AI" for decades
I've been using AI to help with writing for a while - not to write things for me but if I'm hitting a brick wall or the like. I'm sure there's folks just using it to churn out posts, but I feel like a lot of what I've seen people talking about using it for has been helping with the writing process when stuck
@THLiterary @willoremus It works well for brainstorming, just like wordhippo works as a great thesaurus
It’s also good for writers who cover a particularly narrow beat. They can pump in all their heds and leads and see what they are missing — or what people are searching for — tools like questiondb.io are useful for that too
Articles are definitely getting cranked out completely by AI, as that news investigation showed, but nothing good … that I know of … yet
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