"WITHOUT using any SOFTWARE or AI." You have been warned!

Employers start to take watching out for pure AI content quite seriously

“WITHOUT using any SOFTWARE or AI.”

The explosion in AI software for writers has not taken long to alert employers to that extra line now viewed in job ads. And with the right reasons, as proofing is trying to go out the window to support unique but AI generated text.

“ChatGPT has crossed one million users within a week of its launch.”

A sobering fact on the growth of AI in just the last year: It’s estimated that over 85% of internet users are engaging in some form of AI-based technology.

Much of that 85% is from the use of chatbots but staying on its use in writing content. So many employers are now cracking onto the saturated usage of AI tools. I mentioned in a previous post on the LinkedIn group how easy it is to spot.

Very easy...

Especially if attempted by a non-native English speaker writing for content for a website. I can’t speak German, so I could use a tool Cedille to write up text. Hah… If I tried to write German using an AI tool to write content, it would make the German editor laugh at my attempt to fool that editor.

You need a grasp of style and grammar to spot things like:

- Fluffy and superfluous sentences that could be shortened, i.e. redundant words,
- Repeats of prepositions and other 2 or 3 word phrases throughout an article (BIG ISSUE WITH AI),
- Sketchy facts that generalise a laser focused topic,
- A mix of US and UK style and grammar, an absolute mess.

If you use AI content and think proofing is no longer needed, sorry, you will be caught out.

Don’t do it. Use AI tools to improve or help get a draft moving ahead.

From there stick to what is needed to craft an article: speak to the target reader, identify with your audience using examples, know when to address different personalities, get the facts right and back up with quotes if needed to support any facts, avoid regurgitating similar web copy i.e. don’t plagiarise.

I see this all the time. And have sadly had to fire writers because of its practice.

Don’t be the writer that gets fired because of sloppy use of AI tools. Use those tools to enhance, get inspired, and to help craft your 1st draft, and continue to get more ideas. After all, they are basically search engines that draw from reading internet web pages (just like us, AI reads to learn) and then delivers unique text.

But it lacks personality, and that’s where you come in.

Keep writing!