MARCH MADNESS: THE AI WRITING ENGINE EDIT

Once upon a time, there was a writer who had previously blogged and tweeted a lot and loved doing so but then ~went pro~ (started making a few pennies per post for clients) and had zero inclinations to write her own stuff in her vanishingly spare free time.

It's a tale as old as time. I think it happens to every writer? Anyway. Now I'm a mom (woo) and I have even less time (somehow) and yet I need to get back to blogging....to stay relevant, or something. ????

Here's my problem/curse/blessing/obsession: AI engines are here, and they're rad. And they're all anybody's talking about. And I feel like some people are looking sideways at what I do (write) and thinking some pretty obvious HAY BUT CAN THE BOT DO WHAT REBECCA DO??? thoughts.

To give some love to my angelic clients, just in case anyone happens across this: I don't think that anyone I'm working with is seriously considering outsourcing their writing department to AI software, at least, not anytime soon. As I hope to talk about ad nauseam throughout my March! Madness! UniqueIdea, human writers just bring an extra je ne sais quoi to the table that no bot can replicate. Possibly the most biased sentence I've typed recently, but if I'm dying on a hill, it's gonna be that one.

But there is a tiny worried voice at the back of my very worried brain that's, like, HEY REBECCA: WHAT IF THE BOTS DO TRY TO REPLACE YOU?

And after watching yet another excellent piece of reporting about AI, it occurred to me (again) that it was high time I took to the web to (attempt to) position myself as a writer who's modern, cool, in-the-know, and ... good with AI.

But good blogging takes time (said the copywriter, who often charges by the hour); and I don't have much of that.

So I'm leaning fully into a) the stuff I'm doing anyway, and b) lazy content.

OR GENIUS CONTENT AHEM. Which brings me back to the H1....

WELCOME TO MARCH MADNESS THE REAL ONE THE ONE THAT'S POPULAR AND INTERESTING AND CLICK HERE!!!!!

(That's for the Google SEO botbots who are gonna assess this blog and rank me right up with the other March Madness stuff that'll be happening in March, because I will obviously have no competition for the rarely-used-in-march SEO term "March Madness", oh god this idea is terrible.)

(The benefit of my committing to zero editing and stream-of-consciousness typing is that you get to watch me realize how shit my sparks of delusion are in real time)

ANYWAY my idea: I'm going to pit the 10 most popular AI text generation engines out there against each other. I'm going to come up with some easy-to-challenging-to-goofy prompts and tests, make them all do the thing, and report back on how well they all work.

We'll start now! All text below is here with the help of my current best AI friend ChatGPT (edited and tweaked, because I can't help myself):

What are the top AI text engines available as of March 2023?

1. Jasper AI
2. Frase
3. WriterSonic
4. Copy.AI
5. CopySmith
6. Scalenut
7. Writer
8. Hypoteneuse AI
9. Article Forge
10. Ryter

And, likely, others, as I get into the next blogs and realize that there are other good ones out there. ChatGPT, for example, is not on this list.

What am I going to have these AI engines do? Write me fairy tales; write me meta descriptions. Make my job easier; surprise me; condense articles for me; generate a recipe for an impossible scenario. We'll figure it out.

Which AI engine will come out on top?

Will I abandon my current AI best friend (ChatGPT, which I use every dang day as of right now) and run off into the sunset with another?

WHO KNOWS BUT OMG AM I ON THE EDGE OF MY SEAT.

But, more importantly, I wrote this in 19.3 minutes, which is as much time as I had today. STAY TUNED for tomorrow's matchup, featuring the wiles and styles of Jasper.ai and Rytr, and possibly a custom graphic!!!!!****

***Depending on how my work goes tomorrow; I make no promises.