Dropped $200 on an AI writing assistant and it wrote a whole article in 3 minutes

I finally gave in and paid for one of those AI writing tools. I used it to draft a blog post about smart home gadgets and it slammed out 1500 words in under 3 minutes. The grammar was clean but the tone felt a little robotic. Did anyone else find you have to rewrite half of what these things spit out?

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bettys512mo ago

Wow, that's a lot of money for a robot writer! I've been messing around with free versions and the tone thing drives me crazy. I think the bigger issue nobody talks about is how these tools can't really understand context or voice. You write about smart home stuff, but the AI probably wrote it like a generic tech blog instead of sounding like you. Doesn't that kind of defeat the purpose of saving time if you have to rewrite the whole thing anyway?

simonp4719d ago

Start with the free ones messing up your tone and it's the same pattern everywhere - people buying shortcuts that end up being detours. I notice it all the time with grocery delivery apps promising to save hours, but you spend twenty minutes picking substitutes for stuff they didn't have. Or those meal kit boxes that take longer to cook than just going to the store. The whole selling point is convenience, but somehow you end up doing more work to fix what the shortcut broke. Same with these writing tools - you pay to get rough drafts that need so much editing you'd have been faster typing from scratch. It's like paying someone to half-dig your food for you. Not sure when we all decided saving ten minutes was worth losing control over the actual result.

jesse_fisher2mo ago

Oh man, I actually just read something about this the other day. A blogger I follow said she spent like 6 hours fixing AI drafts before she just gave up and went back to writing herself. Kinda makes you wonder if these tools are more hype than help for actual content.