There is no doubt that AI can help a lot when writing documents. There is also no doubt that it can be detrimental to both quality and the writing process if the AI-powered tool doesn’t have a user experience tailored to the task at hand.
Generated Text and Its Downsides
We live in a world of AI overload, and many tools promise to take the “pain” of writing away by generating tons of text at the press of a button. If that’s what you want to have, great. If that’s what the world needs—lots of similar-sounding text advocating products in an almost sincere and clever-sounding voice—doubtful. Unless you’re a spammer, then the world of AI text generators is a wet dream come true. Hey, you can even create tons of comments with genuinely looking users that bait interaction or suggest quality that isn’t there.
When using chat systems to help me work on my writing tasks, I quickly got frustrated that there is no granular change. You can create posts with a prompt. When you tell the machine to change only a few structural things, it keeps creating totally new texts with other annoyances. And you have to wait for the whole text to change.
“AI-ding” the Writer
I’m a writer, and I love writing. I don’t feel that writing is a chore. To me, it feels like painting with letters and words. I love keeping my texts simple and to the point. I don’t want to impress with overly elaborate voice and vocabulary. And I don’t want to be “excited” and “amazed” by things all the time. Unless you put almost as much effort into writing the prompt as into writing the post, the voice of chat systems out there is a terribly excitable salesperson.
Writing Gets Better with Reviews
As a professional writer, I learned about the power of a good editor. When I wrote my books, I had both technical editors, making sure that what I wrote made sense, and grammar and voice editors, keeping me in check when I made mistakes or when my sentences became overly elaborate. Like this last one. Lately, I’ve started using EditGPT as a tool to aid my writing. Instead of being an AI text generator, it’s a writing and reviewing tool, which allows you to change, edit, and refine what you wrote. The interface is pretty straightforward, and if you’ve collaboratively edited in Word with reviewers in the past, it’s utterly familiar. The only difference is that there is no delay of a few days that you get with a human reviewer.
The other bit that I really like about EditGPT is that it’s keyboard-driven, and it allows me to alter parts of the text rather than recreate full texts over and over again.
So, if you also feel like writing and keeping your own voice and style but want an instant reviewer to keep you in check, why not try EditGPT , too? It represents to me what AI should be: a helper to hone your craft and challenge you to do better rather than giving you something to publish as if it’s your own work.
