💬 Is This Me or Chat-GPT?
Your writing style is factual and concise. It emphasizes presenting key details, events, or information in a straightforward and informative manner. The tone is typically neutral and objective, with a focus on clarity and relevance. This style can be effectively applied to various topics and subjects, making it versatile and suitable for different forms of communication or reporting.
After sharing a handful of my articles with Chat-GPT, the above is its summary of what it believes to be my writing style.
AI Written Content
Steemit's always had a problem with some content creators - the nature of the reward system encourages people to share content regularly and it's even been suggested that if you don't post something every day then you'll struggle to get noticed.
Writing something regularly that's worth reading is hard work. Writing something worth reading at all is hard work and it's not unusual for one of my posts to take a couple of hours to compose - and even then, you could argue that it's not worth reading. But here you are anyway, so thanks for that 👍
This led many of the lazy / scammer variety to simply plagiarise the work of others - maybe using a translator, word changer or video transcript to dodge plagiarism checkers. Whilst requiring effort to detect, the scammers could be exposed with a high level of confidence through some thorough detective work.
As I've mentioned before, AI is not as easy to expose and certainly can't be done with the level of confidence that I'd demand, especially if AI can be trained to write like a human as many articles around the web suggest.
Can AI Write Like Me?
So I thought I'd put Chat-GPT through its paces and after a bit of training, (I thought) it was ready.
Since I love my sport, a football match report seemed like the perfect place to start and it made sense if I got it to write a report on a match that I'd watched. So I chose Brighton v. Liverpool from Sunday afternoon.
The first effort was poor and having described my writing style as "factual". I was disappointed that it said Salah scored in the 50th minute when both of his goals had been scored in the 1st half. I also wonder if I'd confused it by looking at some Rugby commentary beforehand which it really struggled with.
So I decided to do a bit more re-training with a few more match reports that I'd written. Having thought that I'd trained Chat-GPT quite well, it told me that I'd only shared 1 match report with it so I gave it a few more.
I then provided it with the Brighton v. Liverpool Match Commentary so it had all of the details - all of the facts that it could turn into a Match Report. A Factual, Concise, Neutral, Objective, Clear and relevant match report which emphasises the key details, events and information - all with the objective of sounding like me.
The Output
After a bit of tinkering, you can read the output here:
⚽ Celebrating Premier League Excitement: Brighton and Liverpool Battle to a Thrilling 2-2 Draw
What do you think?
Why Do This?
There are a couple of reasons behind this experiment.
I'm curious. I want to know if AI can be trained to write content like me - especially given my feeling that I have a rather unique writing style. (One point to note is that some of the articles I shared breached Open AI's Terms of Service - presumably because I swear too much.)
I think that well written, SEO optimised, AI generated articles can be used to attract new users to the platform via Search Engines. If each match can quickly and accurately be summarised, accompanied with information on how to sign up to Steemit then a strong community, built around a particular topic (football in this example) can be grown - especially if people are introduced without the promise of making them rich.
Whilst I didn't go all-out with the SEO in that article, it'll be interesting to see where it ends up in the rankings by the time this post pays out.
I'd like your thoughts on point 1 in particular - Does the article I shared sound like me?
I have my opinion but I'll save it until I've heard yours.
First of all, I am undecided. The article sounds somehow gorilly, but not complete. But I have to say that I miss your certain sarcasm - and I have no idea whether you use it at all on sporting topics. I have never read such a post because it simply doesn't interest me.
Otherwise, I'm probably not telling you anything new when I cite "Claude" as an example for even much better AI text generators...
That's not one that I was familiar with. It didn't want to be very helpful in this context:
I am reading something on Steemit after ages but I quickly felt the lack of the-gorilla-tone in that article.
What makes a piece of content unique or "alive" are the experiences, feelings and expression style of the creator/author.
AI fails to simulate that.
Your style is definitely concise and factual but sarcastic humour makes it alive.
You can also ask AI to immitate your sarcastic or humorous tone but it still gives away itself with the fancy vocab.
You are a native English but AI's vocab is fancier(loaded/forced/unreal) than you. 😂
Nah.. it was too perfect. Felt like I was reading a sport magazine article. As weisser-rabe correctly pointed out we're kind of missing that crucial "sarcasm" flair & the "Mr. Sherlock Holmes" vibes that usually spices up your pieces!
But your investigation is successful, it is just 17% AI written according to Zerogpt! 😄 Congrats, now you have a hard job on Steemit.
Wow - that just goes to show how bad these AI tools are. The post is 100% AI written after I spent a bit of time configuring it.
That's the feeling I get with all AI generated content - it lacks something despite trying to include it. It tries to use "exciting" language, without capturing the excitement of the moment. It tries to use "emotional" language, without capturing the emotion.
I'm intrigued by what more can be done with it still (going back to point 2 of why I'm playing with it) and it's generated an article for Arsenal v. Man City which I'll share later. I think it's better than the Brighton v. Liverpool report because I asked it to include emojis which add a bit more personality. That's the word I was trying to get to above... AI lacks personality.
Exactly. That is basically what it is. AI is best at taking our ideas to the next level. I think in the years ahead, we can't move forward without AI, but we've gotta figure out where to set some boundaries. However, this tools are quite good at capturing no-brainer articles in an instant.
Haha, what I think? I read it alright and this is what I think, personally
That didn’t sound like you.. maybe it was just 15% you.😂
It was so straight to the point, kinda boring which is very much unlike you.
As a person who has been following you since you got here, reading most of your football posts, it was easy for me to know that wasn’t you. The sarcasm, the frequent “diversion from main topic to talk of other fun stuff” and some other things just weren’t there.
You could have a point if you said “oh he read it already with the notion that I didn’t write it myself, so it’s normal for him to find faults in it”.. but I tell you man, if I came across this anywhere, posted by one of your accounts without you telling me it’s AI, I’d still find it suspicious.
I might think perhaps you got too lazy and mrs-gorilla wrote it for you?.. or one of the little-gorillas👀.. or your charm wore off.. 🤷🏾♂️
Idk it just felt off.. but it was a very good post!
If only I could write posts like that one😂
Hahaha wait up, I read other comments after posting my own comment and I see we’re all basically saying the same things here 😄 cool. We know you Mr.Gorilla!!