I keep seeing posts and practices that suggest using AI as a starting point to create a first draft in record time. Then use your human intelligence to edit that draft to your needs. Perhaps it’s just me, but that process does not tend to save me time, or produce the kinds of results I’m after — quality and expedience. Here’s what I’m getting at: I think AI is a better editor than an initial drafting tool when it comes to writing. When I try to start writing with AI, I have to create a prompt to have AI produce a draft. Certainly, I can add reference sites or other inputs to help refine the prompt toward an output that is a potentially workable draft. That’s time spent crafting a prompt. Here’s what I don’t like about that: Even inputting tone of voice instructions into the prompt, the initial draft output doesn’t have my tone, or the brand’s tone; it still needs quite a bit of massaging. That’s time spent where I have to edit. Editing the draft AI has produced leaves me feeling like I’m trying to make something work from what’s been given me instead of starting with solid ideas that need editing to tighten it up and ensure it flows well to it’s point or call-to-action. AI as an editor, however, has been a much better experience for me. I’ll write my first draft or an outline of ideas then save myself time by having AI refine my writing to make it more concise or come up with paragraph transitions that I hadn’t thought of. Approaching it this way tends to allow your own tone of voice and writing style (which is an output of your thinking style and communication style of expressing those ideas) to come through while the AI tech shaves time off of the process of specific word choices and sentence structures. All in all, I think AI in writing is a time-saving editing tool vs. a creative starting point. Comments are closed.
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