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.