3 Reasons Why You Shouldn’t Use an AI to Generate Articles
Surprisingly, the potential for a robot uprising is not one of them.
You may have seen ads for services like texta.ai, which promises to generate web copy, blog posts, articles, and any other text you might need that you don’t feel like writing yourself. And you might think this can be a time-saving miracle and potential cash cow, being able to generate countless articles at a speed rivaling Tim Denning. (Seriously, how does that man do it?) More articles means more eyes, more engagement, and more income. For the meager investment of a couple of hundred dollars, you too just might go viral on this platform.
Sounds too good to be true, right? Well, yeah, it probably is. Here’s three reasons why you should save your money and write the old-fashioned way of actually translating your thoughts into words on the page.
The AI is not sentient, and therefore no communication is actually happening.
In the mid-1960s, MIT Professor Joseph Weizenbaum created a program named ELIZA to demonstrate how superficial communication is between humans and computers. ELIZA operates as a primitive psychoanalytical parrot, using pattern matching to prompt the user to type about their live and feelings. There was not understanding on the part of the program. It merely took things that the user…
