User wants a button in ChatGPT to automatically remove all adverbs from generated text, as AI-generated content often contains too many.
Do your writing skills matter if AI can generate content 100X faster than you? If you want to write anything that people will read, it does. The fascinating part about the current obsession with AI content generation is that everyone is thrilled about creating it. But who is thrilled about consuming it? Not anyone I know. In fact, everyone seems to hate AI-generated comments that summarize posts and add nothing to conversations. What is the point? For me, the thrill of writing an 800-word blog post quickly became fear and loathing right after it was generated and I read it. How can there be so many words and yet so little content? Why are there so many em dashes? Why does it not use en dashes? Did anyone ever use the word “delve” three years ago? Not that I remember., Good writing isn’t about words. It’s about ideas. The best writing delivers value and leaves an impression. And some writing can even be art. No machine can fully replicate this. Well, unless we become machines, which is a possibility but not our current reality. So, how do you stand out and rise above the AI-generated slop clogging up the internet? Here’s what I recommend: 1. Keep it simple, but make it memorable Yeah, you’ve heard this before, and I know it’s hard after the document goes through 37 revisions. And don’t get me started on the legal team. However, we all know that simplicity wins in a world of information overload. Try breaking big ideas into smaller chunks. Big sentences into small ones. And replace big words with smaller ones. 2. Write like you speak But don’t speak like you write. AI struggles to replicate a genuine human tone. It doesn’t understand colloquialism at all. It has no idea that we get on the bus, on the train, but into the taxi. All context is lost on AI. Make your writing personal and relatable by making it conversational. Ask rhetorical questions, make jokes, and you might even throw in a mistake or two. AI would never do that. 3. Don’t make me read Write in a non-linear way so it can be scanned. I only want to read the parts that are important to me. We are all busy and don’t want long pros and detailed explanations. In business writing, we want to get to the point. Headlines and subheads should summarize the paragraph or section. Keep writing as concise as possible, and make every word justify its existence. 4. Remove all the adverbs Can someone put a button somewhere in ChatGPT that does this? Thanks. 5. Vary your approach AI is terrible at this. The copy it spits out is more uniform and organized than a Fascist military parade. I hate it. Use your judgment and creative sensibilities to vary your approach to keep the reader interested. Use a long sentence and then use a short one. Use big words and then small words. Predictable writing dies unread. Drop surprises like easter eggs throughout your piece. 6. Perfection is suspicious Leave rough edges. Perfection is for machines, not people. When Impressionist painters first showed their works in Paris, the audience thought that the paintings were unfinished. But that’s what’s so beautiful about them. 7. Kill the robot voice No one says “furthermore" and "moreover," so why would you write it? Kill all the robot words. Write like you're telling your friend a story over a cappuccino. Robot words get repeated frequently in corporate documents even though they shouldn’t. Be different. Be human. 8. Use your spam-in-the-can (human brain) I use AI all the time to get ideas and create a first draft. I will use any tool available if it makes it more efficient. The business world is competitive. Why put yourself at a disadvantage? However, I would never publish an AI-generated post without at least removing all the “delves.” I have found that AI is great at some tasks, but it’s not a replacement for the creativity that comes from your spam-in-the-can (human brain), and it definitely can not write with any real swagger.