AI is here. Hop on the bandwagon!

We all know it, because media won’t stop telling us, that we will all be replaced at work by AI. Arrrghhhh! Writers are surely going to be one of the first for the chopping block and just playing around with AI tools such as ChatGPT makes this all too clear – I can see my own face reflected in the screen, flickering between awe, amazement and horror.

BUT we’re currently in a brief window where the Writers and Editors that keep moving with the times can harness the power of this revolution to supercharge their own output and maybe make themselves indispensable as the experts for getting the best out of AI. Well, that’s what I’m clinging on to. If left to its own devices, at the moment, AI will churn out slightly eerie, generic, dull content that may fall foul of copyright laws, and in the case of proposal writing it will fail to win any bids alone (until it can check for compliance, monitor the budget, negotiate with sub-contractors etc etc). For a while yet it still needs sparky human expertise to give the right instructions and then the tweaking, editing and tailoring afterwards that comes from our experience and, well, from being human. At this early point in the revolution it still feels a bit like cheating to use AI to help us with our work, but we need to get over this because our competitors have and they’re producing better content in a fraction of the time.

Through a series of posts I intend to provide a brief summary of the best tools available for writers and editors. If it benefits another single individual, small business or non-profit, then that would be fantastic as the worry is that these are most likely to struggle to keep up-to-date during this AI revolution.

(In hindsight I probably should have used ChatGPT to write this.)