Interestiing situation I'm in today!
One of my clients is an SEO company. I started with them as a freelancer 6 years ago, but as they grew and I started doing other things, I started to hire out the work. I started with freelancers, then hired someone local to do the work in order to speed up the process & guarantee quality.
I've been trying to get the process as fast and error-free as possible. Recently, GPT-3 tools like ChatGPT have allowed instant text generation.
Of course, I have to be forthcoming about my use of these tools, as to do otherwise would be unethical. I have my employee create over 10,000 words of edited, original content. I brag about my process and how it can clear their content backlog. I use ChatGPT to organize the content of articles found on the Web, which saves a ton of time when researching & creating content.
The client comes back and tells me that they pitch clients manually created content so they don't think I should have my employee use any sort of AI tools. (I understand why; people buying SEO don't value content if it's written by an AI) They run one of the articles through GPTZero and it says it's entirely written by AI. (It wasn't, but whatever)
So I decide to rewrite the content myself so that I could get it done today. Whatever, I'm a fast writer.
First two pieces of content are rewritten successfully. Then I go to the third piece of content.
GPTZero detects my rewritten content as "entirely written by AI".
I rewrite it 5 more times and I can't get it to budge. I use Hemingway editor, I split up sentences, I fuse sentences, I choose different words, I erase the whole thing and rewrite it again...
Nope.
I get it down to "moderate chance of being written by AI". Back to the drawing board. It's not getting done today, I'll have to wait for my employee to come back!
I'm now concerned that the client is going to retroactively ask for refunds on any content "detected as AI" because apparently they've been pitching their clients manually written content. (I'm not sure if I should give them.) These AI detectors are clearly not reliable, but clients won't know the difference and they may accuse my client of lying to them about the nature of the content created!
Thing is, I know that this client is going to prune away. They have to eventually, right? Surely AI can produce better SEO-optimized content more quickly. But as long as they can successfully pitch "human created content" they will, only because the value of human-created content is higher than that of AI-created content regardless of factual accuracy, SEO impact, or style... and that's because the clients can just do it themselves.
Moral of the story... I don't have one!
One of my clients is an SEO company. I started with them as a freelancer 6 years ago, but as they grew and I started doing other things, I started to hire out the work. I started with freelancers, then hired someone local to do the work in order to speed up the process & guarantee quality.
I've been trying to get the process as fast and error-free as possible. Recently, GPT-3 tools like ChatGPT have allowed instant text generation.
Of course, I have to be forthcoming about my use of these tools, as to do otherwise would be unethical. I have my employee create over 10,000 words of edited, original content. I brag about my process and how it can clear their content backlog. I use ChatGPT to organize the content of articles found on the Web, which saves a ton of time when researching & creating content.
The client comes back and tells me that they pitch clients manually created content so they don't think I should have my employee use any sort of AI tools. (I understand why; people buying SEO don't value content if it's written by an AI) They run one of the articles through GPTZero and it says it's entirely written by AI. (It wasn't, but whatever)
So I decide to rewrite the content myself so that I could get it done today. Whatever, I'm a fast writer.
First two pieces of content are rewritten successfully. Then I go to the third piece of content.
GPTZero detects my rewritten content as "entirely written by AI".
I rewrite it 5 more times and I can't get it to budge. I use Hemingway editor, I split up sentences, I fuse sentences, I choose different words, I erase the whole thing and rewrite it again...
Nope.
I get it down to "moderate chance of being written by AI". Back to the drawing board. It's not getting done today, I'll have to wait for my employee to come back!
I'm now concerned that the client is going to retroactively ask for refunds on any content "detected as AI" because apparently they've been pitching their clients manually written content. (I'm not sure if I should give them.) These AI detectors are clearly not reliable, but clients won't know the difference and they may accuse my client of lying to them about the nature of the content created!
Thing is, I know that this client is going to prune away. They have to eventually, right? Surely AI can produce better SEO-optimized content more quickly. But as long as they can successfully pitch "human created content" they will, only because the value of human-created content is higher than that of AI-created content regardless of factual accuracy, SEO impact, or style... and that's because the clients can just do it themselves.
Moral of the story... I don't have one!
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