This Phrase Gives Away AI-Generated Content For Me At a Single Glance
Recently I took on part-editorship of a large publication. One of my favorite parts of the new job is to headhunt: I look for good stories and try to convince the people writing them to send their awesome articles over to me and the publication I help run, instead of just publishing them into the ether. While this is incredibly rewarding and has sharpened my editorial skills, the problem became clear almost at once. There is a lot of hay and very few needles to be found. Worse: much of that hay is artificially generated.
I have sympathy when I click into a poorly-titled article and find the content is not quite good enough to make my recruitment cut. We’ve all been there. Nobody is born a perfect writer. We’re human, after all. We try, we improve, we fail, we try again.
My sympathy quickly diminishes when I suspect the article has been completely generated by AI. It’s a waste of my time, it’s a waste of any potential readers’ time, and I genuinely believe it’s a waste of the author’s time. What does the author hope to gain from generating a lousy article that has no substance or value for readers? They won’t grow an audience or get any buyers. I truly do not understand the point.
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