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Frank Clover's avatar

Did you run the skill on this article?

AI Skill of the Week's avatar

Good question! I didn't because I already have another custom skill which also embeds the specific tone of voice I wanted for this newsletter. Plus, every newsletter goes through human editing. If I had to work with higher volume of content production, I would for sure include this skill in the workflow ;)

Mark C Mathis IV's avatar

It was written by a middle schooler who learned what the ‘enter’ key was.

Alex Jones's avatar

Ooh that’s a good tip. Yes need something like that. How to make it more “me” and authentically represent my experience, thinking and feeling.

Jacqui A Johnson's avatar

I have been devouring your content since yesterday and I must say it is so valuable. I have created content with some of your tools already so imagine how excited I was today to find this latest one. Thank you.

AI Skill of the Week's avatar

Thanks a lot! Happy to know you're finding value in our recommended skills :))

Fabrice Talbot's avatar

Love what you’re doing!

The voice fine-tuning is a hard one. I personally use three layers like you suggest (my voice, anti-AI-writing, and my beliefs).

The one thing that helps is my feedback loop. I have a daily routine that checks everything in outputs folders and find deltas with my voice style guides (3 above). Then I decide if it needs to enter as corrections.

It slowly builds up 😉

Dan Welsh's avatar

Sounds awesome, but the proof’s in the pudding. Could you share a before & after?

AI Skill of the Week's avatar

I would say it's even faster if you try it and see for yourself :P

David Lupau's avatar

That’s a very useful tool that I am going to try out. Thanks. I usually instruct Claude not to sound like AI but I guess it is naive 😊

AI Skill of the Week's avatar

Unfortunately sometimes you have to reinforce the concept :P

Bravely Becoming's avatar

I am 70 and not techy. I’ve simply instructed Claude to refer to Anne Lamott’s book Good Writing and to use her Rules. Then to please explain to me which rules it used in any editing to my writing so that I can grow in my writing abilities. I’ve told it that I don’t want my writing to sound like AI. I’ve also directed it to Donald Miller’s Story Brand concepts as the reader being the Hero of my articles. Seems to be working out fine.

mygirleatsmayo's avatar

“It’s that AI text has fingerprints — and most people don’t know how to remove them.”

I’ve chosen to see this as intentional irony.

ADG's avatar

This is ironically one of the most ai-generated sounding slop articles I’ve read

Yoni's avatar

My biggest tell for AI is this --> "—". That long dash is only used by AI, your article is full of them.

Appalachian Khaganate's avatar

“Here’s what’s worth knowing” 😆

Tracey's avatar

Exactly! Such phrases are dead giveaways. Drive me crazy to hear them coming out of human mouths on YouTube these days.

Rosé's avatar

Hello,

Are some of y’all still able to write without AI ???

Pls share your unperfect, but human written piece,

Here is mine, I call it *unedited thoughts, If you like to dig in reflecting how we decide to capture and remember moments, this article is one piece of a collection named “field trip and photography”. some other thoughts about filming my trip in Japan are coming soon !!!

Meanwhile, next week, the article “Threshold for Creativity” from the collection “space for art and design” will be about an exhibition I visited last time in Zurich.

Stay tuned !!!

Kindly,

Rosé

Hannah's avatar

The skill is decent having read through it. The post gives me skin crawl with “the problem isn’t that” …. Def needed to run the skill on this post lol

Andrew Smith's avatar

"AI text has fingerprints —" lol

Fairly thorough skill though.

Andrew Smith's avatar

Thanks, the skill looks pretty thorough, personally I think the first emdash in this post should have been left out though.

Nizam Sabirin's avatar

This matches how I use it — AI drafts, but the final voice has to come from me. A 'skill' to fix the AI voice still feels like outsourcing the fix instead of doing the edit yourself. The real humanizer is just... rereading it and asking 'would I actually say this?

Supriya Subramaniam's avatar

Once you see it, you cant unsee !