Writing a Medium Article with ChatGPT: My Brutally Honest Review

My blog assistant was almost fired.

Image by Javier López from Pixabay

Come on, fess up if you want to publish an article or book with the push of a button.

The process to get that outcome with AI is just starting.

My goal was to have ChatGPT write an article in my voice.

As a test, I created an article with ChatGPT.

Here is what I discovered.

Pay for quality

The first thing I did was pay for ChatGPT 4. There are many reasons to pay for this subscription. They are worth it if you’re serious about using it as a writing tool.

1. ChatGPT 3.5 is more inclined to daydream or go off on weird tangents. These are known as “AI hallucinations”. ChatGPT 4 adheres to the data and is more reliable.
2. ChatGPT 3.5 can only remember 8,000 words and ChatGPT 4 can remember 64,000 words. I wanted to analyze entire stories without being restricted by the amount of data I needed to input.
3. ChatGPT 4 acts more like a human brain and it can mimic a writing voice which is perfect for this experiment.

I turned off image generation and web searching in ChatGPT since it increased the speed. Rarely do you need to turn off functionality in…