AI Content Vs A Top 1% Writer

The results are in! See an in-depth comparison between ChatGPT writing and a top-tier freelance writer

Dan Martin
𝐀𝐈 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐤𝐬.𝐢𝐨
9 min readJan 29, 2024

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AI is fascinating…

Finally we have a machine that talks.

But because it sounds a bit like us means a lot of people are confused about AI...

  • writers fear that AI will replace them.
  • businesses think that they can offload written content creation to AI tools.

Both of these are wrong for one simple reason:

Writing that comes straight out of AI is nowhere near good enough in terms of readability and quality.

And more importantly…

AI is terrible at coming up with new ideas and insights without heavy prompting.

On its own, or with little prompting, tools like ChatGPT simply spew out a mix-match of what’s already out there, using different phrasing each time to give the illusion of being “creative”.

As a top 1% freelance writer with nearly a decade of experience, I’ve spent hundreds of hours playing around with writing tools like ChatGPT and Claude over the…

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