Is It ChatGPT or Is It Me?. When you can’t tell if it’s your brain…

When you can’t tell if it’s your brain or the bot doing the talking.

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“Is it live, or is it Memorex?”. That was a popular tagline for blank Memorex cassette tapes back when cassette tapes were a thing.

It basically was letting you know that their cassette tapes are so good that you can’t tell if it’s a recording you are listening to or a live concert, and you are sitting right there in the audience.

It was great branding!

Today, it’s like we are in a similar situation. Except, it’s in writing. It seems everyone is using ChatGPT or Claude to do their article writing.

I think AI is a great tool to fix up your grammar, correct some misspellings, and even to create better SEO optimized Titles and subtitles if you suck at those. But writing entire articles is not my cup of tea.

When I write a piece, any short or long form piece for Medium, Substack, or Audacity Magazine, I try to make sure it either sounds like me or has enough of my personality to not be mistaken for AI content.

Sounds great. Most of us do that, I’m sure.

But lately, I’ve been running these same articles I’ve written through AI detectors like ZeroGPT, Quillbot, CopyLeaks, and a few others.

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