4 Things to Keep in Mind While Writing with AI

Plus, The AI Writer course is out today

Hey - Sami here.

Welcome back to Savvy Snack.

Today is August 6th and I’m keeping my promise:

(Yes. The AI Writer course is out)

I’ve attached it at the end of this email. Have it there.

Now, back to the main point of the email…

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We all use AI for writing at some point. Some use tools like Hemingway. Others use mega prompts for ChatGPT.

If you’re one of the latter, then…

Do these for better outputs:

1: Always consider a human touch (But how?)

Everyone talks about adding a human touch when writing with AI, but what is it?

Anything that makes your writing look human.

Allow jargon in your writing and people will feel it’s rubbish.

Use passive voice and people will think it’s AI written.

The main thing in writing is simplicity.

It helps in readability. It helps understand the words faster.

If you want your writing to seem human, ask AI to do these:

• Use simple words

• Use short sentences

• Use active voice. Avoid passive voice

• Avoid using adverbs

• Specify the tone specific to an audience

• Use fewer 3 syllables and more 1 & 2 syllable words

One thing to remember for now:

AI has advanced but is not perfect.

If you’re using it, you need to check facts, too.

AI uses the web to find information. If the information is wrong, it will affect your output.

This doesn’t happen often, but you still have to be careful.

And yeah… treat the bullet points above as a checklist next time you prompt.

2: Always specify your target audience

If you want better attention for your content, specify who it’s for.

Look at a social platform. Almost every successful post is for a specific audience.

This doesn’t just mean directly addressing them.

But talk to them in a way they want to hear, mention their problems, and give solutions.

And for sure… different audiences have different understanding levels.

If you’re writing for everyday internet users, use simple language.

If you’re writing for top executives, use professional language.

After deciding on who your audience is, add this to your prompt:

“I want you to write in [language style or reading level of the audience] for [your specific audience].”

Once you specify your audience, getting attention is easy.

3: Inject your tone of voice

One of the best things most AI tools can do is search the web.

“Well. How does that help with tone of voice?”

It learns something way faster and easier than you can manually provide for it.

It is like putting its power on steroids.

Let me give you an example.

Suppose you want to use Ogilvy’s writing style. You can make ChatGPT search the web, find it, and use it in what it writes.

I tried it. Check it out here:

This works better when you’re writing for a specific purpose.

If it’s writing a blog, ask for the writing style of a professional blogger.

Or if you like your own writing style, train AI with your writing and ask it to write in the same way.

4: Try again with the same prompt

We all prompt AI, and sometimes we don’t like what it generates.

But the mistake happens when you give up there.

If you fine-tune your prompt and try again, you’ll get better responses.

This helps you in two ways:

• You learn how AI reacts to certain words in a prompt.

• Once a prompt works well, you can save and use it next time.

For me, fine-tuning works really well.

I suggest you create a prompt, try it out, and fix it repeatedly the next time you write with AI.

But remember one thing:

AI is not mature enough yet. We still need to tweak parts of what it generates, or at least the prompts we give.

P.S. The AI Writer is attached here. Enjoy automating your content.

Until next time,

See you.

Sami Sharaf👋