Almost everyone is using ChatGPT to churn out content. You might also be thinking of doing the same: “Why don’t I use ChatGPT? After all, all I need to do is write a prompt, copy-paste, and hit publish.”
Well, publishing raw ChatGPT content isn’t a good idea, because AI content is usually far from being good. Usually, it has a lot of risks that you shouldn’t overlook before you hit publish. But what are these risks exactly, and how do we avoid them?
In this article, we will go through the risks of publishing raw AI content and how to avoid them.
1. Potential Misinformation
AI tools have increased the potential of misinformed content by leaps and bounds. With just a simple prompt, anybody can claim to have written “content,” which in fact is just a synthesis of existing content.
But a lot of existing content can be inaccurate or outdated. But AI tools like ChatGPT are unable to see through these potential inaccuracies. This leads them to create content that could be very well inaccurate.
But that’s not all. Even if the existing content an AI tool looks up is correct, the tool itself can make up information as facts about people, events, and things. This can happen for various reasons, such as when an LLM hallucinates or becomes biased due to the user’s prompts, in which cases, the tool ends up faking information and facts.
And, at times, it can be hard to realize if a tool has become biased. So, even if someone doesn’t intend to spread misinformation, their LLM might unintentionally make them do it without knowledge, if they create and publish content using it.
So, how do we prevent misinformation through a chatbot?
How to Avoid It:
There’s no definite answer to this. But there are some practices you can, and should, follow to be careful. These are as follows:
- Don’t continue a chat with a chatbot for too long.
- Always try to start from a new chat when creating new content.
- Be as neutral in prompting as possible. Don’t come across as someone expecting a certain answer to a question by suggesting your assumption. For example, if your content revolves around a certain diet being harmful for the human body, don’t ask the tool like: “This diet is not harmful for the human body. Am I right?” The chatbot will think you want to hear a “no.” Instead, write: “Are there any harm to the human body for following this diet?”
- Fact-check, always.
2. Plagiarism
Another risk of publishing raw AI content is the furthering of plagiarism.
The reason behind it is as simple as the fact that AI tools rely on existing content for responding to users, especially when they create content. This means they borrow a fair share of text from existing publications, which users unknowingly publish and share, contributing to the increase of plagiarism.
Publishing plagiarized content can be detrimental to your credibility as a writer, and academic integrity as a student. In professional work, it can undermine and question your professionalism. So, better avoid publishing raw AI content.
To learn how to remove plagiarism easily you can read the guide.How to Avoid It:
The best way to avoid plagiarism in AI content is to fact-check the information. I know it can amount to a lot of work, but you already have all the content written for you. So, all you need to do now is check the information for accuracy.
If the tool cites any sources or links to them, visit the pages and check the validity of the claims. Otherwise, use search engines and or other platforms to check the facts.
Once you verify a fact, cite its source clearly in the content using proper citations. But that’s not all. You need to paraphrase the plagiarized text to remove its similarity with existing content. Paraphrasetool.ai’s
Plagiarism Remover only takes a few seconds to do this for you. Just paste your content into the plagiarism remover and click “Remove Plagiarism.” Your text will become plagiarism-free.
3. Generic Content
Another issue with AI content is its genericness.
AI tools are not cut out for writing unique and insightful content. Their limitations and way of working usually allows them to only create surface level content that’s already being published everywhere. Especially when there’s not much information available on a topic, even an advanced LLM like ChatGPT can struggle to produce content that’s useful for readers. This is why publishing AI content without making it unique, in-depth, and helpful for readers can result in delivering unhelpful and redundant content that adds no value for readers.
How to Avoid It:
One way to avoid generic content is avoiding writing on generic topics and topics that are too niche to be written by just anyone. Remember, AI tools only synthesize existing information. So, their content is going to be only as insightful as the content already published.
The other way to make AI content useful is by adding insights yourself to make the content useful. You can write in addition to what AI has written and add depth to the content this way. Consider adding:
- Figures and useful data
- Examples and analogies
- Visuals—graphs, infographics, videos, images, etc.
4. Unnatural Writing
Aside from plagiarism and inaccuracies, AI content has major problems in its writing style. It uses a predictable way of writing, repeating certain words and phrases, which makes its content feel robotic and redundant.
Publishing robotic AI content can make it feel unoriginal. Readers might think your content is a copy-paste of AI response.
How to Avoid It:
To avoid robotic writing in your content, you must humanize the AI text to make it feel natural and human-written. Humanizing involves using various paraphrasing techniques to break AI patterns, such as:
- Common AI words and phrases: Replace words and phrases that AI tools tend to repeat with more natural alternatives.
- Uniform sentences: Unlike human writing, AI writing feels stiff and unnatural because of its uniform sentences. Vary sentence length to make the writing feel more spontaneous and naturally varied.
- Generic tone: AI tools like ChatGPT keep a neutral tone in their content. Alter the word choice and sentence structure to refine the content’s tone and make it feel less generic.
An easier way to humanize AI content is through an
AI text humanizer, which is a tool that rewrites your content to make it sound natural and human-written by breaking its AI pattern. ParaphraseTool.ai features a simple
text Humanizer that you can use to turn your AI text completely human-written. It saves you both time and effort.
5. Lack of Author Voice
Due to AI’s way of writing, its content comes across as if it has no author behind it. In other words, it lacks a unique author that makes the content feel like it was written by a human author. The genericness and unnaturally robotic writing add up and make the content feel author-less.
You should avoid publishing content that doesn’t have a unique author voice, especially as a brand. It is because author-less content can make readers find it cold and hard to trust, and with extension, potential customers might not want to trust your brand.
How to Avoid It:
Make sure your content has a unique author voice. Normally, an author's voice is the result of the author’s unique perspective, beliefs, way of thinking, word choice, and tone.
So, the best way to instill an author voice into your content is to have a real author edit it. But
ParaphraseTool.ai can also help shape your content’s voice. It offers different paraphrasing modes for unique tones, such as formal and academic. The tool rewrites your content by changing its word choice, sentence structure, voice, and overall tone to shape its author voice, making it feel human-written, as if a real author wrote it.
Conclusion
Publishing raw ChatGPT content comes with many problems, including: misinformation, plagiarism, genericness, unnatural writing, and a lack of author voice. All of these issues make AI content unsuitable for publishing online without editing. However, you can rework your content to resolve these issues, as explained in the guide.
