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By Jake Rigdon Owner, JakeGPT1973.com About three months ago – ancient history now – I published a post on the ChatGPT subReddit asking people for their recommendations for the best AI-detectors . That post didn’t initially generate much response, and those who did comment didn’t have a ton to add to the actual topic. Then again, that wasn’t entirely unexpected. ChatGPT was released in late November 2022, so I wasn’t expecting a huge response just three months later. However, that post has continued to generate the occasional helpful comment, so I finally decided to test out all those suggested AI-detectors, along with several other popular ones that were not mentioned in the comments of that subReddit post. Spoiler alert: The results weren’t great. However, these tools should still play a major role in getting your content ready to publish – even if you don’t use AI tools. First, let’s take a look at how 12 AI detectors fared against three famous speeches. Then we’ll see ...

  I recently ran into a former client and discussed how his business was recovering from the pandemic. “I was doing great,” he said, “until about two weeks ago.” If you’re a lawyer, Realtor, dentist or any other type of small to mid-size business and recently started using ChatGPT for your website, you better pay attention to his story. Turns out this former client just saw his website ranking take a nosedive, and all of his blog posts written since February have been de-listed. The culprit? ChatGPT. Or, more appropriately, the “misuse” of ChatGPT. Here’s what he did … 'I thought it was OK …' This attorney was a client of mine for about four or five months back in 2017. A former English major, he dabbled in SEO, paid a pretty penny to have someone design his website, then contracted out my bespoke blogging agency to handle his content. We wrote eight blog posts every month for him. But he was also a self-described “cheapskate,” so we eventually parted ways when he decided to re...

Pandora was ahead of its time. The music app was officially launched to the public back in September 2005, and it was a god-send to all music lovers. Sure, you might not hear your favorite song, but you'll be immersed in a huge catalog of tunes within the same genre, providing countless hours of music curated to your distinct taste. Two years later, Spotify was released – and it immediately made Pandora look outdated. The reason? Listeners could now play specific songs in real-time. Meanwhile, Pandora didn’t add that function until unveiling their “Pandora Premium” in 2017, but the damage had already been done. These days, Spotify is roughly 11-times larger than Pandora, with 515 million users as of the first quarter of this year. By comparison, Pandora boasts 46.7 million users. To be fair, both companies are wildly successful. Pandora, for example, generated $2 billion in revenue last year. But it’s still the “Pepsi” to Spotify’s “Coke” in terms of global reach and cu...

We were recently in negotiations with a gaming client who wanted us to handle all the blog content and corresponding social media posts for their brand-new website. Luckily, we have a gamer on staff who would like nothing more than to write about and play video games for a living. So he was thrilled with this first assignment. However, I warned him ahead of time: "We haven't nailed this client yet, so the quality of the first post we provide them will go a long way toward nailing this company down as a new client. "In other words," I continued, "I need your very best work." Of course, I always want everyone's best work. Still, adding that line underscores how important this one blog post was. By the next night, I had the assignment back – and immediately saw some significant problems with the writing. The writer used ChatGPT and various other tools to help him write the post, but most of the work was all him. So, to get readers excited and s...

True story: I spent months developing a prompt that prevented ChatGPT from using the words "conclusion" at the end of every blog post. I came close several times, including results that omit that phrase about 60 percent of the time. So, I kept tweaking the prompt just slightly, testing each version repeatedly. And I'd come a little closer, only to fall just a tiny bit short as ChatGPT would either use that exact word or some variation of it, like "in conclusion," or "in summary," or even "to wrap things up." Finally, after about four months of tweaking and rewriting the prompt, I developed one that avoids the usage of that phrase 100 percent of the time – or so I thought. Then, just for grins, I used the prompt again tonight on a random, easy blog topic just before writing this post – and the resulting content produced by ChatGPT 4.0 used the phrase "concluding this guide" in the last paragraph. Of course, the prompt worked the very...