How Artificial Intelligence Creates Your Blog Content in Seconds

Dennis Francis
5 min readJan 1, 2022

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Writing is one of the most critical skills to learn and master, as it’s widely applicable in many settings — be it at home, at work, or even on social media. However, writing can be tedious and time-consuming; particularly if you need to write something long, like an essay or a research paper.

There are now AI writers that can help you out in case you’re too busy to write on your own. I was wondering how this phase of automation would work for authors, journalists and other content creators.

Then I considered the typewriter. We take content production for granted now, but typewriters were revolutionary in their day. Sure, humans still controlled the output, but we could do that much faster using a machine.

Here’s how AI and machine learning work to create content. Artificial intelligence uses deep learning and natural language processing technologies to analyze existing writing samples in its database. Using algorithms, the computer finds meaning from words by collecting and sorting data.

The algorithm analyzes a variety of sources, like reports, press releases and speeches, to identify patterns in sentence structure and syntax. Based on the user’s preferences, the algorithm creates an outline for a story. They may not be ready to replace a human professional writer yet, but they definitely have their uses.

How Much Do AI Writing Services Cost?

I’ve experimented with quite a few of these tools. They have a fairly similar fee program. You’ll get a free trial for a few days or a set amount of words to get a feel for the system. Once you’re ready to commit, the cost may be less than $20 a month for an annual payment or between $30 — $50 a month on the monthly payment schedule.

There is a token system used by many of these sites that helps you to scale up as you need. You may have a standard number of words per token. Your monthly fee covers a set number of tokens. If you use more than your monthly allotment, you can order more tokens for the month.

There are more robust options for larger companies that need to produce a lot of material daily. For the average small business that just wants to get relevant material for their website, a basic subscription will more than cover their needs.

How Do I Get Started With AI Content Writing Services?

Most of the applications have more options than the average content writer will need. That’s because these programs are trying to appeal to a broad spectrum of content needs. Start by deciding what types of content you’ll be creating on a regular schedule.

For example, if you write informative blog posts on a popular topic, you may need an app that can help you create topics in your niche in the right format with organized subheads. Some may even help with generating research material for your topics.

That means you won’t be using landing page or advertising copywriting options very often. Thankfully, many apps allow you to go directly to the type of content you’ll be creating and bypass the complex assortment of options.

The Benefits of Automated Articles for Content Creation

Need to write hundreds of informative articles each day? Don’t have a staff that can produce these for you? Auto-generated content might be your answer. Using artificial intelligence and machine learning, it’s now possible to create (and then curate) massive amounts of fresh content with minimal human interaction.

This saves you time and money while improving SEO ratings and keeping your audience engaged. This kind of scale is more in keeping with news outlets and large companies that drive massive amounts of traffic to their sites each day.

Automated content isn’t just for SEO and promotional use; brands are seeing major gains in efficiency from using auto-generated articles within their social media channels as well as including them in their email marketing campaigns.

What Are the Cons to Using AI Generated Content?

AI-written content doesn’t always make sense, which is a major drawback. In addition to frustrating readers, this also frustrates you as a content creator who is trying to provide valuable information. However, auto-generated content is not all terrible. While not every piece of generated text will contain grammar errors or repeat the same information more than once, they all fail on some level.

Warning: Never, and I mean, never trust the AI to produce and post your content without your review. You could end up with a mess of disjointed sentences. Google and other search engines will most likely ignore it if their own AI considers the work to be “spammy” content.

That’s because search engine algorithms are scanning for context and relevance more than ever when evaluating web pages. Just having a collection of sentences that cover a topic will not fool machine learning systems.

Most of the times, it’s just dull content. Let’s be honest, we have grown used to digesting opinion pieces and become bored with straight factual material. We appreciate the human spin on information. An AI may eventually add the personal touches that we currently look for in copy, but that time hasn’t arrived yet.

The better systems that crank out material for news feeds are beyond the price point of the average content marketer. They are used to “personalize” content for a variety of journalistic formats. Artificial Intelligence is crossing into a variety of data driven fields and businesses are loving it.

Large news outlets are automating much of their online content using Natural Language Generation (NLG). NLG helps make challenging data understandable for everyone. Besides data collection, the software can create analytical reports, bullet point descriptions, and allow for easier reading of information.

AI and machine learning are analyzing video, personalizing streaming content and extracting user data to enhance decision making in new programming arenas. This is also invaluable for reports, analyses and projections.

For human writers who must turn out engaging material daily, these AI content creation systems can be precious. They can generate snippets of information that can then be used in reports, blog posts, and articles. These systems can generate content outlines based on keywords.

For the professional content producer, this is just another tool for getting the work out faster, with increased precision and still keeping the human touch. In the end, it’s all about better communication and influence. AI content creators can be a welcome addition, like introducing the typewriter.

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Dennis Francis
Dennis Francis

Written by Dennis Francis

Retired content marketing consultant. Author, artist, husband, father and owner of ContentMarketingMagic.co. Still helping small business owners daily.

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