- By Vikas Yadav
- Sun, 02 Jul 2023 03:43 PM (IST)
- Source:JND
JE Technology Desk: ChatGPT and its competitors have been in the news for their impressive and steadfast writing capabilities. And Tina Sendin is among the believers of this. And once she went on to use one of these AI tools (Jasper.ai), it led to a cancellation of work commitment with a loyal client, according to a Business Insider repor Here's what happened.
Sendin has a full-time job and takes up freelance writing works as a sidekick. The marketing professional signed a three-month project to write how-to manuals and over 50 articles with a client. Rushing through her two roles, she ventured into AI for help to complete the work within the asked time frame.
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Jasper.ai was the tool she started using to create up to 20 articles of up to 2,500 words per month for the client. "I essentially used Jasper.ai as an extension of myself," she added. The AI tool was her preferred pick over ChatGPT and Bard because of the "pre-built templates" that aid the prompts. Jasper did the heavy lifting, and she did minimal edits to the work.
The termination
After sharing the required deliverables, her client scanned the work through AI content detectors. And on the expected lines, they were flagged as AI's creation. The contract was terminated and she received less than 40 per cent of the promised amount.
Learning from her mistake, she shared a few lessons that can help you in the corporate space if you also use AI in the workplace.
'I learned a valuable lesson the hard way'
She added that AI tools should not act as a replacement for an employee's hard work. Now, Sendin takes permission from her clients to use AI tools for writing beforehand. She uses AI to enhance a drafted piece, maintain the preferred tone, summarize drafts, and take inputs to add content, among other things. Fact-checking data and taking the information as mere suggestions is important.
Among the positives of the tool is that her writing time has been sliced into half to four hours for a 2,500-hour essay, giving room for more clients she can work with.