Just a few short years ago, generative AI was something reserved for the plot line of some futuristic action flick. Today, however, AI-powered tools are everywhere churning out audio, images, text, and video content faster than the average person could type out this paragraph.

1. A Balancing Act: Knowing When to Use AI for
Content Creation and When to Avoid It
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2. Just a few short years ago, generative AI was something
reserved for the plot line of some futuristic action flick. Today,
however, AI-powered tools are everywhere churning out audio,
images, text, and video content faster than the average person
could type out this paragraph.
A whopping 60% of marketers report using generative AI in some
professional capacity whether it is condensing lengthy texts,
composing social media content, or brainstorming ideas.
However, with great power comes great responsibility. In this
context, it is crucial to balance generative AI’s incredible
possibilities with its potential risks to your brand and consider
whether employing generative AI may be doing more harm than
good.

4. What is Generative AI?
By now, most people are at least vaguely familiar with
generative AI tools such as ChatGTP or Bard, but if not, here is
a quick recap.
In 2022, ChatGTP burst onto the scene surprising most people
outside the tech world with its human-like chat capabilities.
Generative AI marks a significant departure from previous AI
tools. Rather than relying on fixed rules or data models,
generative AI leverages sophisticated machine learning models
to create new content based on existing data and delivers it in
such a way that it is almost indistinguishable from a person.
They don’t simply regurgitate existing data or patterns but
instead generate outputs that haven’t been explicitly
programmed or seen before based on the information they can
access.

5. However, generative AI models are far from perfect. Issues such
as misguided SEO research, factual accuracy, plagiarism, and
the absence of human expertise and reasoning are increasingly
being flagged and present substantial challenges for brands
using technology. And that is where this blog comes into play.
Coming up, we will explore ways generative AI can be used to
enhance and optimize your content creation process while
avoiding the pitfalls of an overreliance on AI tools.

6. How to Use Generative AI in Your Content Creation
Despite some highly vocal opposition, the truth is generative AI
cannot and will not replace human creativity; rather, its role in
content creation is more of a support position- a super helper if
you will. Generative AI is excellent in helping marketers speed
up their workflows, curing writer’s block with awesome ideas for
content, and getting that first draught rolling. The key is
maintaining the right balance of AI assistance and human
finesse. Get it right and generative AI is like having a
turbocharger for your content creation engine, but get it wrong,
and AI-generated content could create major speed bumps on
your road to online dominance.
Here are a few ways marketers and content creators are
leveraging AI to enhance their workflows without sacrificing the
quality and human nuance of their work.

7. Summarising Mountains of Words
Writers spend a lot of time researching the topics they write
about for an article (not unlike this one), which could mean
hours of pouring over the material, taking notes, and verifying
facts, all before even starting the writing process. This is one of
the key areas where content creators can benefit from AI.
Generative AI can summarize mammoth amounts of text into
bite-sized, digestible chunks in minutes, leaving writers to do
what they do best – produce engaging, informative, and well-
researched blogs and articles for readers to enjoy.

8. Crafting Landing Page Copy
Landing pages are what draw visitors to your website and you
want them to scream “Come in, we have what you need!”
Attention-grabbing website copy and meta descriptions are like
SEO 101. They are crucial to driving website traffic and upping
your conversion stats. AI can lend a hand here by analyzing
your core content and then weaving attention-grabbing titles,
meta descriptions, and landing page copy that hook the readers
and improve your SEO game.

9. Rapid-Fire Social Media Posts
Social networks are that high-energy party where you have to
shine bright and fast! AI steps up to create engaging social
media posts that cater to your specific audience. It’s like pulling
out the most exciting bits from your long content and reshaping
them into zippy captions and tweets that draw the crowd to your
more detailed (person-produced) content.
Experimenting with Copy and Headlines
Experimenting with different versions of content is a
fundamental strategy used by marketers to evaluate the
effectiveness of various content, website copy, or ad campaigns
to determine which content lands better with readers.
Generative AI can help simplify A/B testing by quickly producing
multiple variations of your content- kind of like that quick-
thinking friend who always knows just the right thing to say to
grab everyone’s attention. It is not doing the work but
streamlining it and making marketing strategies even sharper.

10. Product Descriptions
Need help pitching your top-notch performance racing mufflers
to buyers online? Product descriptions are an essential selling
feature for e-commerce retailers and they need to land.
However, getting them right can take time and a lot of effort. You
can systematically go through the various features each unit
offers or you can plug the details into an AI content generator
and it will produce a short, medium, or long description tailored
to your parameters.
However, it is important to note that while AI writing tools offer a
new dimension in quick and easy content generation, they still
require a human touch in areas such as understanding the
target audience, brand voice, and SEO relevancy for optimal
conversions.

11. Risks Associated with AI-Generated Content
Despite all that is good about generative AI, the overreliance on
these tools for content creation presents significant risks and
challenges that users must be aware of and address.
Fact-Checking and Quality Control
AI doesn’t possess actual knowledge as it acquires it from large
datasets processed during training. These datasets draw from
various sources, including text, images, audio, and other
information available on the internet or from curated databases.
The information is embedded in the model through machine
learning, where the AI algorithm analyzes patterns,
relationships, and structures within the data to understand
language and context and, ultimately, generate content.

12. AI cannot fact-check and verify information thereby posing a
serious risk of spreading misinformation that could harm your
brand’s reputation and credibility. AI-generated content needs
human writers and editors to thoroughly review, refine, and
verify facts to ensure that every piece of content meets your
expected quality standards.
A Bad Case of the Blahs
Although AI is a great tool to help create outlines and even
initial draughts it just cannot capture human nuances, tone, and
context effectively because as smart as it is. AI lacks the
emotional intelligence to excel in writing engaging copy and
often produces bland, shallow content that reads like a robot
wrote it. Human writers and editors hold a crucial role in
refining content, ensuring it is coherent, appealing to readers,
and resonates with the brand’s distinctive voice. Their
involvement is and will continue to be, vital to the content
creation process.

13. SEO and Rankings
While AI can assist in creating content optimized for search
engines, relying solely on AI-generated content without human
input can lead to generic, inaccurate, or misleading content,
ultimately affecting your ranking. Content needs three things to
perform better in search results: relevance, quality, and
authority. Relevance signifies how well the content matches the
user’s search intent. Quality is a measure of well-crafted,
informative, and engaging material, and authority refers to the
credibility and trustworthiness of the content, often assessed by
the backlinks and references it accumulates from reputable
sources.
Although generative AI models may be able to produce relevant
content, they lack the perspective, nuance, and depth to truly
engage them, particularly in cases of current events beyond the
model’s knowledge base, and cannot replicate authority.
Overusing AI content in SEO may impact your website’s

14. Ethical Considerations
The use of AI in content creation also raises ethical concerns,
particularly with regard to transparency. It is safe to assume that
when readers engage with your brand, they expect person-to-
person interaction rather than AI-generated content. Learning AI
was used without disclosure could cause your consumers to
lose trust in your brand and impact your brand’s reputation.

15. A Downward Spiral
The newest concern about AI-generated content? Cannibalism!
The surge in popularity of generative AI is saturating the
Internet with AI-generated content creating a situation where
this content, including its errors, misinformation, stereotypes,
and misperceived data, will be used to train future AI models.
Experts worry that feeding models AI-generated data even in
small amounts could cause long-term issues, leading to what
they term “model collapse,” where errors accumulate, rendering
the models ineffective. Researchers have already observed this
trend in various AI models, resulting in gibberish outputs or
devolved images after successive generations. If this situation
plays out as some experts believe it will, the need for human
intervention in AI-generated content will become more
important, not less, in the coming years.

16. The Verdict?
Undoubtedly, AI-generated content offers numerous advantages
to content creators and marketers, particularly in streamlining
writing processes, aiding in ideation, and enhancing
productivity. However, along with all the good comes a slew of
potential negatives, highlighting the need for cautious use of AI-
generated content.
A balanced approach that integrates AI efficiency with human
expertise is key to unlocking the full potential of AI-generated
content while ensuring that accuracy, authenticity, and ethical
standards are upheld in content creation processes. As AI
continues to become more mainstream, it is up to content
creators, marketers, and businesses to stay on top of evolving
tools and technologies to employ these tools in a way that helps
and not hinders their success.

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