Words and Stuff

5 Pro Tips for Using AI Without Sounding Like a Robot

Why Does AI Content Sound So Generic and Robotic? You've been using ChatGPT (or Claude) for months now. Your content calendar is finally full. Your drafts actually get finished. And yet.... Everything sounds like it was written by the same polite, impossibly helpful...

AI Content Repurposing: Keep Your Voice While Scaling

AI content repurposing is the bomb... when it's done right. You've written a solid blog post. Now you want to turn it into social content, an email, maybe a LinkedIn post. So you ask ChatGPT to "repurpose this into a LinkedIn post" and what you get back sounds like a...

Affordable AI Tools Small Business Owners Can Actually Get Good Results From

Why It's Too Easy for Small Businesses Get AI Wrong (And Waste Money Doing It) Here's something many people are getting back to front: throwing money at expensive AI tools, thinking the bigger the cost, the better the output. In short, fancy won't fix bad...
Your AI Is Lying to You: The Small Business Owner’s Guide to Catching Digital Fibs Before They Go Live

Your AI Is Lying to You: The Small Business Owner’s Guide to Catching Digital Fibs Before They Go Live

Last week, I read a true AI fact-checking horror story. While scrolling through the businessy-groups I do, there was a discussion thread that stopped me in my tracks. An experienced small business owner had been let down by ChatGPT.... and she was mortified! You see,...

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AI Slop is Flooding the Internet: How Fake Content is Fooling Millions and What It Means for Your Brand

AI Slop is Flooding the Internet: How Fake Content is Fooling Millions and What It Means for Your Brand

Picture this: You're scrolling through your Facebook feed (as we all do) and land on an image of Jesus Christ. Made entirely of shrimp. Getting thousands of "Amens" from people who seem genuinely moved by this crustacean saviour. You don't even resist the urge to...

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Editing AI-Generated Content: 5 Steps to Making it Yours

Editing AI-Generated Content: 5 Steps to Making it Yours

Ever experienced the feeling when reading something... that it's just a bit off? And that it sounds at best 'pedestrian', like a robot could have written it? I know I have! As I'm an avid reader and a professional writer, you can probably imagine my ire when a few...

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Why Copying AI Output is a Deadly Sin

Why Copying AI Output is a Deadly Sin

Ever whipped up a paragraph in ChatGPT, smiled and thought “nailed it”? Then, headed straight for the Ctrl + C to paste it directly into your blog post? Look, you certainly wouldn’t be the first to do so, and I'm sure you won't be the last person copying AI output,...

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