I Felt “Unintelligent” Trying To Use AI to Write an Article

Onyedikachukwu Czar
5 min readAug 3, 2022
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Regardless of how terrified I feel staring at a blank screen or paper, thinking of how to fill them with meaningful thoughts, using AI to generate an entire article is one trick I still don’t consider an option.

Number one reason is that I feel doing so defeats the aim of "sharing your thoughts," which is why we write in the first place, and then there's the hunch I have that artificial intelligence still cannot write as well as humans.

But recently while I was trying out a list of writing tools that I came across in a blog post, one of which is an AI tool that autocompletes sentences for you as you write; and if you try out the optional sentences that pop up at every stage of your writing, you can end up writing a full article with none of your original words.

Out of curiosity, I said to give it a try.

Once on the interface, the first prompt was to type the title of the article I want to write, which I did.

This is then followed by a series of other prompts:

Prompt number two was to craft a brief description of what I wanted the post to be about (this is optional).

And prompt number three was to choose the tone I want the article to come in —among others, there are the professional…

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Onyedikachukwu Czar
Onyedikachukwu Czar

Written by Onyedikachukwu Czar

I write: AI | Personal finance & growth | Tech. I sieve the noise and then share with you everything that's left.

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