#0034 My results using ChatGPT

Shelby Meyer

Written	January 03, 2025
AI Enhanced	January 03, 2025
Updated	September 12, 2025
Category	[AI SERIES]

Writing Process

Astute users may have noticed that I have been using ChatGPT to aid in the content creation of this website. I like to write my blog posts based on questions I am asked by my clients. My clients have been an awesome source of ideas for the website. A client will come to me with a question that I have answered for other clients many times in the past. Therefore, I decided to put the answers in writing so anyone can benefit.

I start by making an outline of how I want to write the answer and what I want to include, then I start filling in details. Sentences begin to form. The I read, revise and repeat. Now, I am not the greatest writer, and my content can come across as choppy or I may repeat words here and there. I will spend considerable time rephrasing and using the grammar checker in MS Word. Try as I might, the wording still doesn't work as well as it should. This is why I started using AI to improve my content.

ChatGPT

ChatGPT is one such AI service that can be used freely or with a paid subscription. At the prompt, I ask ChatGPT to rewrite my original article to be easier to read and to confirm they are at a high school reading level. Then I use copy and paste to submit my original content. ChatGPT will think for a second and spit out a revised article. It’s much like having a copy editor, but much quicker.

Positive Results

Overall, I've had mostly good results. My ideas are retained as to maintain the gist of whatever I happen to be writing. Many sentences are rephrased, sometimes the order of things is corrected, and everything flows better. Sometimes ChatGPT will pull in additional information that I hadn't thought to include. I like it when it does that. You will still need to re-read the article to make sure it still gets your points across without distorting the meaning. ChatGPT does seem to work better on smaller articles and blog posts. It's been a major time saver.

It's not perfect

ChatGPT is not always correct. You MUST review the rewritten work carefully before you publish the article online. I have found that rewrites of longer articles left out entire paragraphs of relevant information or rephrased them, so it changed the meaning entirely. There are times where it can be outright wrong. I did try it on a couple of the reviews and ChatGPT totally ruined them, so I did not use that particular rewritten content. I do plan to retry them by submitting them differently for the rewrite. I may break them up in to sections so as not to confuse the AI. I will post an update after I figure out a working solution.I have posted another article that discusses AI mistakes.

Acknowledgement

You will notice that I indicate at the top of any content where I used AI (usually ChatGPT). I don't know if other people do the same, but I felt that it was important to indicate when AI was used. As of the writing of this post, I have rewritten a significant amount of the blog content on the website. I think it's better. This has been a learning process but its steadily improving.