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Hot take: That $200 AI writing assistant I bought last year was a total waste
I jumped on a deal for this fancy AI tool that promised to help me write better emails and blog posts. It cost me $200 for the yearly plan, and at first I thought it was great. But after a few months, I noticed all the suggestions sounded the same, kind of robotic and lifeless. I ended up rewriting most of what it spat out anyway. I finally canceled it two months ago and went back to just using free tools like ChatGPT for rough drafts. Has anyone else found those premium AI writing tools overhyped or am I just too picky?
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clairec7810d ago
Honestly, that $200 could have bought a nice dinner and a couple of good books instead. I tried a similar tool for three months and kept getting the same recommendation to "leverage synergies" in every single email draft. It was like talking to a robot that only knew business buzzwords from 2015. I ended up using the free version of ChatGPT and just feeding it a few lines from emails I liked for tone. Way cheaper and I could actually control the voice.
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Yeah I had the same experience with one of those tools. The free stuff works just as well if you take five minutes to write a decent prompt instead of just typing "write an email." The premium ones are really just selling you the idea that paying money makes the writing better, which it doesn't.
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