I totally respect intuition. When I was a young woman a man ran his car through a red light and hit me on the driver’s side of my vehicle. It wasn’t too bad but I had to go to the emergency room. Before the ambulance arrived, he rushed over to my vehicle and asked if I was okay. I noticed his arms were covered with mercurochrome. (Young-uns look it up.) That struck me as strange.

Of course he was uninsured, but my insurance covered my bills. Friends began pressing me to “sue him.” I knew I had a case, and, at the time, I sure could have used the dough. But I didn’t. My intuition told me to steer clear. 

About three years later, I was reading a story in the LA Times about an 70-year-old man who was caught riding a bike in a parking lot with his 90-year-old mother cut up in a black garbage bag. 

The name rang a bell. I went and looked up my accident report and, sure enough, it was the same guy. His name was the same. He had been 67 at the time of the accident. And his occupation was the same, an electrician.

I am sure glad I paid attention to my intuition!

We have all had those times when we knew something wasn’t right. 

That’s the feeling I get these days when I run into text written with AI.

A new competitor came into my territory, so I thought I would check out their website. It was a nice-looking site and the text read well enough.

But something about the text smelled. No it wasn’t like a fishy or a stinky cheesy smell. It was a fakey smell. 

As I looked at the text, I thought, “This isn’t written by a human.” 

To verify my thinking, I copied some text and threw it into an AI checker. 

After a few seconds, the verdict appeared: AI Content Detected. I tried another AI checker and the verdict: 100% of Content AI-Generated. The last one I tried: Your Text is AI/GPT Generated.

Now text being written by AI is not a sin or against the law. But I think web site owners should tread carefully in this new territory. AI writing may not be as persuasive or compelling to market your wares. It may even get penalized by Google, although Google claims they don’t necessarily rank a site poorly because of AI content, after all, human writers can write unhelpful and poor content, too. 

But I just can’t help but think that if Google is looking at two pieces of similar content, all things being equal, the one that is human generated is going to rank better. And, generally speaking, is going to read better. It might even smell like a garden in springtime.

here are many AI checkers available, but the ones I used are …

Copyleaks https://copyleaks.com/ai-content-detector

ZeroGPT https://www.zerogpt.com/

QuillBot https://quillbot.com/ai-content-detector 

You can use the above websites, for free, to check out your competition’s text. Or, if you hire a human writer or agency, you can check to ensure the work they did for you was not AI-generated (Hint: If they plan to use AI, they should advise you ahead of time.)

Easy Web Tip 355: Use AI checkers to confirm text is human or AI generated.

P.S. Did you know that according to a ranching friend, the original AI was artificial insemination?