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Snagging College Admission With An AI-Written Essay

Granted: It’s one thing to turn to AI to spit-out a college essay at three in the morning when the assignment’s due at sunrise.

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But a college admissions essay — the one piece of writing upon which so many college careers have dangled for centuries?

Sad but true.

Reports The Jasper Whisperer:

“In a highly competitive environment, where college admissions and scholarship applications are becoming more and more difficult to navigate, many students are turning to AI-generated essays in order to give themselves an advantage.

“So if you’re feeling overwhelmed by the college admissions process, don’t worry — Jasper AI has you covered.

“It’ll help you write a winning essay that will set you apart from the rest.”

Apparently, academic integrity is oh-so-2021.

*In-Depth Guide: Rytr: Jessica Hall offers an extremely thorough look at Rytr in this guide — currently one of the most popular AI writers on the market.

Hall’s take: “Ultimately, our verdict is that Rytr is a powerful and versatile writing assistant, with some caveats. It has a wide variety of tricks up its sleeve, but it isn’t ready for what we’ll call load-bearing composition.

“We found that the app is most useful when the writer already has a sense of narrative and all their facts straight.”

“If the user can very clearly and carefully specify what they want, the writing process can be fast and smooth.”

Bottom line: Hall truly puts Rytr through its paces with this guide, which is a great read.

*Another AI-Powered Content Suite Emerges: Ad Picscart to the growing cadre of companies that are offering AI-powered, automated content creation suites.

Originally a digital art studio, the software now also offers AI-generated writing and AI text-to-art imaging.

For text-to-art, the “new tool allows users to simply type in a word or phrase and instantaneously generate a passably realistic image that can be used for design purposes,” according to Patrick Kulp, a writer for Adweek.

*New AI Writing Coach Released for Lawyers Who Use Microsoft Word: AI continues to make inroads into the law with Spellbook, a tool that helps automate the writing of contracts for lawyers who use Microsoft Word.

According to Artificial Lawyer, the AI-powered tool helps make contract writing a breeze with:

~Language Suggestion: Spellbook can draft new clauses and sections, taking the full context of the contract into account

~Negotiation Suggestions: Spellbook can list common points for negotiation, based on the contract

~Term Summaries: Spellbook can instantly create short-term summaries for any common contract.

*Hammered: AI-Generated Web Sites Apparently Penalized by Google: Well-known digital marketer Neil Patel suspects Google may have figured-out a way to suss-out Web sites created entirely with AI writing — and is penalizing those sites.

Patel says he maintains 100 experimental Web sites that use AI-generated writing and has discovered:

~The experimental Web sites sporting content written entirely with AI saw an average 17% drop in traffic and dropped an average of 8 positions in search rankings

~The experimental Web sites featuring AI-powered content tweaked by a human saw a 6% drop in traffic and an average drop of three positions in search engine returns

Sites with AI-written content — that were tweaked by humans — fared much better. These sites saw a 6% traffic drop on average and a drop of about three positions in search.

*Adobe Bets-The-House on Text-to-Art Generation: Apparently, in addition to Silicon Valley investors, there are other major players in tech who are gaga over AI text-to-art generation.

Powerhouse Adobe “just made a big play into generative AI, one that will fundamentally change how creators use their products,” according to Mike Kaput, director, Marketing Artificial Intelligence Institute.

Essentially, Adobe announced that it will be adding text-to-art capability to its products, including Creative Cloud and Photoshop.

*Study Group: AI Disruption Ahead for News Media: There’s a good chance that machines — and not humans — will be auto-generating much of the news you’ll be consuming within the next few years, according to The Partnership on AI.

The nonprofit — funded by the likes of Amazon, Google and Microsoft — sees AI and computers handling breaking news alerts like bus delays, last-minute deals on concerts, neighborhood crime analysis and similar.

Says Paul Roetzer, CEO, Marketing Artificial Intelligence Institute: “The tech is coming one way or another.

“It’s the human impact that worries me.

“I don’t need a human to do any of what (Google is describing in local news).

“All that data can be generated and processed as text or voice with zero human interaction.

“There’s nothing that needs a human writer.”

*Sign-up: Free, Self-Guided AI in Journalism Course Starts January: Enrollment is already underway for a free course in AI and journalism — sponsored by AI evangelists JournalismAI.

Dubbed “JournalismAI Discovery,” the course offers a look at the key principles of AI-powered news.

JournalismAI Discovery consists of six modules, and combines opportunities for both individual study and collaborative interaction.

*Survey Underway: AI Tool Use In Public Relations: The Chartered Institute of Public Relations is looking for feedback from PR pros on their take on artificial intelligence and the PR industry.

Specifically, CIPR is interested in tools PR pros are using in 2022 — and the role AI plays in their tools, if any.

CIPR’s two previous studies on AI have come with warnings that PR pros need to be more aggressive about adopting the latest in AI.

*Google’s New Wordcraft for Fiction Writers — A ‘Meh’ Reception: The Verge has given Google’s new experimental AI-powered fiction a partial yawn.

Essentially: Wordcraft is not able to auto-generate a complete fictional story.

Instead, it’s better suited to adding spice to your fiction, according to Douglas Eck, senior research director, Google Research.

Observes writer Victoria Song, who gave Wordcraft a test-drive: “After the demo, I couldn’t really picture writing a full story this way.

“But it was a neat way to generate ideas.”

*Using AI for Search Engine Optimization: A Deep Dive: Valentina Izzo, a marketing writer for SEO tool WordLift, offers an in-depth look at how to use AI to optimize your copy in this post.

Included is a use case on how WordLift can be used on an ecommerce Web site.

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Observes Izzo: “We need to keep ‘control’ over content quality and semantic accuracy to avoid unwanted biases and prejudices.”

AI Big Picture: Now We’re Really Getting Somewhere: An Experimental Cure for Baldness: Sooner or later, you knew the best minds in AI were going to come up with something truly world-shaking.

Enter MnPS3, a new compound promising to cure male pattern baldness — courtesy AI research.

So far, MnPS3 is doing better at growing hair back — at least on mice — than Minoxidil, a commercial hair-growing solution that’s been on the market for years.

Observes writer Cassidy Ward: “There’s a long road between mouse model tests and human trials, let alone commercial availability.

“But someday, in the relatively near future, you might be able to upgrade your look — if not your hand-to-hand combat skills — all thanks to artificial intelligence.”

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Joe Dysart is editor of RobotWritersAI.com and a tech journalist with 20+ years experience. His work has appeared in 150+ publications, including The New York Times and the Financial Times of London.

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