I was at a tech meetup in Austin and saw a demo that made me rethink how I use AI for my small business. It was about using AI to handle customer emails automatically, but the presenter said it could also write product descriptions. I've always done that stuff by hand, but now I'm not sure. Is automating creative writing a good idea or does it make everything sound the same?

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That Austin meetup sounds like the one I went to last month at the Capital Factory. The product description demo was impressive, but I tried a similar tool and the output felt generic after a while. It saves time on the first draft, but you still need a human to make it sound like your actual business. I wouldn't trust it for the final version without heavy editing.

jordan_young1mo ago

What if the generic feel is the tool's real value?

the_drew1mo ago

Honestly, that part about it saving time on the first draft is the whole key for me. Tbh I tried one of those tools for my own site's blog. It gave me this perfectly fine, boring block of text. But it was a block of text I didn't have to start from zero. I just took that and made it sound like me. It's not about letting the robot do the final job, it's about letting it do the worst part.