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How to Use ChatGPT Without Letting It Write Your Articles

AI can do more than say, “In conclusion”

Marcus Musick
3 min readJan 4, 2024
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ChatGPT became all the rage within the last year, and it’s not going away anytime soon. While ChatGPT 4 is much better than 3.5, it’s still not the best at writing articles. You can only see so many blog posts with “let’s dive in,” “delve,” “functional,” and “in conclusion” before you want to pull your hair out!

It’s possible to remove all of these words, but the article will still lack personality. The easiest option is to avoid using AI for writing, even if it takes much longer. However, you can still use ChatGPT 4 for a variety of other tasks. Some of these tasks can even help speed up the writing process.

Find New Topics

Coming up with new topics can be a challenge. One way to overcome this issue is to ask ChatGPT for some article ideas. For example, you can ask for cloud computing topics, and it will instantly give you a list. This list of ideas can help you overcome writer’s block and give you the needed creative boost to begin writing.

Create an Outline

Another way AI can help is by creating an outline. You might need seven points for an article, but you can only think of five. Asking it to give you a few more ideas allows…

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Marcus Musick
Marcus Musick

Written by Marcus Musick

Freelance Writer for almost 8 years. Founder of Never Stop Writing. You can reach out to me at https://substack.com/@marcusmusick.

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