Like you, Emily, I haven’t really liked using AI for creation. I’ve tried it, and had AI create a cartoonish image for my other blog (Geek on a Harley)- but I felt a bit ‘dirty’ afterwards. I can’t afford a professional artist to make good images, but it feels a bit like stealing food from someone’s mouth to use AI to create something ‘barely good enough’.

AI, or at least the service provided as part of WordPress Jetpack, isn’t so much about grammar and spelling as it is about ‘tone’ and readability analysis.

For example, it might scan my article and say something like “Your overall tone is very negative. Some readers might find this disheartening”, or more practically: “You have a lot of long sentences with big words: try to simplify your writing to make it easier to read”.

Jetpack’s AI also gives me suggestions about adding more links, defining acronyms, breaking the post down into smaller sections… sometimes the recommendations are quite helpful. It can also recommend different titles based on the content.

The AI as used in Jetpack is a bit more like a ‘friendly’ editor than a content creator. I am still getting used to using the capability, but it feels like a ‘good’ use of AI to me. Enough so that I keep running out of the free usage tokens and feeling like I should pay for the upgraded service 😉