I Wish I Hadn’t Lost So Many Medium Friends to ChatGPT

An open message to people using AI on Medium

ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence chatbot tool to help you become the best from the rest.

In recent months, using ChatGPT has become frequent. On January 30, Edward Tian created GPTZero — a tool that detects content written by AI from non-AI content. Thousands of teachers and professors use GPTZero daily to determine if the submitted assignment is humanely written or a by-product of AI.

A teacher or a professor can forgive you once. But the publishing platform never will.

According to the 2019 rule:

“Writers can no longer delete or unlist a post, so in essence, there is no more republication on Medium.”

Even after you delete your story, it is still saved in the eyes of Medium, making it easy to ban any account with proof. Most medium writers are becoming their enemies.

Sure, you can start again later. But what about the time you invested? What about the time you spent and gathered your followers?

Were you kidding yourself?

1. The bootless errand

I agree technology is a blessing.

Don’t fall for every trend. You can experiment with many options, but that doesn’t give you the right to play with your image on Medium. We all know that ChatGPT isn’t a human.

Therefore, the suggestions it gives us are either plagiarized or spun. You’re scaring your caliber of writing a great article and putting trash on your profile.

You have wasted time removing plagiarism from ChatGPT articles when you could have written a (new one) yourself.

Make good choices — especially long term.

2. Have some dignity

It’s not even been a year since ChatGPT.

Many organizations are working on models to terminate people writing from AI. Those organizations don’t know your personally, so you can be banned anytime.

My motto: never fall for something that isn’t in the market for at least (five) years.

Sure, take help from ChatGPT. But only help. Don’t use it to create articles. Medium is a sacred domain, and no one loves to pay $5 for reading AI-written articles. On the other hand, great writers like Tim Denning provide value for reading in terms of experience, that’s sorely lacking in AI-written articles.

3. How do you save yourself?

If you’ve started publishing AI articles on Medium, there’s no sure-fire way to save yourself. Here are a few suggestions you should keep in mind right now:

• Double-check: Scan your article’s plagiarism now and then. Make sure you deliberately don’t get caught.
• Delete it: delete your AI articles.
• Add a declaimer: this is the securest way. Add a declaimer at the end of your article “this article is written by AI/ this article contains pieces written by AI.”

If you haven’t used AI for writing before, never do that.

Since ChatGPT is a new tool, we haven’t seen enough tools to detect AI content for now. Sooner, we will. ChatGPT is a great tool for brainstorming ideas only.

100 million people have seen what ChatGPT can write. The work you pull from AI is naked on the internet for anyone to flag.

Final thoughts:

I don’t want to waste my time on people writing from AI.

I want to read quality content. For that, whenever I feel someone has taken help from AI (how do I know: bland piece, indirect approach), I head to GPTZero and find out the truth.

(90% of the time, my trust is broken.)

Man, people do use AI.

So next time, writers, if your views are low, remember I told you so! Sorry, people who write from AI, I won’t be further reading your posts.

(Peace)

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