Using AI to Assist in Blogging 🤖

Increasingly I am using AI as a force-multiplier to assist in writing text and developing concepts for blogging content. Not replacing myself or just putting endless, mindless content on the internet but using AI to explain core concepts after my own review, and then adding my own insights to the content before pulling it together as a blog post.

AI is a wonderful source of summarization of news articles and concepts in the news. It also can summarize the internet consensus on an issue, which then you can use as a basis to start out a blog post. Some parts of a blog post are just boiler text, many things I don’t have much to add to beyond what the internet already says or is widely known context. In the past, I would have just linked to a news article, but bringing the news here, by using AI generated summaries, then adding my own context, maps, and photos, makes a more satistifying presentation then linking off the blog.

Moreover, the more content that resides locally on my blog rather then linking off becomes potential ad revenue from the blog, to be picked up by search engines and bringing traffic here. It’s great that I am supporting other people’s websites, but I’d sure rather have the revenue here. Not that I make a lot of money on the blog, but it’s nice to cover the blog bills and get rewarded for making quality content, and keep people from having to click off the blog.