AI can be extremely helpful to your content marketing initiatives. But think of it as a tool to help you:
- Maximize productivity, particularly for research and data crunching
- Streamline operations by automating tasks
- Provide valuable data trends & insights quickly
- Supplement your efforts at a relatively low cost (depending on the AI tool)
- Brainstorm and organize your ideas into cohesive thoughts
However, AI has some critical limitations too:
- AI’s deep learning doesn’t factor in information since 2021, so recent stats and info may not be included in the results
- Sometimes writes reasonable-sounding but incorrect answers
- Responses can be repetitive
- AI guesses user intent and can provide biased, discriminatory results
- Impersonal and can’t detect or convey emotions like humans can
- If the content lacks E.E.A.T. (experience, expertise, authority & trust), Google won’t rank it because of its poor quality, hurting your SEO
- Anything created by a machine in part or in full cannot claim human authorship and, therefore, cannot be copyrighted and can put your brand at risk
So, use AI as a tool to make your content creation role valuable and continue to get results. But, the people and brands that will continue to stand out will:
- Offer experience-based content, with accurate, real reporting of original information that AI will train on but doesn’t have, nor will it have first-hand experience.
- Report data points and content that is relevant and timely rather than timeless, either actionable or interesting.
- Be willing to make an argument, convey emotion and passion and take a position. Taking positions is – so far – a differentiator from AI.
Contact us if you need help navigating the AI waters and how it can help or hinder your content marketing initiatives.
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