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A phone cleaning app makes $2M/mo on the App Store – The reviews show how

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Re: A phone cleaning app makes $2M/mo on the App Store – The reviews show how

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Post by alexkrkn »

tailspin2019 wrote: post #19
alexkrkn wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Haha it was actually written by a human (me) but I did use AI to proofread (English is not my first language). So the other way around...

It comes across as a bit “wordy” hence maybe triggering some people’s AI “spidey senses” - including mine originally! So perhaps more editing was needed, to distill the message. If English is not your first language then it’s pretty damn good in that context :)

Thanks for the feedback! That's a great point.

I'll try to work on making my writing more concise, based on the comments here.

Re: A phone cleaning app makes $2M/mo on the App Store – The reviews show how

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Post by alexkrkn »

mercwear wrote: post #13
alexkrkn wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Haha it was actually written by a human (me) but I did use AI to proofread (English is not my first language). So the other way around...

Thanks for commenting, I have no reason to not believe you so please take my comment as constructive =) For context, phrases like "We'll take a look at" are what typically lead me to lean towards AI being part of the mix. There are other things about the article that did that too but they may be related to you working in a non-native language.

That's a good point, thanks.

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Post by geekrax »

alexkrkn wrote: post #4
geekrax wrote: post #2

The title, the preamble, and the content of this article feel so click baity and unnecessarily elaborated.

I'm new to blogging about marketing so just doing my best, I usually write about technical topics. Happy to hear what I can improve for my next post, if you have advice.

Understood that you are not native english speaker and use AI to enhance the content. I would advise to ask AI to share some ways to make the content more concise and incorporate learnings from those suggestions rather than copying them directly. That would keep the human element still around.

These days, I personally find articles with minor grammatical errors more interesting than AI assisted/enhanced/corrected content, because AI generated content often comes off bland and loses the rawness of author's intentions. Just personal opinion of course. :)

Re: A phone cleaning app makes $2M/mo on the App Store – The reviews show how

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Post by TylerE »

lunarboy wrote: post #14

The post reads fine, I don't understand why others think it's AI generated. About the post content: I found the analysis itself a bit shallow, but I really appreciate this new perspective on doing review-first analysis without even trying the app first, since it's something I've never considered Thanks for sharing!

If you don't see this as AI generated... I dunno what to tell you. It was pasted right out ChatGPT.. the short paragraphs, passive phrasing, and tone - lots of wiggle phrases like "But not many know about this solution." "Nevertheless, I was surprised to see how many reviewers mentioned in the comments how much storage and time they saved! Some reviews even mention the actual numbers the app gave them." "

Lots of words to say nothing of substance.

If it reads like a bad high school essay - it's ChatGPT!

Re: A phone cleaning app makes $2M/mo on the App Store – The reviews show how

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Post by mrguyorama »

TylerE wrote: post #25
lunarboy wrote: post #14

The post reads fine, I don't understand why others think it's AI generated. About the post content: I found the analysis itself a bit shallow, but I really appreciate this new perspective on doing review-first analysis without even trying the app first, since it's something I've never considered Thanks for sharing!

If you don't see this as AI generated... I dunno what to tell you. It was pasted right out ChatGPT.. the short paragraphs, passive phrasing, and tone - lots of wiggle phrases like "But not many know about this solution." "Nevertheless, I was surprised to see how many reviewers mentioned in the comments how much storage and time they saved! Some reviews even mention the actual numbers the app gave them." " Lots of wor…

>If it reads like a bad high school essay - it's ChatGPT!

The useful part about the "If it's vapid then it's probably an LLM" test is that even if it ISN'T an LLM, it's still vapid and bad in the same way, and basically needs the same solution:

Folks, if you want to write, take writing classes somewhere.

Re: A phone cleaning app makes $2M/mo on the App Store – The reviews show how

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Post by true_religion »

TylerE wrote: post #25
lunarboy wrote: post #14

The post reads fine, I don't understand why others think it's AI generated. About the post content: I found the analysis itself a bit shallow, but I really appreciate this new perspective on doing review-first analysis without even trying the app first, since it's something I've never considered Thanks for sharing!

If you don't see this as AI generated... I dunno what to tell you. It was pasted right out ChatGPT.. the short paragraphs, passive phrasing, and tone - lots of wiggle phrases like "But not many know about this solution." "Nevertheless, I was surprised to see how many reviewers mentioned in the comments how much storage and time they saved! Some reviews even mention the actual numbers the app gave them." " Lots of wor…

ChatGPT didn't learn how to write in that way due to its own efforts. It had to be trained on a mountain of blogspam, which is written in the exact same way.

All ChatGPT does better is produce blogspam with more consistent grammar, and over a wider range of topics than any single person could quickly understand.

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