How to spot AI generated nutrition blogs

How can you tell if artificial intelligence (AI) wrote something you read online? Well unfortunately since the AI models are so good nowadays, sometimes you won’t be able to! 

It can be amazingly realistic. And as a writer using apps like Chat GPT can save me time identifying topics or answering specific questions.

But I never get them to write a whole article, and here’s why.

What’s the issue with AI content anyway?

Often AI summarises what it finds online. This means correct and incorrect information. I sometimes get amazed by what it will chuck out! 

Most of my IBS nutrition clients have spent hours Googling IBS diets, and how to reduce IBS flare ups, and so on. This means you consume a lot of content – but what if it’s not correct? 

Now Google is also summarising the top links into a AI answer. They take content from the most reliable sources, but sometimes it oversimplifies the results and over time we tend to take it’s answers as the truth.

How can you tell if AI wrote what you consume online? 

AI doesn’t really understand what it’s writing, and is scraping the internet for what’s already published. Your clues to an AI written blog post could be:

Inaccurate or out of date

Because AI is scraping information that’s already online sometimes it can be out of date, or ineffective advice. For example, there are AI recommendations that will tell you gluten is inflammatory, or acid reflux is caused by low stomach acid – when in reality nutrition is more often very nuanced and specific.

There are definitely things to look out for if you read a lot of IBS nutrition blogs.

Sentence length 

AI can often create long sentences that don’t sound like text real people would actually write, or over simplify things. It often feels a bit ‘off’ and repetitive when you read a lot of similar length phrases because humans write in a more fluid way.

Repetition of ideas and terms

You might see the same point repeated in a slightly different way throughout the article. This helps with covering all the bases but can feel a bit laborious when you’re a real human reading it.

Capitalisation Of Every Word In A Heading

This really bugs me when I’m reading if all the words are capitalised! Although I also acknowledge sometimes titles are like this to make it easier to skim read. 

General info with no specific actionable points

When an article is basically a summary of what other websites already say you might find it’s too generalised. Perhaps there are no specific actions, or things you can implement.

All the same tone

The writing will often contain either formal language or full of slang. Most people use a bit of both when they write as a person. 

When you ask AI to write an article you can specify the style of language. For example, you might ask it to be informal and chatty, or educational and for an older reader. This sets the tone for the article but it can be harder to replicate the ebb and flow of a real person. 

Nothing personal from the writer

Obviously an AI model can’t provide anecdotes from a real nutritionist. They can create fake stories or testimonials, but there is little personality in the writing, or emotion. 

No references or scientific evidence for specific points. 

AI is good at generating general references for an article. But it can struggle to provide specific references with clear evidence that actually backs up what it says.

This means when you read an article on IBS diets, it can hard to check whether the content is actually based on valid scientific research or not. (To be fair to AI, some people reference a science paper and the contents of the research doesn’t match up with the point they’re making, so it’s not just AI that does this!)

In conclusion

It can be tough to figure out whether an article is AI written or not. As well as considering all these kinds of points do go and seek people out on social media so you can see what they are like in the flesh.

What do they sound like when they speak? It’s easier to check up on someone if you know what kind of things they talk about in real life. 

If you want to see me in videos I often talk about IBS, gue health and SIBO on Instagram – www.instagram.com/goodnessme_nutrition.

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