VocaTales Bionic Blog

In a small act of rebellion against boring, SEO-driven blog content, VocaTales is embarking on an adventure into the realm of bionic writing: we’re creating a series of blog articles in “collaboration” with generative AI, with a focus on human creativity. 

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That might sound contradictory, or even a little scary – but fear not! We aren’t just fiddling with ChatGPT, copy-pasting the output, and tacking on an “AI-Written” label. Our Bionic format is designed to show the exact differences between human and AI writing, and to allow organic creativity to shine all the brighter against an artificial background. You’ll never have to guess where the line is between a human’s words and a robot’s: our goal is to highlight the truly creative aspect of every post as transparently as possible, by publishing the entire process behind a piece of writing in addition to the final product.

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Here's how that will look, from a reader’s perspective:

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Finished Product First

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100% of our content is written for the benefit of human readers. Ultimately, what matters most is that everything we publish is entertaining and informative for our audience – you! So every bionic blogpost will begin with the finished product up front. You can read and enjoy the content as usual. And if you’re interested in the rest of the story, in exactly how a writer and a robot contributed to the post, you can simply keep scrolling to find out!

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Here’s an example – the first sentence of a bionic paragraph introducing this very blog series:

Welcome to VocaTales’ Bionic Blog! In this series, we’re taking our content sci-fi: our writers are teaming up with the fanciest, nerdiest, most well-read robots the modern age has to offer (LLMs like ChatGPT) to explore the differences between human and generative AI writing.

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Review the Process from Start to Finish

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Directly below the finished blog post, you’ll find the entire creative process that produced it, in the following format – 

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Prompt: The original prompt input to Chat GPT. If multiple prompts were used to arrive at a final version of the AI content, these will all be provided in order. Here’s the original prompt used to arrive at the sample sentence above –  Write an example of a short one paragraph introduction to a blog series comparing human and AI writing. 

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AI Content: The blog content generated by Chat GPT in its full, unedited form. Example– 

Welcome to our whimsical blog series where we embark on a playful quest to uncover the delightful differences between human and generative AI writing!

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Human Edits: The edited version of the AI-generated text in “track changes” mode – the highlighted portions of the text show exactly where the human author has deleted from and added to the AI content. Example– 

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Author Insights 

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At the end of every bionic blogpost, we’ll include a brief commentary by the human writer about their experience “collaborating” with AI – Why did they make certain changes? Where was the artificial text stronger than they expected, and where was it weaker? This is an opportunity for writers to reflect on their own creative process/style, for prompt-engineers to gauge the effectiveness of AI inputs/outputs, and for readers to gain some more direct insights into what differentiates a human creative effort from AI-generated text. 

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What does all this amount to? A useful little scheme for everyone, we hope – on our end, it will make creating SEO-based content easier, more fun, and more interesting for our writers. And (hopefully) rank every post for AI search queries on top of the ones used in specific blog content. But more importantly – it allows readers and writers both to face the question of generative AI head on. Is there a place for AI in content writing? How can it be used effectively, if at all? What value does it add, and what value does it compromise?

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The only way to answer these questions is by putting AI to the test. And it’s an experiment! If our readers and writers aren’t on board, we have our answer, and the test will end. But as long as the content is generating discussion and keeping readers and writers engaged, we’ll keep the Bionic Blog going! Read on to see the first post in full, and let us know what you think of the format!

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