Here’s the new pain in the ass thing I’m having to deal with as a copywriter. One of my clients used to send me bullet points and data for me to turn into story-based copy that translates a highly complex topic into easily understandable content.

Now they’re using ChatGPT to create borderline nonsensical garbage and sending that to me to edit/fix, which takes me more time than writing it from scratch. 🤦🏼‍♂️

Anyone else experiencing this or something similar?

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First don’t read it, then toss it into ChatGPT and ask it to convert to bullets, confirm the list covers the main talking points with the client, get down to writing.

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YES. Thank you. One team I work with seems to put their desired topic into ChatGPT and then just send me whatever it spits out despite a complete lack of any concept or actual thought on execution. It’s just nonsensical garbage, as you said. And I’m like, did you read this?

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Ohhhh thank you for this because I've been wondering what the fuck is going on with my client. I can't fix the gibberish they're sending my way

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Counting my lucky stars that I’m not in that situation. Yet.

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Yup.

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Use GPT to fix their GPT

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YES - except it's not the client, it's MY director. You're going to tire yourself out if you consistently try to offer different copy. I would say pick your battles, and use real-world data or best practice if you disagree with the chatgpt. Unfortunately, some stakeholders think it's the end-all, be-all lol

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