If you have not noticed the huge disruption and waves that AI (Artificial Intelligence) has created in the last few years, you may have been in a coma or living in a cave. It’s the biggest buzzword in the world at the moment, and every vendor of any electronic product throws the word around more than Santa Claus dishing out presents on Christmas.

In the content creation business, there are more and more expectations to use AI to increase performance and reduce time to market when creating new material. Unfortunately, this is also backed by everyone wanting to ensure that you didn’t use AI to blindly write everything, enter stage left, the AI checkers. These are, for the most part, the root of a huge amount of pain for me. I have been flagged by customers claiming I used AI when I know I wrote every word, but the opposite is true. Take the first paragraph of this post as a perfect example. It is a post titled “Productivity Hacks for Polymaths: How to Thrive with Many Interests,” and it was 100% written by AI, but AI detectors show it as 98% created by humans. I’ll go into more detail in another post on that, as the point of this particular post is to explain who wrote that article.

Introducing Nova Wilder: My Virtual Co-Author Experiment

As part of my experimentation with AI and the creation of this blog, I had a few things I am curious about.

1. Does AI actually do a better job when writing content when it has no restrictions on it?
2. How does Google treat the content created by AI? In other words, does Google check the content to see if it was created by AI? In addition, does Google rank the material better or worse? I’ll only know this when looking at the analytics further in the future.
3. What does the audience prefer reading? This, again, will only be somewhat testable once analytics for the site start coming in. I’m not expecting any useful results for possibly 6+ months from now, but hey, you have to start somewhere.

So, who exactly is Nova Wilder? Nova WIlder is the pseudonym that ChatGPT chose for itself for creating posts on this blog. Here is the conversation I had with ChatGP:

Out of the names ChatGPT suggested, I liked Nova Wilder the most. Although ChatGPT had mentioned in some of its feedback that I could leave Nova Wilder anonymous and readers of this blog would never know that it was actually AI, I decided to just be upfront about it. Since I’m not just trying to add tons of content for no reason, and there is actually a reason for me using AI on this blog, I’m being transparent and sharing the journey of creation. ChatGPT also created the feature image for this post:

As time goes by and I start getting some stats from Google on how different articles are viewed and discovered, I’ll share that information on this blog. What I will guarantee is that posts written by Aeron Sage will be written entirely by me, a human, and all posts written by Nova Wilder will be left intact and copied and pasted directly from ChatGPT. I’m not even going to tell ChatGPT what to write about. It has already scrapped this site; it knows the categories, and I’ll ask it to write posts of its own choice. This should be interesting.

What are your thoughts? Do you think AI will outperform my posts? Do you think its posts will rank better in Google searches and be more popular? Who’s going to win in the Man vs. Machine blog post battle?