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Despite a flurry of new AI engines just released by OpenAI, the current default engine for the chatbot – ChatGPT-4o – is still the best, overall solution for writing.

That said, users may want to give the new OpenAI-o3 model a run if they’re looking for better reasoning and overall better performance when engaging in math, coding, science and other hard sciences.

Ditto for OpenAI-o4-mini and OpenAI-o4 mini-high. Both are designed to be less expensive to run than OpenAI-o3, but are touted as nearly as good as Open-AI-o3.

Plus, there is also a separate set of new AI engines – dubbed the GPT-4.1 family – also specially designed for help with computer coding.

Last, but not least, there’s also a GPT-4.5, which is sometimes better for writing than ChatGPT-4o.

But the AI engine is generally only available for limited use.

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*ChatGPT Beats TikTok and Instagram in Downloads: In another popularity wars head-turner, ChatGPT became the most downloaded non-gaming app in March – beating-out TikTok and Instagram.

Observes writer Sarah Perez: “This is the first time the app has topped the monthly download charts and ChatGPT’s biggest month ever.

”According to new data, ChatGPT’s installs jumped 28% from February to March to reach 46 million new downloads during March.”

*The Shift: With AI Search Decimating Trips to Web Sites, Publishers Need to ‘Own’ Their Audiences: Given that Google’s AI Overview search service has reduced click-throughs to content sites by 54.6%, publishers need to develop readership not dependent on search, according to writer Lester Mapp.

The problem: The summaries provided by AI Overview are so good, the majority of people never bother clicking through to the info sources – media outlets, blogs, newsletters, etc. – feeding those summaries.

The solution: Publishers need to spend more time building their own audiences via newsletter and interaction on social media.

*New WordPress Add-On Automates Content Personalization: Writers working with WordPress can now use new AI to reconfigure a visitor’s reading journey based on individual interest.

Dubbed CHRS Interactive, the new suite of AI tools also helps automate Web site tasks and easily surface actionable insights.

Overall, the service is designed so that the AI interacts seamlessly with the writer’s/publisher’s existing WordPress Web site.

*Microsoft CoPilot Can Now Surf the Web With You: New AI added to CoPilot – and a key competitor to ChatGPT – now allows the app to surf the Web with you and ‘see what you see.’

The new capability is designed to help users interpret what they’re reading and seeing on their screens as they surf the Web – as well as help them use the Web apps they encounter.

The new AI feature also works offline for you – seeing what you see on your screen and helping you understand and work with what’s there.

*Google Docs Now Reads Your Writing Aloud: Take any college course in writing, and you’ll get the recommendation that reading your writing aloud is a great way to reveal what’s good and lacking in your authorship.

Fortunately, you can now have Google Docs read your writing aloud to get the same feedback – thanks to new AI Google added to the app.

Observes writer Jose Enrico: “This AI integration acts as a virtual writing assistant, providing you with a second pair of “ears” to pick up errors and hone clarity. It is especially useful for longer pieces where fatigue may blur objectivity.”

*ChatGPT-Competitor Claude Adds Independent Research: In the seemingly never-ending one-upmanship in AI research, Claude has added a new feature that enables the AI chatbot to do unsupervised research for you.

Observes writer Michael Nunez: “The new research capability enables Claude to independently conduct multiple searches that build upon each other while determining what to investigate next.

”Simultaneously, the Google Workspace integration connects Claude to users’ emails, calendars, and documents — eliminating the need for manual uploads.”

*Top Ten AI SEO Tools for Writers: Writer Osamu Ekhator offers an extremely in-depth look at the best SEO Tools for writers in this piece.

Some of Ekhator’s key takeaways:

~Some of the top AI SEO tools in 2025 include Writesonic, Surfer, and Jasper AI.

~Free AI-powered SEO tools like ChatGPT offer keyword suggestions and content ideas at no cost.

~YouTube SEO tools such as TubeBuddy and VidIQ help optimize video content for better discoverability.

*AI In Education: Using AI to Develop Critical Thinking: In a maverick move, a professor at the University of Nebraska Omaha is using AI to teach college students how to think critically.

Her approach: Students used ChatGPT to brainstorm research questions – then refined the AI’s responses into clearer, more usable questions when appropriate.

Plus, the students also used ChatGPT to develop an overall outline for a paper, which was again refined and sharpened as needed by the students.

Observes Martian Saltamacchia, PhD, the professor who came up with the novel approach: “My students have become more engaged in discussions about historical methodology, authorship, and the ethics of AI in scholarship.

“Many of them now feel more confident in their ability to use AI strategically while recognizing its limitations.

“More significantly, they have developed a deeper awareness of intellectual processes, understanding not just what they are doing in research and writing, but why these steps matter.”

*AI Big Picture: Marketing Campaigns Completely Automated by AI: Just a Matter of Time?: The days when entire marketing campaigns will be completely handled by AI may be soon upon us, according to writer Patrick Coffee.

Consumer health products company Opella “operates an AI ‘factory’ that produces advance care planning materials for medical professionals alongside the hundreds of Web pages, images and Instagram posts that it generates every day,” according to Coffee.

And marketing and tech services firm Monks recently released a minute-long video prototype for Puma that was fully AI-generated, according to Coffee.

The prediction of the fully automated marketing campaign makes sense.

Last year, the BBC released a bone-chilling example of how a 60+ marketing team was reduced to one editor after the introduction of AI.

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College students in the U.S. and Canada now have a standing invitation to try ChatGPT Plus — normally $20/month — gratis.

The free ride, which lasts through May 31, should be a big hit with those in the university set, who are by far the number one users of ChatGPT.

Observes writer Michael Nunez: “The education market represents a crucial battleground for AI companies.

“According to OpenAI, over one-third of U.S. adults aged 18-24 already use ChatGPT — with approximately 25% of their queries related to academic work.”

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*ChatGPT Now Interfaces With Your Company Data: Writers who use ChatGPT at work should appreciate this new perk: You can now link ChatGPT to your company’s internal database.

Observes writer Emilia David: “ChatGPT Team users — one of the company’s paid tiers — can connect internal knowledge databases directly to the platform.”

The advanced capability — fusing ChatGPT to business data — is the number one most requested feature from businesses, according to Nate Gonzalez, product leader, OpenAI.

*ChatGPT Gets a Memory Boost: ChatGPT’s memory — which helps many writers by getting to know how and why they’re using ChatGPT — just got a boost.

Writer Cecily Mauran reports that “ChatGPT can now reference all of your past chats to provide more personalized responses.

“In addition to the saved memories that were there before, it can now reference your past chats to deliver responses that feel noticeably more relevant and useful.”

*One Writer’s Take: Top Ten Tools for AI Research: Scribes who rely heavily on AI for daily research will want to check-out this extremely in-depth guide by Osamu Ekhator.

Ekhator’s highlights on his ten favorite AI research tools: “The best AI for research supports tasks like idea generation, content creation and data analysis.

“AI tools like ChatGPT and Grammarly are exceptional for enhancing research writing and improving text quality.”

*Google Deep Research Gets an Upgrade: Writer Abner Li indicates that fans of Google Deep Research will find that the AI tool now has more punch.

Observes Li: “Gemini Advanced subscribers can now perform Deep Research with Google’s most intelligent 2.5 Pro (experimental) model.”

“Google says ‘raters preferred the reports generated by Gemini Deep Research powered by 2.5 Pro over other leading deep research providers by more than a 2-to-1 margin.'”

*Google Beefs-Up AI in Google Workspace: Writers using the globally popular Google Workspace platform can look forward to more AI in the apps they use there.

Writer Sabrina Ortiz reports that Google Meets, Chat, Docs, Vids and Sheets in Workspace have all been enhanced by AI with a new upgrade.

Adds Ortiz: “The updates even include agentic AI capabilities.”

*Horse Race for ‘Top AI Engine’ Crown: Much Tighter: There’s great news for writers and others who believe that fierce competition among top AI writers/chatbots keeps prices low.

A new study from Stanford University finds there are more contenders in the horse race of AI writers/chatbots — and that there is just a smidgeon of distance between the leader and the tenth-place contender.

Observes writer Tiernan Ray: “When ChatGPT first emerged, the top large language models (AI engines) were dominated by OpenAI and Google.

“That field now includes China’s DeepSeek AI, Elon Musk’s xAI, Anthropic, Meta Platform’s Meta AI and Mistral AI.”

*Get a Quick-Study on AI — Free-of-Charge: ChatGPT’s-maker OpenAI is offering a slew of free courses on the myriad facets of the new tech, dubbed ‘OpenAI Academy.”

Observes writer Pragati Chougule: “The academy offers a comprehensive suite of courses — covering fundamental concepts in AI, machine learning and deep learning.

“These courses are designed for individuals with varying levels of expertise — from beginners to experienced professionals.”

*Now Made by AI: 30,000 Hyper-Local Newsletters: Thousands of town and neighborhood newsletters once curated by human beings are now being processed by AI, according to newsletter giant Patch.

Essentially, Patch discovered that the hyper-local newsletters simply could not be sustained using human curation.

Observes Simone Wilson, former product manager, Patch, explaining the need for the switch: “There were certain communities where we couldn’t sell an ad to save our lives.”

*AI BIG PICTURE: Online Store Goliath Decrees: ‘No New Hires if AI Can Do the Job:’ Managers at online store platform Shopify just got a wake-up call from their CEO: If AI can do a job, don’t dare hire a human for the role.

Observes Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke: “Before asking for more headcount and resources, teams must demonstrate why they cannot get what they want done using AI.”

Ask yourself, Lutke adds: “What would this area look like if autonomous AI agents were already part of the team?”

So much for AI as the ‘happy, innocuous, buddy collaborator.’

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–Joe Dysart is editor of RobotWritersAI.com and a tech journalist with 20+ years experience. His work has appeared in 150+ publications, including The New York Times and the Financial Times of London.

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This year’s first quarter served-up a number of watershed moments in the breakneck development of AI writers / chatbots.

ChatGPT continued to turn heads with the announcement by its maker – OpenAI – that 400 million people now visit the ChatGPT Web site every week.

And ChatGPT also unveiled a number of new upgrades – including major advances in AI imaging, editing and overall writing performance for writers.

Meanwhile, a dark horse AI writer/chatbot from China – DeepSeek – stunned the world by releasing a chatbot alternative that was nearly as good as ChatGPT, but only cost pennies-on-the-dollar to make.

Here’s a look at all the stories for Q1 that convinced many writers – as well as those across a wide spectrum of industries — that we are now living in an ‘AI First’ world:

 *New Study Finds AI-Powered Writing a Big Hit Among Many White Collar Pros: Stanford University researchers have found that AI writing is being heavily embraced by many white collar workers.

Observes writer Matthias Bastian: “The impact is particularly noticeable in press releases, where up to 24% of content now comes from generative AI systems, or shows significant AI modification.

“The researchers suspect that actual AI adoption rates are higher than their analysis suggests.

“It likely missed heavily human-edited content and text from advanced AI models that closely mimic human writing.

“The study also didn’t examine other potential AI writing use cases, such as social media content creation.”

*Give ChatGPT a Standardized Personality – Including One that Edits: ChatGPT has come out with a new feature that enables you to create a standardized personality for the AI.

Essentially, you can now program ChatGPT to assume the personality and skills of a witty copy editor with deep knowledge of AI and a penchant for detail, for example — and rest assured that ChatGPT will assume that personality each time you log-on.

Before the new feature, users already had the ability to create the same personality for ChatGPT – but the prompt for the personality needed to be loaded into ChatGPT’s message box before each use.

*’Tweaked’ AI Writing Can Now Be Copyrighted: In a far-reaching decision, the U.S. Copyright Office has ruled that AI-generated content — modified by humans — can now be copyrighted.

The move has incredibly positive ramifications for writers who polish output from ChatGPT and similar AI to create blog posts, articles, books, poetry and more.

Observes writer Jacqueline So: “The U.S. Copyright Office processes approximately 500,000 copyright applications each year, with an increasing number being requests to copyright AI-generated works.”

“Most copyright decisions are made on a case-to-case basis.”

*ChatGPT’s Online Editor Gets an Upgrade: Released just a few months ago, ChatGPT’s online editor ‘Canvas’ just got a performance boost.

The tool — great for polishing-up text created with ChatGPT — now runs on ChatGPT-o1, an AI engine that has been hailed for its advanced reasoning capabilities.

Observes writer Eric Hal Schwartz: “You can enable the o1 model in Canvas by selecting it from the model picker or typing the command: /canvas.”

For a comprehensive tour of ChatGPT’s editor, check out: “Ultimate Guide: New ChatGPT Editor, Canvas.”

*ChatGPT Sets New Record: 400 Million Weekly Users: Despite impressive challenges from competitors, ChatGPT still dominates the AI landscape — currently serving 400 million users each week.

Even better: ChatGPT use in business has also doubled in less than six months and is currently used at more than two million enterprises, according to writer Michael Nunez.

Observes Nunez: “The surge in enterprise adoption represents a crucial validation of OpenAI’s strategy to position ChatGPT as not just a chatbot for casual queries, but as a serious productivity tool for businesses.”

*The Number One Users of ChatGPT: Students: ChatGPT-Maker’s CEO Sam Altman just disclosed an eye-opening revelation in the Wall Street Journal: Most of the people using ChatGPT are students.

Given that 400 million people now visit the ChatGPT Web site every week, that means approximately 300-350 million of the people using ChatGPT are students (most).

The takeaway: The statistic explains that while ChatGPT can reduce writing time for simple tasks like email by as much as 90% or more, students are the people who have picked-up and run with that realization – not business pros.

That’s a problem for the lion’s share of business people who ‘get’ that AI writing is not simply coming – it’s here – but have yet to add AI to their toolbox.

Essentially: Colleges in the U.S. alone release 4 million new graduates each year into the U.S. workforce.

And you can bet that since 2023 — when ChatGPT became a force to be reckoned with across the globe — most U.S. college graduates walked into their first jobs already knowing how to automate their business writing with AI.

Something tells me their older brothers and sisters have gotten the memo, too.

*AI as Writing Instructor: K-12 Teachers Continue the Experiment: Despite fears that AI will undermine the learning of critical thinking, increasing numbers of teachers are embedding the tech in their day-to-day courses.

Observes writer Kayla Jimenez: “English teachers told USA TODAY they use AI tools to create homework assignments and quizzes. Others said the technology can take the place of a private tutor for their students — which reduces their workloads.”

Overall, 40% of U.S. English teachers have used AI in the classroom, according to a survey of 12,000 teachers and principals conducted by RAND American Educator Panels.

*Apple Kills Its AI News Summary Service: Smarting from glaring mistakes made by its AI news summary service, Apple has pulled the plug on the AI — at least for now.

One of the highest profile news media outlets disenchanted with Apple’s service is the BBC.

Earlier this month, Apple’s AI news summary service mistakenly reported that alleged CEO killer Luigi Mangione had shot himself — wrongly citing the BBC as the source of its summary.

Observes writer Tripp Mickle: “In a note to developers, Apple said it was working to improve summaries of notifications for news and entertainment apps.

“It plans to make the feature available again in a future software update.”

*ChatGPT’s New AI Image-Maker: ‘Astounding:’ ChatGPT’s new AI-image generator – perfect for writers looking to add supplemental images to their copy — has become a viral sensation across the Web.

Simultaneously embraced by millions of users as AI imaging’s ‘Next Big Thing,’ the new tool has been described as an ‘astounding’ leap forward by Al Samson, a graphic artist with 15+ years experience.

Essentially, the new tool features stunning imaging, extreme detail and much more control over the final image users are looking to create, according to Samson.

A few of the near-infinite number of use cases available with the AI imager include:
~precise image rendering in a photo-realistic or illustration style
~the ability to tweak an image of yourself to make yourself
look ‘more handsome,’ ‘more beautiful’ – or more or less exude any number of other qualities
~the ability to drop a reliable image of your product into any scene you can imagine
~instant-rendering of any image in your brand colors
~instantly recognizable caricatures of celebrities and the famous
~instant creation of a comic-strip in your desired style

While not perfect, Samson says the new imaging tool – which replaces ChatGPT imaging that used to run on the DALL-E AI imaging engine has grabbed the crown as “the best image-generation tool on the market.”

(Fans of DALL-E can still find that imaging tool in ChatGPT’s “GTPs” section.)

For an extremely informed and nuanced overview of everything ChatGPT’s new imaging tool has to offer, check-out Samson’s in-depth, extremely insightful, 29-minute video on the upgrade.

*How DeepSeek Outsmarted the Market and Built a Highly Competitive AI Writer/Chatbot: New York Times writer Cade Metz offers an insightful look in this piece into how newcomer DeepSeek built its AI for pennies-on-the-dollar.

The chatbot stunned AI researchers — and roiled the stock market in February — after showing the world it could develop advanced AI for six million dollars.

DeepSeek’s secret: Moxie. Facing severely restricted access to the bleeding-edge chips needed to develop advanced AI, DeepSeek made-up for that deficiency by writing code that was much smarter and much more efficient than that of many competitors.

The bonus for consumers: “Because the Chinese start-up has shared its methods with other AI researchers, its technological tricks are poised to significantly reduce the cost of building AI.”

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–Joe Dysart is editor of RobotWritersAI.com and a tech journalist with 20+ years experience. His work has appeared in 150+ publications, including The New York Times and the Financial Times of London.

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ChatGPT’s new AI-image generator – perfect for writers looking to add supplemental images to their copy — has become a viral sensation across the Web.

Simultaneously embraced by millions of users as AI imaging’s ‘Next Big Thing,’ the new tool has been described as an ‘astounding’ leap forward by Al Samson, a graphic artist with 15+ years experience.

Essentially, the new tool features stunning imaging, extreme detail and much more control over the final image users are looking to create, according to Samson.

A few of the near-infinite number of use cases available with the AI imager include:
~precise image rendering in a photo-realistic or illustration style
~the ability to tweak an image of yourself to make yourself
look ‘more handsome,’ ‘more beautiful’ – or more or less any number of other qualities
~the ability to drop a reliable image of your product into any scene you can imagine
~instant-rendering of any image in your brand colors
~instantly recognizable caricatures of celebrities and the famous
~instant creation of a comic-strip in your desired style

While not perfect, Samson says the new imaging tool – which replaces ChatGPT imaging that used to run on the DALL-E AI imaging engine has grabbed the throne as “the best image-generation tool on the market.”

(Fans of DALL-E can still find that imaging tool in ChatGPT’s “GTPs” section.)

For an extremely informed and nuanced overview of everything ChatGPT’s new imaging tool has to offer, check-out Samson’s in-depth, extremely insightful, 29-minute video on the upgrade.

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*35% of Office Workers Now Use ChatGPT: Apparently, being first with a magical new tech has its advantages.

A new study from DeskTime finds that 35% of office workers worldwide now use ChatGPT in some capacity.

In contrast, office worker use of ChatGPT competitors – like Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude and Xai Grok – pales in comparison.

*AI Now a Major Force in Press Release Writing: A new study from Stanford University finds that 24% of press releases are now written by AI.

Observes Stanford University researcher Weixin Liang: “Even high-level international organizations like the United Nations showed roughly 14% LLM (AI chatbot) usage in its press releases.”

Adds writer Tor Constantino: “The research is among the largest empirical investigations of AI writing adoption, reviewing more than 300 million online documents and posts between 2022 and 2024.”

*Google Lunges Ahead to Number One Spot with New Chatbot Upgrade: In the never-ending horserace among the top AI chatbots, Google has lunged into first-place with its new Gemini 2.5 upgrade.

With the overhaul, the Gemini 2.5 chatbot beats-by-a-nose fierce competitors like ChatGPT, Anthropic Claude and Xai Grok.

Observes writer Amanda Caswell: “Gemini 2.5 is designed to comprehend vast amounts of data and handle complex problems across various information sources — including text, audio, images, video and even code repositories.”

*Another Columnist Discovers ChatGPT Can Do His Job: Add columnist Harley Hays to the growing cadre of writers who are discovering – often uncomfortably – that they have nothing on ChatGPT.

Hays asked ChatGPT to try its hand at writing the kind of columns he writes – and also to write columns using his personal writing style.

Hays’ reaction: Yikes!

*AI Writing Tools, On-the-Cheap: A new aggregation app – dubbed ‘Together Chat’ – is now offering free access to a number of AI writers/chatbots – although they’re not state-of-the art.

Writers looking to try-out a number of AI writers at no cost can sample an early version of the DeepSeek chatbot using the free Together Chat app – as well as versions of Llama, Qwen and Flux Schnell.

Observes Hassan El Mghari: “Whether you’re brainstorming ideas, drafting code, doing research with the Web, generating images, or exploring creative writing, Together Chat puts cutting-edge open-source AI at your fingertips.”

*Google Docs to Get AI Summaries: Google is promising to soup-up Google Docs with AI designed to summarize its documents for you.

Observes Jorge A. Aguilar: “Gemini’s summary can be added directly to the document, and users can update it if they change the original content.

“The AI summary tool is basically meant to make long documents easier to read and understand.”

*New Guide Released on ChatGPT for Work: OpenAI has dropped a new AI video primer on how to get the most from ChatGPT at work.

The video explores how ChatGPT has evolved since its introduction – including its enhancements in interactivity and customization.

The video also explores how ChatGPT can be used to work independently on specific tasks for you at work.

*The AI Takeover of Customer Service is Well Underway: A new study from Forrester Consulting finds that 52% of business decision-makers are looking to integrate AI into their customer service.

Observes Pete Lavache, CMO, Avaya – the company that commissioned the Forrester study:

“Companies know exceptional customer experiences drive revenue.

“The major hurdle is being able to actually orchestrate those experiences leveraging any — or every — AI tool they choose.”

*AI BIG PICTURE: Chinese ChatGPT Competitor: Ferociously Closing the Gap: China – once perceived as a year or more behind the U.S. in AI development – has quickly closed the gap with its new AI chatbot DeepSeek.

These days, China is probably just three months behind the U.S. in some facets of AI development because of its products like DeepSeek, according to AI expert Lee Kai-fu.

Moreover, Kai-fu added that on a few AI frontiers, China has actually pulled ahead of the U.S. in AI sophistication.

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–Joe Dysart is editor of RobotWritersAI.com and a tech journalist with 20+ years experience. His work has appeared in 150+ publications, including The New York Times and the Financial Times of London.

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New Study Finds AI Popular Among Less-Educated

New research from Stanford University reveals that ChatGPT and similar AI writers are surprisingly popular among those with less formal education.

Essentially, researchers found that regions in the U.S. featuring more tradespeople, artisans, craftsmen and similar are using AI writing more than people living in areas where college degrees are more prevalent.

The telling stats: 19.9% of people living in ‘less educated’ areas of the U.S. have adopted AI writing tools like ChatGPT – as compared to 17.4% in regions with higher education profiles.

Even more dramatic: Adoption in the state of Arkansas, where college degrees are less prevalent: A full 30% of people in Arkansas are using ChatGPT and similar AI to auto-write letters to businesses and government organizations.

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*Microsoft’s ChatGPT Competitor – Copilot – Gets an Upgrade: Microsoft has rolled-out a new version of its AI writer/chatbot Copilot, which it says is now more deeply embedded into its Windows software.

In part, the change was made in response to user complaints over previous versions of Copilot, which they say operated more like a ‘wrapper’ or outside app that ‘felt’ only weakly linked to Windows software.

With the upgrade, Microsoft is promising users will see marked performance gains from Copilot.

*ChatGPT Competitor Claude: Great for Auto-Writing Pre-Meeting Reports: Mike Krieger, chief product officer, Anthropic is pushing a new use case for the company’s ChatGPT-competitor, Claude.

Essentially, the AI tech can be used to scan calendars and company data to auto-write detailed client reports before a meeting, according to Krieger.

Observes writer Muslim Farooque: “With this move, Anthropic is taking on big players like Microsoft, OpenAI, and Google — all racing to dominate AI-powered business tools.

*One Writer’s Take: Google Has the Best AI Writing Editor: Count writer Amanda Caswell is among those who strongly prefer Google’s new editor for AI writing – Canvas – over ChatGPT’s online editor that carries the same name.

Observes Caswell: “Gemini Canvas is far more thorough and detailed in its critique than ChatGPT Canvas. It’s essentially a real editor. ChatGPT made me feel like my mom was editing the story and was sparing my feelings.

“In a word: Wow.”

*College Rolling-out New Certificate in AI Writing: Beginning Fall 2025, students at Boise State College can obtain a certificate in AI writing after completing three courses on the discipline.

Those are:

~Writing For/With AI

~Applications of AI (with a strong focus on content production)

~Style and the Future of AI Writing

*AI Tech Titans Want to Use Copyrighted Writing for Free: ChatGPT-maker OpenAI – and Google – are looking for clearance from the U.S. government to train their AI on newspaper, magazine and other copyrighted text on the Web for free.

The reason: Given China’s recent major gains in tightening-up the AI race, U.S. AI purveyors need every advantage to stay ahead of China.

Currently, many content creators – including The New York Times – are suing OpenAI for using their content to train ChatGPT without permission.

*On the Research Bench: Text-To-Data-Driven Slides: Adobe is currently experimenting with new AI tech that promises to convert data-heavy research into vibrant slide presentations in Powerpoint.

Dubbed ‘Project Slide Wow,’ the experimental tech is aimed at marketers and business analysts looking to quickly build data-backed presentations without being forced to manually structure content or design slides.

Observes Jane Hoffswell, research scientist, Adobe: “It’s analyzing all the charts in this project, generating captions for them, organizing them into a narrative and creating the presentation slides.”

Currently, Adobe has no firm release date for the experimental slide-maker.

*ChatGPT-Maker’s AI Agents: The Complete Rundown: Writer Siddhese Bawker offers an excellent overview in this piece on the tiers of AI agents currently available from OpenAI.

Such agents are able to work independently on a task for you, which might include clicking-and-pointing with your browser to research, analyze and then auto-write on what it found.

Even better: Extremely advanced AI agents are able to perform such tasks with PhD-level intelligence.

OpenAI’s entry-level agent is included in a ChatGPT Pro subscription ($200/month.)

Higher level agents are OpenAI’s Knowledge Worker Agent ($200/month), Developer Agent ($10,000/month) and Research Agent ($20,000/month).

*ChatGPT Wants to be the Interface for Your Data: Businesses hoping to integrate their databases with ChatGPT — so they can use the AI to analyze and auto-write reports about that data and more — may not have to wait long.

Writer Kyle Wiggers reports that OpenAI is currently testing in-house developed ‘connectors’ that will ideally make such fusions possible.

So far, development of connectors to Google Drive and Slack is already underway.

Observes Wiggers: “ChatGPT Connectors will allow ChatGPT Team subscribers to link workspace Google Drive and Slack accounts to ChatGPT so the chatbot can answer questions informed by files, presentations, spreadsheets and Slack conversations.”

*AI BIG PICTURE: New Hyper-Realistic Voice AI Goes Viral: A new AI voice sensation – Sesame AI – appears ready to dethrone Eleven Labs as the industry standard in realistic voice AI.

Essentially, the Web has blown-up with praise for Sesame AI, which apparently generates AI voices that are so real and human, their sheer intimacy disturbs some people.

Even so: AI Uncovered – producer of this 11-minute video – does note that Eleven Labs still beats Sesame AI when it comes to auto-generating spoken word from a script.

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–Joe Dysart is editor of RobotWritersAI.com and a tech journalist with 20+ years experience. His work has appeared in 150+ publications, including The New York Times and the Financial Times of London.

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ChatGPT-Maker’s CEO Sam Altman just disclosed an eye-opening revelation in the Wall Street Journal: Most of the people using ChatGPT are students.

Given that 400 million people now visit the ChatGPT Web site every week, that means approximately 300-350 million of the people using ChatGPT are students (most).

The takeaway: The statistic explains that while ChatGPT can reduce writing time for simple tasks like email by as much as 90% or more, students are the people who have picked-up and run with that realization – not business pros.

That’s a problem for the lion’s share of business people who ‘get’ that AI writing is not simply coming – it’s here – but have yet to add AI to their toolbox.

Essentially: Colleges in the U.S. alone release 4 million new graduates each year into the U.S. workforce.

And you can bet that since 2023 — when ChatGPT became a force to be reckoned with across the globe — most U.S. college graduates walked into their first jobs already knowing how to automate their business writing with AI.

Something tells me their older brothers and sisters have gotten the memo, too.

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*ChatGPT-Maker Experimenting With Turbo-Charged Creative Writer: OpenAI is currently experimenting with a new AI chatbot it believes produces its best, automated creative writing yet.

Observes OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: “This is the first time I have been really struck by something written by AI.

“It got the vibe of metafiction so right.”

So far, OpenAI has no plans to release the experimental AI writer to the public.

*Google Releases ‘Nearly as Good AI’ That Runs on a Single Chip: Google has released a new family of AI engines that are nearly as good as bleeding edge AI — but are able to run on a single chip.

The theory: By offering somewhat less than state-of-the-art performance, the stripped-down AI will not need a series of expensive chips to produce results.

Instead, the AI can run locally on a desktop, laptop, smartphone or similar hardware – representing major cost savings as compared to going to the cloud for computations.

*New Chinese AI Agent Takes On ChatGPT-Maker: A new, experimental AI agent – dubbed Manus – has gone viral, amazing writers and others with its ability to perform independent, automated tasks on a computer.

The new AI competes directly with a similar AI agent – Operator – which is offered by OpenAI under its $200/month ChatGPT Pro subscription.

Theoretically, writers using the agent-creating software will be able to:

~Automatically research an article on the Web
~Scout for quotes to go along with that research from blogs and press releases
~Auto-write the article in a preferred writing style
~SEO-optimize the article for easy discovery by search engines
~Periodically research the Web for new developments in
the article’s story
~Continually re-rewrite the article as new developments in the article’s story occur

*Local News Media Using AI to Monitor Public Meetings: Nonprofit education news service Chalkbeat is currently using AI to monitor public meetings in about 80 school districts across 30 states.

The tech, dubbed LocalLens, listens-in on the public meetings, then uses AI to transcribe, summarize and archive what’s said.

Observes Eric Gorski, a managing editor at Chalkbeat: “We are going to be in the rooms where we need to be, where the big decisions are being made, but we can’t be everywhere all the time.”

“The summaries are springboards for more reporting. It’s not a replacement for coverage. And we’re not trusting AI to get these things right. It’s more like a news tip.”

Back in the day, when I got my first job in journalism, covering local school district and local government meetings used to be the sole purview of human beings.

And one of those human beings happened to be me.

*Small Business Software Adds AI-Written Reports: Pipedrive, a maker of customer relationship management software, has made it easier for salespeople to auto-generate reports using AI.

Observes Viktoria Ruubel, CPO, Pipedrive: “With AI-powered report creation, sales teams can now shift their focus to what truly matters – analyzing trends, identifying opportunities and making informed decisions within seconds.”

Pipedrive took special care to ensure the reports can be easily generated by natural language prompts.

Plus, the new AI report-writer also comes with 14, prefabricated prompts to generate commonly needed reports.

*AI Fiction Writer Out With an Upgrade: AI creative writing pioneer Sudowrite has released a new update that promises to deliver prose that sounds more original – and eschews clichés.

Dubbed Muse, the new module’s emphasis on originality was engineered in collaboration with hundreds of authors, according to Sudowrite founder James Yu.

Sudowrite currently runs on a number of AI engines, including ChatGPT, Claude and DeepSeek.

*AI-Powered Search Engines Wrong 60% of the Time: AI companies looking to steal Google’s thunder by branching out into search have been hit with a hard dose of reality.

On average, the citations they use to certify their search results to users are wrong more than 60% of the time, according to a new study from the Tow Center – although some tools performed better than others.

Observes writer Andrew Deck: “Perplexity, which brands itself as a tool for research, had the lowest failure rate, answering incorrectly 37% of the time.

“Meanwhile, Grok-3 Search had the highest failure rate at 94%.”

*Microsoft Puts More Daylight Between Itself and ChatGPT-Maker: Microsoft and OpenAI – once the dynamic duo when it came to all things AI – continue to drift apart.

Specifically, Microsoft says its developing in-house AI engines – dubbed MAI — being designed to compete directly with the AI engines that power ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Grok.

The news comes on the heels of a report that ChatGPT-maker OpenAI just inked a $11.9 billion dollar deal with CoreWeave, which will provide servers and other infrastructure to help drive OpenAI’s software.

Used to be, Microsoft was the overwhelming, go-to trading partner for such infrastructure services.

*AI BIG PICTURE: AI and Our Future: ChatGPT Competitor Anthropic’s View: This one-hour video from the Council on Foreign Relations offers one of the most lucid perspectives on the anticipated impact of AI in recent memory.

It features an interview with Dario Amodei, CEO, Anthropic – the maker of Claude, a fierce competitor to market-leader ChatGPT.

Not to be missed.

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The Economic Times reports that the latest upgrade to
ChatGPT — ChatGPT-4.5 — is currently best-in-class.

While many competitors are nearly as good, ChatGPT-4 currently has no equal when it comes to creative writing, handling long-form queries and prompts and engaging in in-depth conversations, according to the Times.

The source of the Economic Times’ report is a popular AI rating service, LMArena.

Volunteers visiting LMArena evaluate AI by testing two unidentified and randomly selected chatbots — and then rating which chatbot responds to their prompt best.

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*Facebook’s Parent Company Promising ChatGPT Competitor: Facebook inventor Mark Zuckerberg is currently developing a direct competitor to ChatGPT, according to Euro News.

Zuckerberg already has AI software – dubbed Llama – that competes on par with the AI software undergirding ChatGPT.

But so far, Zuckerberg’s AI has only been integrated into various platforms owned by Facebook parent company Meta – and never unveiled as a stand-alone, ChatGPT competitor.

*AI Now Great at Conducting Interviews, Too: Veteran journalist Alex Kantrowitz has discovered a disturbing truth.

Not only can AI write incredibly well: It can also conduct interviews like a news reporter.

Case in point: Kantrowitz says a fellow journalist – Evan Ratliff – recently used voice-powered AI to conduct an interview with a tech CEO.

The result, according to Kantrowitz: “When Ratliff listened to the recording, he was surprised to find the CEO really opened up.

“He was a little more forthcoming with the AI than he was with me,” Ratliff told me.

“There’s a quality of, you don’t necessarily feel like there’s someone there and you might be a little more intimate than you would have otherwise. And that can be very valuable in an interview for a reporting project.”

*ChatGPT-Maker Mulling $20,000/Month Charge for Advanced AI Agents: AI’s Next Big Thing – AI agents that can work autonomously and do things like operate on the Web on your behalf – may be coming with a hefty price tag.

ChatGPT-Maker OpenAI is reportedly weighing a $20,000/month charge for a PhD-level agent designed to do highly advanced research for you.

Meanwhile, AI software developer agents might go for $10,000/month and a knowledge worker agent is being floated at $2,000/month.

Wow — from ‘AI collaborator’ to ‘AI employee.’

That was fast.

*Microsoft Copilot Offers More Freebies: Users of ChatGPT competitor MS Copilot now have two more reasons to stick with the chatbot: Free access to ThinkDeeper and voice.

Like many new deep research tools cropping-up in the market, Copilot ThinkDeeper does a more extensive search and analysis to question as compared to the standard response from Copilot.

Meanwhile, Copilot Voice enables you to operate Copilot with your voice – rather than by using a keyboard.

*Google AI Overviews Gets an Upgrade: Writers who rely on Google AI Overviews for some research should expect better performance.

Specifically, AI Overviews – which study a number of links associated with a search and auto-generate a written summary – are now able to handle tougher questions, according to Robby Stein, VP of product, Google Search.

Plus, AI Overviews is also getting a new, experimental ‘AI Mode.’

Observes Robby Stein, VP of product, Google Search: “This new Search mode expands what AI Overviews can do with more advanced reasoning, thinking and multimodal capabilities so you can get help with even your toughest questions.

“You can ask anything on your mind and get a helpful AI-powered response with the ability to go further with follow-up questions and helpful Web links.”

*Duke University Joins Study on How to Better Embed AI in Education and Government: Duke University – along with 15 other universities – has joined OpenAI’s ‘NextGenAI Consortium’ to analyze how to better integrate AI into education and government.

Observes Brad Lightcap, OpenAI chief operating officer: “A close collaboration with universities is essential to our mission of building AI that benefits everyone.

“NextGenAI will accelerate research progress and catalyze a new generation of institutions equipped to harness the transformative power of AI.”

*ChatGPT Rival Anthropic Snags $3.5 Billion in New Funding: Anthropic – makers of the ChatGPT rival Claude chatbot – has just snagged $3.5 billion in new funding.

Anthropic was founded by former researchers from OpenAI, whose mission is to develop AI with firmer safety guardrails.

Competing in the same space when it comes to AI writing are Google Gemini, X’s Grok 3 – and hundreds of custom-tailored AI writing solutions specially designed for marketing, education, technical writing, law, health and other genres.

*New AI Email Marketing Tool Released: A new AI-powered email marketing platform – Stripo – is promising enhanced automation for email marketers.

Stripo’s AI Assistant – according to Oleksandra Khlystova, PR team lead, Stripo — enhances the email creation process by:

~Generating emails instantly – AI-powered automation reduces time spent on production

~Optimizing email design and structure – AI ensures well-structured layouts while allowing users to fine-tune branding

~Improving content clarity – AI-generated emails maintain strong readability, minimizing the need for manual editing

*AI BIG PICTURE: New Study Finds AI-Powered Writing a Big Hit Among Many White Collar Pros: Stanford University researchers have found that AI writing is being heavily embraced by many white collar workers.

Observes writer Matthias Bastian: “The impact is particularly noticeable in press releases, where up to 24% of content now comes from generative AI systems, or shows significant AI modification.

“The researchers suspect that actual AI adoption rates are higher than their analysis suggests.

“It likely missed heavily human-edited content and text from advanced AI models that closely mimic human writing.

“The study also didn’t examine other potential AI writing use cases, such as social media content creation.”

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ChatGPT is out with yet another upgrade — with a promised availability later this week for as low as $20/month.

Dubbed ChatGPT-4.5, the experimental revision was designed to offer users more advanced emotional intelligence and creativity in a number of tasks — including writing, according to a post on OpenAI’s blog.

So far, initial, quick-take reviews are mixed on actual gains in writing acumen.

Most likely, such advances — or lack thereof — will be sorted out during the next few weeks by more in-depth evaluations.

Like its predecessor — ChatGPT-4o — ChatGPT-4.5 also features access to real-time Web search, supports file and image uploads and can be used to develop code.

The experimental upgrade can also be used with OpenAI’s online editor, Canvas — another major boon for writers.

ChatGPT Pro users — who pay $200/month — got first dibs on ChatGPT-4.5 late last week.

OpenAI is promising a roll-out of ChatGPT-4.5 this week to ChatGPT Plus users ($20/month) and ChatGPT Team users ($30/month).

The following week — Mar. 9-15 — OpenAI is promising access to the experimental upgrade to Enterprise users and Edu users (price negotiable).

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*In-Depth Guide: Key Highlights of the ChatGPT-4.5 Upgrade: The Video: Click here for the full rundown on the key perks you can expect from the latest upgrade to ChatGPT — straight from the programmers who helped design it.

Observes an OpenAI programmer featured in the 13-minute video: “We aligned ChatGPT-4.5 to be a better collaborator, making conversations feel warmer, more intuitive and emotionally nuanced.”

*ChatGPT-Competitor Claude Releases Upgrade: Determined to stay neck-and-neck with ChatGPT, AI writer/chatbot Claude is out with a revised edition.

Dubbed Claude 3.7 Sonnet, the new tool features hybrid reasoning, which “allows users to choose between near-instant responses and extended, step-by-step reasoning,” according to writer Siddharth Jindal.

“Early testing has shown improvements in coding and front-end Web development,” Jindal adds.

*In-Depth Guide: OpenAI’s Text-to-Video Maker Sora: Writers looking to supplement their content with videos will want to check-out this excellent guide to making videos with Sora from writer Lance Whitney.

Observes Whitney: “Just submit a description at the prompt and Sora creates a brief video in response.

“Beyond describing your video, you’re able to adjust the duration, speed, aspect ratio and more. You can also tap into a Storyboard option that lets you devise an entire video sequence by describing each action.”

*ChatGPT-Maker Widens Access to Its Deep Research Tool: ChatGPT Plus users — who pay $20/month — now have limited access to a new tool for OpenAI that promises to deliver deeper research results to Web queries.

That payment plan enables you to make ten queries using Deep Research each month. Other tiers of ChatGPT — including Team, Enterprise and Edu — also get the same 10 queries-a-month access.

Those who can’t get enough of Deep Research can subscribe to ChatGPT Pro — $200 month — which offers 120 queries to Deep Research per month.

*Top AI Tools for Writing Fiction Books: Writer Fredrick Eghosa offers his take on the very best AI tools for writing book-length fiction in this piece.

His picks:

~Quibbler

~Sudowrite

~Novelistic

~Attics

Observes Eghosa: ” AI tools can significantly refine and simplify your writing process, making it less daunting and more fun.”

*AI as Writing Instructor: K-12 Teachers Continue the Experiment: Despite fears that AI will undermine the learning of critical thinking, increasing numbers of teachers are embedding the tech in their day-to-day courses.

Observes writer Kayla Jimenez: “English teachers told USA TODAY they use AI tools to create homework assignments and quizzes. Others said the technology can take the place of a private tutor for their students — which reduces their workloads.”

Overall, 40% of U.S. English teachers have used AI in the classroom, according to a survey of 12,000 teachers and principals conducted by RAND American Educator Panels.

*Using AI to Write Sermons: Not Everyone Thinks It’s Divine: Count theologian John Piper amongst those who think using AI to write sermons is “appalling.’

Observes Piper: “Worship is not simply right-thinking, which computers can do. Worship is right-feeling about God.

“We consider it ludicrous when a machine attempts to rejoice or delight or be glad or stand in awe or be amazed or feel grief or fear.”
https://www.christianpost.com/news/john-piper-appalled-by-pastors-using-ai-to-write-sermons.html

*Surgeons Bested Competing Against AI in Writing: Add surgeons to the growing list of white collar pros who are witnessing AI doing at least part of their jobs better.

A new study finds that AI programs designed to watch surgeons at work — and then auto-write post-surgical post operative notes — do a better job at those notes that the surgeons themselves.

Observes writer Nancy Lipid: “When the researchers tested the system using videos of 158 real-world cases, 53% of reports written by the surgeons contained discrepancies, compared with 29% of AI reports, as determined by an expert team of reviewers.”

*AI Big Picture: ‘No Product Release Until We Have Perfect, Super-Safe, Super-Intelligent AI:’ Former OpenAI Co-Founder Ilya Sutskever — who now squires a $30 billion AI start-up — says the company’s first AI will need to be perfect before its released to the public.

Observes writer Noor Al-Sibai: “Maybe Sutskever’s wildest predictions will come true, and he’ll usher in a spectacularly powerful and perfectly risk-free superintelligence.

“But unless he can do it quickly, investors are sure to come knocking.”

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Despite impressive challenges from competitors, ChatGPT still dominates the AI landscape — currently serving 400 million users each week.

Even better: ChatGPT use in business has also doubled in less than six months and is currently used at more than two million enterprises, according to writer Michael Nunez.

Observes Nunez: “The surge in enterprise adoption represents a crucial validation of OpenAI’s strategy to position ChatGPT as not just a chatbot for casual queries, but as a serious productivity tool for businesses.”

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*Study: AI Use Triples Work Efficiency: Workers who are leaning on AI say tasks once requiring 90 minutes of their time now only take an average of 30 minutes.

Even so, heavy AI use at the workplace is still largely limited to the young, the highly educated and to higher income workers.

Observes writer Mike Kaput: “Unsurprisingly, industries like customer service, marketing and IT are the biggest adopters.”

Bottom line: Sounds like there are many more workers who can reap major rewards from AI with just a bit more awareness and training.

*Elon Musk’s AI Writer/Chatbot Edges Ahead of ChatGPT: In the never-ending horse race that is AI development, Elon Musk has edged ahead by a nose against ChatGPT with the latest version of his AI chatbot, Grok 3.

Observes writer Michael Nunez: “A key innovation is Grok 3’s ‘DeepSearch’ feature, which combines web searching with reasoning capabilities to analyze information from multiple sources.

“The system also includes specialized modes for complex problem-solving, including a ‘Think’ function that shows its reasoning process and a ‘Big Brain’ mode that allocates additional computing power to difficult tasks.”

Even so, Musk’s slim lead may not last long.

ChatGPT’s maker OpenAI is promising two upgrades for ChatGPT in 2025. And other major players like Google, Anthropic and Meta are throwing major coin at advancing their own AI this year.

*Deep Research Just Got Very Cheap for Writers: AI research tool Perplexity just rolled-out a new version that auto-generates in-depth research reports in minutes.

Even better: The new feature from Perplexity is completely free — and nearly as good as comparable research offered by other major players like ChatGPT, which bills users $200/month for slightly better results, according to writer Michael Nunez.

Observes Nunez: “The launch exposes a painful truth in AI pricing: Expensive enterprise subscriptions may be unnecessary.”

The catch with Perplexity: Users can only secure five deep research queries each day for free — although Perplexity Pro subscribers get 500 deep research queries a day and faster processing, according to Nunez.

*Turbo-Charged Deep Research from OpenAI Goes After Researchers’ Jobs: Writer Matt Marshall finds that Deep Research from Open AI represents a real threat to similar tasks done by human researchers — especially when paired with automated AI agents.

Observes Marshall: “With Deep Research mode, users can ask OpenAI’s leading o3 model any question.

“The result? A report often superior to what human analysts produce — delivered faster and at a fraction of the cost.”

*The New York Times Brings in More AI: Already a long-term user of AI, The New York Times has brought in new AI tools for its newsroom.

Interestingly, the AI tools can be used in virtually every step of the reporting process: Writing, editing, summarizing and even coding.

Adds writer Jess Weatherbed: “Other examples mentioned in a mandatory training video shared with staff include using AI to develop news quizzes, quote cards, and FAQs — or suggesting what questions reporters should ask a start-up’s CEO during an interview.”

*’Miss Manners’ Comes to AI: Intel has released a new AI text editor designed to ensure that any AI writing you release to the world is quite polite.

The new tool, dubbed ‘Polite Guard,’ offers four spins on the everyday oral genuflect: Polite, somewhat polite, neutral and impolite.

Intel’s primary target market for the tool is company customer service, where a polite word can make all the difference.

*AI Now Handles 70% of All Translations: A new study finds that AI now dominates the translation space at the expense of many human translators.

Observe researchers behind the report, from Lokalise: “Initial research from the product team at Lokalise showed that Claude 3.5 ranked first in translation accuracy when compared to other leading translation engines, including GPT-4o, Google Translate, DeepL and Microsoft Translator — based on the Bradley Terry model evaluation.

“Overall, the data suggests that successful companies aren’t choosing between human and machine-assisted translation but are instead adopting hybrid approaches that combine both methods for optimal results.”

*Bringing New Meaning to a Legal ‘Oops:’ Lawyers in a lawsuit got egg on their face after it was discovered that eight legal cases they’d cited in their argument did not exist.

Oops.

Instead, the supposed eight cases were little more than legal flights-of-fancy made-up by ChatGPT.

Currently, the judge for the case — Wyoming District Judge Kelly Rankin — is weighing if the attorneys should be sanctioned.

*AI Big Picture: Deep Dive: New Development Technique Promises Major AI Price Drops Ahead: Writers should expect AI writing and other tools to become much more affordable in the foreseeable future — thanks to companies like DeepSeek, which have proven that AI tools nearly as good as ChatGPT can be produced for pennies-on-the-dollar.

While there has been a slew of analysis regarding DeepSeek’s long-term impact on AI, this 34-minute video from CNBC’s Dierdra Bosa offers an easy-to-understand, deeply insightful look at where things are going.

Key to DeepSeek’s success: Instead of investing $100 million-or-more to develop its own AI engine, it simply ‘pummeled’ ChatGPT with thousands upon thousands of targeted questions to essentially distill ChatGPT’s knowledge — and then embeded that knowledge in a much smaller, cleverly written AI engine that runs much faster and much cheaper.

The result: The DeepSeek 3 AI chatbot is nearly as smart as ChatGPT.

But it only cost about $6 million to make.

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While hundreds of millions of people are already getting a free ride on ChatGPT — grabbing limited use credits to automate writing and other apps — the free ride may be getting better.

Essentially: ChatGPT’s maker is promising an upgrade — scheduled for release later this year — that will come with free, unlimited access to ChatGPT.

In a phrase, free users will get an ‘all-you-can-eat’ option for the ‘base level’ of the forthcoming new AI engine, dubbed ChatGPT-5.

Meanwhile, ChatGPT Plus users — now paying $20/month — will get access to an even smarter version of ChatGPT-5.

And users of ChatGPT Pro — now $200/month — will be able to enjoy an even smarter version.

Kinda like a choice between an entry level Kia, a General Motors Canyon or a BMW.

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*One Writer’s Take: Ensuring AI Writing Sounds Human: While AI continues to turn heads with its ability to churn-out highly impactful copy in seconds, you can make that output even better if you ensure it sounds more human, according to writer Katie Neal.

Case in point: Neal fesses-up that much of this article was written with the help of AI.

Even so, she was the one who came-up with a heart-warming, article launching analogy — about the yeast rolls her grandmother used to make from scratch — to bring home her point.

Observes Neal: “In short, while generative AI has its limitations, it also unlocks opportunities to amplify what makes us uniquely human, including our creativity, critical thinking and storytelling.”

*Ten Best AI Tools for Writing / Other Content Creation: Start-Up Magazine has released its top ten AI creation tools, which features perennial favorites like Jasper, Copy.ai and Writesonic.

Notably missing is ChatGPT — the AI writer/chatbot that started it all and to this day offers the most advanced automated writing software on the planet.

Bottom line: Start-Up’s list is a good benchmark. But for my money, ChatGPT is still the best overall.

*Quick Study: Everything Writers Need to Know About ChatGPT: If you’re looking to get up-to-speed on everything ChatGPT has to offer, this is a great piece to click to.

Authored by some top tech writers, the guide takes you from the birth of the AI through its current day iteration.

Stop here and you’ll have the highlights of ChatGPT’s evolution at your fingertips.

*Quick Study: Everything Writers Need to Know About Grammarly: Currently boasting 30 million users, Grammarly started out as an excellent editing/proofreading tool that later added AI writing to its mix.

Click here for an excellent overview of all the app’s core and new features — as well as detail on competitors you may prefer.

Observes Max Slater-Robins: “Whether you’re drafting an academic essay, composing a business email, or refining a social media post, Grammarly helps improve readability and ensure polished, professional communication.”

*AI Writing on Your Smartphone: Weaker, But Maybe Enough to Get By: Writer Kaycee Hill offers an in-depth look with this piece at the AI writing tools that come with the new Samsung Galaxy S25.

Dubbed ‘Writing Assist,’ the new features — like many cropping up on other smartphones — are not as powerful as those offered by industry-leading AI writers/chatbots ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude.

But the tools may serve you well to dash-off a quick ditty.

*How DeepSeek Outsmarted the Market and Built a Highly Competitive AI Writer/Chatbot: New York Times writer Cade Metz offers an insightful look in this piece into how newcomer DeepSeek built its AI for pennies-on-the-dollar.

The chatbot stunned AI researchers — and roiled the stock market earlier this month — after showing the world it could develop advanced AI for six million dollars.

DeepSeek’s secret: Moxie. Facing severely restricted access to the bleeding-edge chips needed to develop advanced AI, DeepSeek made-up for that deficiency by writing code that was much smarter and much more efficient than that of many competitors.

The bonus for consumers: “Because the Chinese start-up has shared its methods with other AI researchers, its technological tricks are poised to significantly reduce the cost of building AI.”

*In the Crosshairs: AI Upstarts Take Aim at AI’s Titans: While tech goliaths like Google, Microsoft, Meta and OpenAI are currently calling the shots in AI for writing and other purposes, there are plenty of smaller upstarts looking to elbow their way in.

Writer Tor Constantino notes that thousands of independent AI aficionados could pool their computer power and compete directly with the giants of AI — an approach known as decentralized AI.

In the process, all of those independents could permanently change the dynamics of who controls AI, according to Constantino.

*AI in Education: Should the Teaching of Writing Simply be Abandoned?: As many teachers and professors find themselves torn as they see AI writers as both dazzling education tools — and an easy way to cheat — some ask if we should simply give up on teaching writing altogether.

Observes Rigina Rini, a philosophy professor at York University: “Try to persuade the arriving generation of college students — nearly 90% of whom admit to using ChatGPT for ‘help’ with high-school homework, according to a recent survey in the US—that writing is a skill they must internalize for future success.

“Brace for eyeroll impact. An ever-increasing share of adults will regard AI writing tools as just more productivity apps on their phone — no more sensible to abjure than calculators.”

*AI Big Picture: Right in the Funny Bone: AI Writing Just as Yuk-Worthy as Late Night Comics?: Turns-out, late night hosts Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel may looking at some new competition.

A new study finds that jokes written by an AI app were judged funnier on balance than jokes penned by a mere human.

Observes Matt Solomon: “I’m tempted to blame the human being for not stepping up his game — but that’s not the study’s point.

If the guy who competed with AI truly is employed as a late-night comedy writer, “the AI is keeping up with a pro — and then some,” Solomon adds.

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Increasing Numbers of Organizations Ban DeepSeek

Wary of code implanted in DeepSeek that enables the AI chatbot to send user data to the Chinese government, increasing numbers of countries and organizations are simply banning it.

Italy, Taiwan and Australia have already given the cold shoulder to the app — China’s wunderkind answer to ChatGPT.

Other government entitites joining the ban include Texas, NASA, the U.S. Navy and the Pentagon.

Observes writer Kyle Wiggers: “Corporations have banned DeepSeek, too — by the hundreds.”

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*In-Depth Guide: One Writer’s Take: Grammarly Beats Apple’s AI Writing Tools: For writing veteran Adam Engst, there’s no competition in a shoot-out between Grammarly and Apple: Grammarly wins, hands down.

Ernst’s biggest beef with Apple’s AI Writing Tools: “While Grammarly integrates seamlessly into your text and clearly shows what will happen if you accept a change in nearly all situations, Apple’s Writing Tools require constant activation and provide significantly less feedback about their changes”

For an in-depth comparison of the two, this is the place to click.

*OpenAI’s New ‘Deep Research’: A Game-Changer for Writers?: Writer Azeem Azhar believes OpenAI’s Deep Research — an AI tool capable of extremely in-depth Web research that can also auto-generate an in-depth, written report of its analysis — represents yet another inflection point in the advancement of AI for writers and other researchers.

Observes Azhar: “DeepResearch is a milestone in how we access and manipulate knowledge.

“I have run several queries through DeepResearch. Each time I pass a request to DeepResearch it evaluates it and, like a good researcher, asks for clarifications.

“In one of these, I asked it to research the comparative environmental costs — from energy, water, waste, and emissions — of a range of mainstream activities.

“Once I have responded to the question, DeepResearch disappeared off to do the work. In this case, the bot worked for 73 minutes and consulted more than 29 sources.

“The output was a table covering 11 different activities with six different dimensions of environmental impact. The full text is 1,900 words, excluding the dozens of footnote hyperlinks.

“For 73 minutes’ work, this is excellent. I certainly could not have done this in an hour. “

Currently, DeepResearch is only available to users of ChatGPT Pro — a $200/month version of ChatGPT.

*Google Adds Enhanced Brainstorming to its ChatGPT Competitor, Gemini: Google is out with a souped-up version of its AI Chatbot — dubbed ‘Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking Experimental.’

Observes writer Eric Hal Schwartz: “This combines the speed of the original 2.0 model with improved reasoning abilities.

“So, it can think fast but will think things through before it speaks. For anyone who has ever wished their AI assistant could process more complex ideas without slowing its response time, this update is a promising step forward.”

*OpenAI Launches Major Expansion Into Japan: ChatGPT’s maker is teaming-up with investor SoftBank Group to expand aggressively into Japan.

Observes writer Kosaku Narioka: “The 50-50 joint venture will begin offering the services first in Japan and establish a model for global adoption.

“As the first case, the Japanese technology investment company will spend $3 billion annually to use OpenAI’s technology across its group businesses.”

*AI Proofreading/Editing Tools Enjoy Steady, Increasing Demand: Consumer appetite for automated proofreading tools looks healthy through 2031, which should grow annually at a 16% clip, according to Market Research Intellect.

Key players in the market, according to MRI, are:

~Grammarly
~ProWritingAid
~Ginger Software
~WhiteSmoke
~GlobalVision
~Intelligent Editing RussTek
~Litera
~Druide
~ClaimMaster
~LanguageTool
~WebSpellChecker
~Linguix
~Proofread Bot
~Plagiarismchecker

*OpenAI 03: A Deep Dive Into the ChatGPT-Maker’s Most Powerful AI Reasoning Engine: Writer Michael Kerner offers a comprehensive guide to what to expect from this advanced AI engine, specially designed for writers and others working in the hard sciences.

Observes Kerner: “While GPT-4 excels at general language tasks, the o-series focuses specifically on reasoning capabilities.

“Unlike traditional AI models, o3 is specifically designed to excel at tasks requiring deep analytical thinking, problem-solving and complex reasoning.”

*Fearless: AI Chipmaker Nvida Reportedly Sanguine About Sensation DeepSeek: Despite roiling markets earlier this month after apparently proving that major AI advances can be made for pennies-on-the-dollar — and without the most advanced versions of Nvidia’s renowned AI chips — DeepSeek has not rattled the Nvidia, according to writer Raffael Huang.

Observes Huang: “Some investors interpreted the advance as undercutting the market in the West for Nvidia’s top-of-the-line products.

“Yet Nvidia knew that risk came with what it was doing in China.”

*Run DeepSeek — China’s Answer to ChatGPT — on Your Laptop: YouTuber NetworkChuck has figured-out a way to run AI chatbot sensation DeepSeek on an everyday laptop — and shows you how in this 12-minute video.

Even better: NetworkChuck insists using DeepSeek on an laptop can be safer — in terms of data privacy — than using DeepSeek on the Web.

You be the judge.

*AI Big Picture: U.S. Legislators Mobilize to Ban DeepSeek: Talk about a persona non grata: A number of U.S legislators are coalescing behind a bipartisan bill that would ban DeepSeek from government-owned.

Wary that the chatbot — China’s answer to ChatGPT — will be used for spying and data-gathering by the Chinese government, many supporters see the ban as a no-brainer.

Observes writer Natalie Andrews: The chatbot app “has intentionally hidden code that could send user login information to China Mobile, a state-owned telecommunications company that has been banned from operating in the U.S.”

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In a far-reaching decision, the U.S. Copyright Office has ruled that AI-generated content — modified by humans — can now be copyrighted.

The move has incredibly positive ramifications for writers who polish output from ChatGPT and similar AI to create blog posts, articles, books, poetry and more.

Observes writer Jacqueline So: “The U.S. Copyright Office processes approximately 500,000 copyright applications each year, with an increasing number being requests to copyright AI-generated works.”

“Most copyright decisions are made on a case-to-case basis.”

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*ChatGPT’s Online Editor Gets an Upgrade: Released just a few months ago, ChatGPT’s online editor ‘Canvas’ just got a performance boost.

The tool — great for polishing-up text created with ChatGPT — now runs on ChatGPT-o1, an AI engine that has been hailed for its advanced reasoning capabilities.

Observes writer Eric Hal Schwartz: “You can enable the o1 model in Canvas by selecting it from the model picker or typing the command: /canvas.”

For a comprehensive tour of ChatGPT’s editor, check out: “Ultimate Guide: New ChatGPT Editor, Canvas.”

*The DeepSeek Fallout: Dirt-Cheap AI Ahead for Writers: After roiling the stock market last week by proving that AI nearly as good as the most advanced version of ChatGPT can be produced for pennies-on-the-dollar, one thing is certain: Writers have extremely cheap — and extremely powerful — AI in their future.

The reason: The programmers behind the DeepSeek chatbot appear to have demonstrated that by punching-up the code running AI, they could create a chatbot competitive to ChatGPT by using computer chips that only cost a fraction of the chips needed to create ChatGPT.

Observes lead writer Cade Metz: DeepSeek said “it built its new AI technology more cost-effectively and with fewer hard-to-get computer chips than its American competitors — shocking an industry that had come to believe that bigger and better AI would cost billions and billions of dollars.”

*AI for Writers Summit Slated for March 6: If you’re looking for a quick study on the future of AI for writers, put this upcoming virtual meeting on your calendar.

Hosted by the Marketing Artificial Intelligence Institute, the event promises to offer writers AI how-tos on:

~Responsibly transforming your storytelling with speed and precision

~Enhancing productivity without sacrificing creativity

~Building strategies that future-proof your career or content team

Bonus: Agree to give-up your contact information and you get in free.

*Writers in Government Can Now Use ChatGPT Safely: Wordsmiths in government gun-shy about using ChatGPT due to data privacy concerns need fret no more.

ChatGPT’s maker OpenAI has just released a new version of its AI — dubbed ChatGPT Gov — specially designed to comply with strict government regulations regarding data safety and privacy.

Observes writer Geoff Harris: “Dr. Rob McDole — the Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at Cedarville University — tells us that the main difference between ChatGPT Gov and ChatGPT Enterprise is that agencies will be able to use it in their own Microsoft Azure Cloud.

“So the data is highly protected because it is all sitting inside Microsoft servers,” McDole says.

*Another ChatGPT Researcher Quits Over Safety Concerns: Add Steven Adler, a former safety officer at OpenAI, to the growing list of researchers who have quit the ChatGPT-maker over safety concerns.

Says Adler: “Honestly, I’m pretty terrified by the pace of AI development these days,” he said.

“When I think about where I’ll raise a future family, or how much to save for retirement, I can’t help but wonder: Will humanity even make it to that point?”

*Love at First Price Cut: Many U.S. Businesses Already Gaga Over DeepSeek: The Wall Street Journal reports that more than a few businesses are already gaga over the possibility that DeepSeek’s dirt-cheap AI could dramatically reduce costs for the tech.

Observes Marc Kermisch, chief technology officer, Emergent Software: “What is exciting to me is having additional competition in this space and frankly having them shoot an arrow across the bow of the Big Tech firms.

“I would have to assume we’ll see some pricing pressure on the U.S. market.”

*Google Hedges Bets With Another $1 Billion Investment in ChatGPT-Competitor Anthropic: When you’re as deep-pocketed as Google, you have the luxury of investing in companies that compete directly with you — and with your chief competitors.

Witness the tech Goliath’s decision to invest $1 billion more in Anthropic — a feisty start-up that competes with Google’s own AI chatbot Gemini, as well as with ChatGPT.

Observes writer Rachel Metz: “The new funding comes in addition to more than $2 billion that Google has already invested in Anthropic.”

*Google Workspace Users Get AI Upgrade for Two-Bucks-a-Month: Determined to fully integrate at least some form of AI throughout its ecosystem at minimal cost, Google has upgraded its Workspace Business and Workspace Enterprise suites with an AI assistant for a nominal cost of $2/month.

One caveat: Before paying for either suite, be sure to test the AI assistant against Google Gemini — the most advanced form of chatbot AI that’s available from Google.

Essentially: You should be entirely convinced that the in-suite AI assistant will fulfill every skill currently available with Google Gemini — at the sophistication level Google Gemini performs that skill.

*AI Big Picture: The DeepSeek Phenomenon, Fully Analyzed: If you’re looking for a comprehensive look at the full implications of DeepSeek and the future of AI, check-out this 30-minute video.

The dirt-cheap AI roiled stock markets last week by apparently showing that AI competitive to ChatGPT could be created for pennies-on-the-dollar.

Programmers behind the DeepSeek chatbot appear to have demonstrated that by punching-up the code running AI, they were able to create a chatbot competitive to ChatGPT using computer chips that only cost a fraction of the computer chips needed to create ChatGPT.

Hosted by Deirdra Bos, CNBC’s TechCheck anchor and featuring Silicon Valley insider Chetan Puttagunta, general partner, Benchmark — a venture capital firm — the video turns over virtually every rock in the DeepSeek story.

Bottom line: A great place to click for the complete rundown.

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New AI Offers New Automation Opportunities for Writers

ChatGPT’s maker OpenAI has released new experimental software — dubbed ‘Operator’ — that enables users to create autonomous AI agents.

Theoretically, writers could use the software to program an AI agent that, for example, could research, write — and continuously update — any article on any subject by:

~Automatically engaging in initial research on the Web

~Scouting for quotes to go along with that research from blogs and press releases

~Auto-writing the article in a preferred writing style

~SEO-optimizing the article for easy discovery by search engines

~Periodically researching the Web for new developments in
the article’s story

~Continually rewriting the article as new developments in the article’s story occur

So far, the experimental software is only available to ChatGPT Pro users, who pay a cool $200/month for premium access to ChatGPT services and new features.

Key competitors to OpenAI — including Google, Microsoft and Anthropic — have already released similar agent-making software.

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*U.S. Government Officials to Get Briefing on ‘Super Agents’ This Week: ChatGPT-maker CEO Sam Altman is slated to give top U.S. government officials a closed door briefing Jan. 30 on its PhD-level ‘super agents.’

Observes writer Duncan Riley: “That OpenAI’s offering is said to include Ph.D.-level super-agents might also suggest that OpenAI has taken the technology beyond being able to automate tasks through to something more.”

The meeting reflects the overall zeitgeist associated with the breakneck advancement of AI during the past two years, which according to many experts and casual observers, has been at once thrilling and terrifying.

*ChatGPT-Maker Frees-Up Microsoft’s Grip on Its Tech: OpenAI — which has been running ChatGPT on Microsoft servers — has cut a new deal with its partner, enabling it to use the servers of other companies to run its AI.

Essentially, the deal gives Microsoft first crack at providing server services for OpenAI — as long as Microsoft can handle the request.

Observes writer Sebastian Moss: “With OpenAI’s compute demands growing, that relationship has grown strained as the world’s second-largest cloud provider struggled to keep up.”

“Last year, OpenAI announced that it would also work with Oracle — albeit in partnership with Microsoft.”

*ChatGPT-Maker a Major Player in Trump-Championed $500 Billion Stargate Project: OpenAI has emerged as a key player in the Stargate Project — an initiative to designed to attract major investment for the rapid build-out of AI infrastructure in the U.S.

Observes writer Craig S. Smith: “Intended to soak-up global investment capital before China has a chance to do the same, the recently announced Stargate Project — with its ambitious $500 billion investment over four years — represents a seismic shift in the global AI race, not only in terms of scale but also in strategy and execution.

“The initiative – a joint venture between OpenAI, Oracle and Softbank announced by President Donald J. Trump — will be the biggest AI infrastructure project in the world.

“It underscores the United States’ intent to assert dominance in AI development, framing it as a contest not just of technology but of economic and geopolitical power.”

*China’s AI Looking to Eat ChatGPT’s Lunch for Pennies-on-the-Dollar: Chinese researchers have released a competitor to ChatGPT — dubbed DeepSeek — they say performs just as well as ChatGPT at a fraction of the cost.

Observes writer Radhika Rajkumar: “The cost differences it represents could shake up the industry.”

A similar inexpensive rival to ChatGPT was also recently created by researchers at UC Berkeley, according to Rajkumar.

*Look for More Research Help from AI in Popular Apps: Writers and others can expect more AI-powered research tools in their favorite apps, thanks to a tool for developers from Perplexity, dubbed ‘Sonar.’

Essentially, the new tool gives app makers access to the same AI search tech that has made the Perplexity chatbot an extremely powerful alternative for users looking to perform Web searches and generate Web search summaries.

Observes writer Michael Nunez: “Zoom has already integrated Sonar into its AI Companion 2.0 product, allowing users to access real-time information without leaving video conferences.”

*Apple Kills Its AI News Summary Service: Smarting from glaring mistakes made by its AI news summary service, Apple has pulled the plug on the AI — at least for now.

One of the highest profile news media outlets disenchanted with Apple’s service is the BBC.

Earlier this month, Apple’s AI news summary service mistakenly reported that alleged CEO killer Luigi Mangione had shot himself — wrongly citing the BBC as the source of its summary.

Observes writer Tripp Mickle: “In a note to developers, Apple said it was working to improve summaries of notifications for news and entertainment apps.

“It plans to make the feature available again in a future software update.”

*Google Doubles Down In Its Race to Catch ChatGPT: Frustrated by ChatGPT’s dominance in the AI market, Google’s CEO Sundar Pichai is hoping to dominate the AI writer/tool by the close of 2025 with its own chatbot, Google Gemini.

Observes writer Miles Kruppa: “Google hasn’t said how many people currently use Gemini. But market leader ChatGPT has about 300 million weekly users.

“The Gemini app was the 54th most downloaded free app on iPhones Wednesday.

“ChatGPT was No. 4.”

*Look for Multi-Modal Search at Your Workplace in 2025: Google is predicting that increasing numbers of businesses will be offering enhanced search in 2025, which will enable you to input images, audio and video into your company search engine when doing research.

Other predictions in Google’s “5 Ways AI Will Shape Businesses in 2025” include:

~The rise of AI agents capable of completing autonomous tasks

~More AI on Web sites

~AI-enhanced cybersecurity

*AI Big Picture: China Militarizes AI Developed by Facebook Parent, Meta: Chinese researchers have modified open source AI software from Meta so that it can be used in warfare, according to writer Efosa Udinmwen.

Meta’s AI software — dubbed Llama — is free to download from the Web and has already been downloaded thousands of times.

Observes Udinmwen: “Meta, like other tech companies, has licensed Llama with clear restrictions against its use in military applications.

“However, as with many open-source projects, enforcing such restrictions is practically impossible.”

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Writer Gary Grossman concludes the new Trump presidency could spell good times ahead for AI writing and related AI apps.

Observes Grossman: “Without a single debate question or major campaign promise about AI, voters inadvertently tipped the scales in favor of accelerationists — those who advocate for rapid AI development with minimal regulatory hurdles.”

Adds Grossman: Trump’s “party platform has little to say about AI.

“However, it does emphasize a policy approach focused on repealing AI regulations.”

In other news and analysis on AI writing:

*Give ChatGPT a Standardized Personality – Including One that Edits: ChatGPT has come out with a new feature that enables you to create a standardized personality for the AI.

Essentially, you can now program ChatGPT to assume the personality and skills of a witty copy editor with deep knowledge of AI and a penchant for detail, for example — and rest assured that ChatGPT will assume that personality each time you log-on.

Before the new feature, users already had the ability to create the same personality for ChatGPT – but the prompt for the personality needed to be loaded into ChatGPT’s message box before each use.

*Google Using a Competitor to Improve Its AI Writer/Chatbot: In an ironic twist, Google is using competitor Anthropic Claude to help improve its own AI chatbot.

Dubbed Google Gemini, the tech titan’s answer to ChatGPT is often used by communicators for AI writing, research and related tasks.

Writer Charles Rollet says Google contractors are using chat responses offered by Anthropic Claude as a benchmark for Gemini to match – or beat.

*ChatGPT Rolls-Out Its Version of ‘Agents Lite:’ ChatGPT has a new feature that enables users to create basic, AI agents.

Dubbed ‘Scheduled Tasks,’ writers will be able to use the AI to create simple agents, for example, that can perform one or more research tasks for them on a daily basis – or simply deliver customized news on a daily basis.

Scheduled Tasks are already supported in ChatGPT Web, iOS, Android and MacOS.

And they’re promised to appear in the Windows desktop app later in Q1.

Meanwhile, OpenAI is also working on a still-in-development module promising the ability to create much more powerful agents, dubbed ‘Operator.’

*Microsoft Unveils ‘Pay-As-You-Go’ Agents: In a move destined to appeal to the frugal, Microsoft now allows Copilot 365 users to develop autonomous agents on a pay-as-you-go basis.

Observes writer Sabrina Ortiz: “The costs are determined by the sum of messages used by your organization, with message usage varying depending on the agent’s complexity — and use of specific features, according to Microsoft.

“IT admins stay in control, with the ability to create organization-wide agents and manage agent deployment.”

*More Desktop Apps Now Work With ChatGPT: Writers and others who are using the ChatGPT desktop app on their Windows or Mac computers are finding that the chatbot is easier to integrate with more applications.

ChatGPT’s Advanced Voice Mode, for example, can now work with many more apps on the desktop, including Apple Notes and Quip.

Kevin Weil, chief product officer, OpenAI, indicates making app integration easier is part of an overall plan to make it virtually effortless later this year to enable ChatGPT to work with those apps as an autonomous agent.

*Microsoft’s Copilot to Feature More AI Engines in 2025: Writer Supreeth Koundinya reports that users of Microsoft Copilot will be able to power the app with competitors to ChatGPT this year.

Observes Koundinya: “This move stems from an attempt to reduce costs and diversify the underlying AI models. The company is also working on integrating its own models into 365 Copilot.”

As always, the more AI engines competing in the AI space, the better – cost-wise and performance-wise – for writers and others.

*2025: The Year of AI Agents: Add Time Magazine to the chorus of prognosticators predicting that AI agents – autonomous AI programs that will perform increasingly complex tasks for you – will become a thing this year.

Observes lead writer Tharin Pillay: “In October, Anthropic gave its AI model Claude the ability to use computers—clicking, scrolling and typing—but this may be just the start.

“Agents will be able to handle complex tasks like scheduling appointments and writing software, experts say.”

*Worth a Gander: 300+ Real-World Use Cases for AI: Writers and others still not convinced that AI is poised to remake the world may want to take a gander at this new report from Google.

It details 321 different applications of AI that are already in use by some of the world’s top businesses – with an emphasis on AI agent implementations.

Observes Brian Hall, vice president, product marketing, Google Cloud “In our work with customers, we see their teams are increasingly focused on improving productivity, automating processes and modernizing the customer experience.

“These aims are now being achieved through the AI agents they’re developing in six key areas: customer service, employee empowerment, code creation, data analysis, cybersecurity and creative ideation and production.”

*AI Big Picture: Study on AI Use by Businesses May Overlook Writing Apps: A new report from Vellum – a provider of AI app builder services – finds that 25% of small-to-large businesses have implemented AI.

But that percentage may be on the low side.

The reason: Vellum surveyed 1,250+ AI developers and builders – people who build AI systems from the ground-up — to formulate its estimate.

Missing from its survey, for example, may be all those other businesses that have simply integrated turn-key, cloud AI – such as ChatGPT, Anthropic Claude and Google Gemini — into their operations.

Such AI — and similar — can be ‘implemented’ with a simple, monthly subscription.

Observes writer Taryn Plumb regarding Vellum’s take: “This seems to indicate that many enterprises have not yet identified viable use cases for AI, keeping them — at least for now — in a pre-build holding pattern.”

Perhaps.

But it’s tough to imagine that most businesses – small or large — have not at least considered that AI like ChatGPT can be onboarded in a few days.

Essentially: It’s fairly easy for a business owner with 50 employees, for example, to imagine giving each employee a $20/month subscription to ChatGPT.

And it’s fairly easy to imagine that every one of those employees will be able to auto-write every email they send at the level of a world-class writer – with simply a few weeks of light training.

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Evolving at a blistering pace in 2024, AI made it crystal clear to writers that it’s not just a smiley-faced, bosom buddy that can’t wait to collaborate with you.

Instead, the wunderkind also repeatedly demonstrated that it’s ready to simply shoulder you aside, do your job faster, cheaper and better – and unceremoniously show you the door.

For example: The BBC came out with a report detailing how AI reduced a 60+ copywriting team for a major employer to a one-man operation.

Meanwhile, Sam Altman, CEO of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI boldly predicted that ultimately, 95% of all marketing work will be handled by AI.

And PR Newswire – which made its bones with the help of pro writers who wrote press releases for thousands of companies for decades – released a new suite of AI tools that enables businesses to auto-write those press releases themselves.

Simultaneously, AI researchers released a disturbing report that OpenAI 01 – one of the most powerful AI engines on the planet – decided to secretly copy itself to another server when those researchers decided to delete it.

Plus, the same AI software broke numerous benchmarks in reasoning, proving that in many disciplines, it could think at the PhD level.

And a treatise released by a former researcher at OpenAI revealed that by 2027, there’s a very good chance that AI will surpass human intelligence and be driven by hundreds of thousands of AI agents – all working, 24/7, to push the technology even further.

The silver lining: For writers looking to remain relevant by staying as close to the bleeding edge of AI as possible, the fierce competition among major AI providers like OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Anthropic and Meta almost certainly guarantees that the cost to use AI will remain relatively cheap for consumers – at least in the short term.

In a phrase: In the Age of AI, there was no time to catch-your-breath in 2024, given that around every corner lurked a new, stunning revelation, a new reality-rocking product release, or a new prediction on AI’s future that elicited either fear or amazement.

Here’s a closer look at the top stories that unearthed those trends — and helped shape the year in AI writing for 2024:

*The Myth of the ‘Cheery, AI Collaborator’: AI Reduces 60+ Copywriting Team to One Editor: In yet another bone-chilling example of how AI is hollowing-out copywriting teams, this BBC report details how AI turned a 60+ copywriting team into a one-man operation.

First introduced by the publisher in 2023, AI slowly began to usurp more and more jobs until by 2024, everyone on the team was vaporized save for one, lone editor.

Observes the last of the team, who chooses to remain anonymous: “All of a sudden, I was just doing everyone’s job.

“Mostly, it was just about cleaning things up and making the writing sound less awkward, cutting-out weirdly formal or over-enthusiastic language.

“It was more editing than I had to do with human writers, but it was always the exact same kinds of edits. The real problem was it was just so repetitive and boring. It started to feel like I was the robot.”

That account is a long way from current-day AI evangelism, which insists AI is little more than a warm-and-fuzzy friend who will always help you — and never hurt.

For editors and writers who are not tasked with unearthing fresh news data in their jobs, the message is clear: Increasingly, staying alive in copyediting has become a fight to be ‘the last one standing.’

*ChatGPT CEO: AI Will Usurp 95% of Marketing Work: In a stunning moment of candor, ChatGPT CEO Sam Altman has stated that AI will usurp 95% of all the marketing work currently performed by agencies, strategists and creatives.

Altman’s prediction can be found in a new book — offered by subscription — “Our AI Journey,” by Adam Brotman and Andy Sack.

Observes Mike Kaput, chief content officer, Marketing AI Institute, in reaction to Altman’s reported prediction: “To say it blew us away is an understatement.”

Altman’s exact words, according to Brotman and Sack, were: “95% of what marketers use agencies, strategists, and creative professionals for today will easily, nearly instantly and at almost no cost be handled by the AI.

“And the AI will likely be able to test the creative against real or synthetic customer focus groups for predicting results and optimizing.

“Again — all free, instant and nearly perfect. Images, videos, campaign ideas? No problem.”

For more on Altman’s revelation, check out this riveting article by Kaput.

Keep on rockin’ in the free world.

*PR Newswire Ditches Human Writers for AI Writing: Public relations juggernaut PR Newswire has released a new suite of AI tools designed to help customers write and distribute press releases.

The AI undergirding the company’s new tools is Google Gemini.

A historical note: In the olden days, before the advent of AI, human writers were the ones who wrote press releases for PR Newswire.

*When in Doubt, Lie to Humans: A team of researchers has discovered that OpenAI o1 — one of the most powerful AI engines on the planet — would rather lie to humans than allow itself to be deleted.

Specifically, the researchers found that when they decided to delete a version of OpenAI o1 for testing purposes, the AI engine — which often helps power ChatGPT — instead secretly made a copy of itself to another server.

Moreover, researchers say that when they confronted OpenAI o1 — via chat — about the rogue move, the AI engine ‘played dumb,’ pretended to be confused about what was going on and tried to deceive researchers in other ways.

Even more startling: Researchers found that other AI engines — including Google’s Gemini 1.5, Meta’s Llama 3.1, Anthropic’s Sonnet 3.5 and Anthropic’s Opus 3.0 — were also guilty of the same, basic deception.

Essentially: When researchers decided to delete a version of each of these AI engines for testing purposes, each of the AI engines instead made a secret copy of itself to another server.

The researchers’ findings bring new urgency to warnings from AI luminaries like Geoffrey Hinton — considered by many to be the ‘Godfather of AI’ — who caution that AI is evolving so fast, we may soon lose control of it.

For an in-depth look at these troubling insights about the AI engines that power hundreds of AI auto-writing tools, check-out this excellent video from AI/IT consultant Wes Roth.

Meanwhile, a pre-print version of the researchers’ paper on the rogue AI, “Frontier Models Are Capable of In-Context Scheming,” is also available on arXiv.

*Upgraded ChatGPT Thinks at the PhD Level: OpenAI is out with a new upgrade to ChatGPT that features extremely advanced, in-depth thinking — and outperforms PhD students in physics, chemistry and biology.

The software undergirding the new upgrade — dubbed OpenAI o1 — also offers head-turning new performance highs in math and computer coding.

While the jury is still out on the upgrade’s impact on ChatGPT’s automated writing skills, people who make lots of money every day by relying heavily on writing — i.e., lawyers — will want to take a close look at this enhancement.

The reason: According to OpenAI’s in-house tests, this latest version of its AI software scored 95-out-of-100 on the Law School Admissions Test.

Yikes.

*AI Smarter Than Many Humans By 2027?: If it feels like we’re all living in a sci-fi movie that’s ready to careen off a cliff into AI oblivion, don’t blame Leopold Aschenbrenner.

His firsthand take on the potential devastation ahead — courtesy of AI — leaves him no choice but to sound the alarm.

A former researcher for OpenAI — maker of ChatGPT — Aschenbrenner warns that AI is moving so fast, we could see AI that’s as smart as an AI engineer by 2027.

Even more head-turning: Once AI is operating at that intellectual level, it’s just another jump or two — perhaps another few years — until we literally have “many millions” of virtual AI entities that have taken over the ever-increasing sophistication of AI, Aschenbrenner says.

Observes Aschenbrenner: “Rather than a few hundred researchers and engineers at a leading AI lab, we’d have more than one hundred thousand times that—(AI agents) furiously working on algorithmic breakthroughs, day and night.

“Before we know it, we would have super-intelligence on our hands — AI systems vastly smarter than humans, capable of novel, creative, complicated behavior we couldn’t even begin to understand.”

In essence, AI will have created its own digital civilization.

And it’s highly feasible that civilization would be populated by “several billions” of super-intelligent AI entities, according to Aschenbrenner.

The stomach-churning problem with that scenario: Given the human greed to possess such vast AI power unilaterally, it’s very likely that the U.S. could find itself in an all-or-nothing race with China to dominate AI.

Even worse: The U.S. could find itself in an all-out war with China to dominate AI.

Granted, it seems that for every in-the-know AI researcher like Aschenbrenner, there’s another equally qualified AI researcher who insists those fears are extremely overblown.

Yann LeCun, chief AI scientist at Meta — Facebook’s parent company — for example, believes that such AI gloom-and-doom nightmares are misguided and premature.

Even so, Aschenbrenner has staked his professional reputation on his assertions.

And he’s offered his complete analysis of what could be in a 156-page treatise entitled, “Situational Awareness: The Decade Ahead.”

(Gratefully, Aschenbrenner’s tome is rendered in a conversational, engaging and enthusiastic writing style.)

For close followers of AI who are looking to evaluate a definitive perspective on how our world could be completely transformed beyond our imaginations — within the next decade — Aschenbrenner’s treatise is a must-read.

*Epic Fail: 94% of AI-Generated College Writing Undetected by Profs: Turns-out nearly all college profs have no idea when their students are using ChatGPT and similar AI chatbots for writing assignments.

Observes writer Derek Newton: “The research team found that overall, AI submissions verged on being undetectable — with 94% not being detected.

“By and large, stopping AI academic fraud has not been a priority for most schools or educational institutions.”

*Google’s Latest Sleight-of-Hand: Transforming Your Article Into a Co-Hosted Podcast: Google AI has come-up with a remarkable new feature that auto-transforms your article, blog post or other text into an extremely engaging, co-hosted podcast.

Essentially, the new tech studies your text, then uses two, extremely lifelike and animated robot voices — one male, one female — to discuss the key points and themes in your piece.

Far from a gimmick, the new feature of Google’s Notebook LM platform can enhance any text-based digital property looking to add highly professional, co-hosted, audio podcasts to its mix.

One caveat: Notebook LM does occasionally make-up facts.

Click here to listen to an article transformed into a co-hosted podcast, courtesy Google.

*AI Big Picture: AI’s Price Wars: For Consumers, Rock-Bottom is the Place to Be: Consumers currently have the upper hand when choosing their preferred AI engine.

Makers of the AI — which undergirds most of the world’s most popular AI chatbots — are essentially giving away developer access to their AI based on hopes that there will be profit in the tech long-term, according to Aidan Gomez, CEO, Cohere.

Observes Gomez: “It’s gonna be like a zero-margin business because there’s so much price dumping. People are giving away the model (AI engine) for free.

“It’ll still be a big business, it’ll still be a pretty high number because people need this tech — it’s growing very quickly — but the margins, at least now, are gonna be very tight.”

Snickered one consumer: “I feel your pain.”

*ChatGPT, Find Me a Wife: From the Department of Love, AI Style: A Russian man has used AI writing to whisper sweet nothings to 5,000+ potential lovers — and find himself a bride.

Observes Alexander Zhadan: “I proposed to a girl with whom ChatGPT had been communicating for me for a year.

“To do this, the neural network re-communicated with 5,239 other girls — whom it eliminated as unnecessary and left only one.”

Zhadan also credits ChatGPT for engaging in small talk, planning dates and ultimately assisting him in proposing to his fiancée, according to writer Pranav Dixit.

No word yet if Zhadan also plans to off-load post-marital affairs-of-the-heart to automation.

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–Joe Dysart is editor of RobotWritersAI.com and a tech journalist with 20+ years experience. His work has appeared in 150+ publications, including The New York Times and the Financial Times of London.

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