Should Vocal monetize AI?
What does it mean, the pros and the cons
Hello, hello,
This ideia popped up in my head after I received a new subscriber. I did what I always do, check out their writing and follow them back. I was surprised by seing that all their content had the "done by AI" marker. Every. Single. One
It shocked me, I knew that vocal allowed AI content but seing it blatantly displayed like that? Then that got me thinking, this person looked like they posted new writing every single day, that by itself is going to help them gaining views, because they can be the newest article in a community every day. Views equal money.
Where does vocal stand?
I started writing this and then stopped. Maybe I was feeling to revolucionary and Vocal doesn't monetize AI content. So I went into and did some research. The only information that I gathered about monetizing and AI is the following:
"Creators looking to monetize their work should also be aware that a ChatGPT-generated listicle will not give them the engaging content needed to foster readership and a community of subscribers." (original article here)
Okay, fair. The creators that I follow display emotions and human thoughts wich make me feel connected to them. If I ask AI to write me something it's not going to add some of the jokes I always make, or the flow of my writing.
But
But, they are still writing. They just open their computer, enter one of the many AI that now exist and say "hey, write a 600 word text about how trees are important, please" and copy it into here, pick a cover image (or ask it to also make one) and bam. Submit for review. Personally, if you only write using AI then I assume you are only here for the money. Which is fair, the state of the economy is horrendous. Actually, scratch that. It's not fair. Me and other creators spend hours of our day writing, making sure there are no typos, trying to think of more to say when we already finished writing because we haven't reached 600 words, and you, AI "writer" just stoll in publishing 3 articles for day making it seem that you are the human version of a tywriter.
Get to the point
This is how you know that I'm real because an AI wouldn't get distracted and drive away from the topic. Let's make a list:
1- Water. You are wasting water every time you use AI. We only have one planet and the corporations are poluting enough thank you
2- Writing experience. We all start somewhere, I'm not the best writer, I'm very far rom that. But If I don't practice how I am goint to get better.
3- Brain. Use your brain, we, humans, are losing brain power I swear, by writing you can train a lot of parts of your brain. You practice picking priorities (what's the first topic I'm going to talk about, how I'm going to end this article) and your critic eye (this is way this movie sucks, or, this is way I thing trees are important).
And many more...
The point
Vocal shouldn't monetize AI, yes, if I see a article marked "done by AI" I won't click it. But that doesn't mean that others won't. And every view counts, especially if they are constantly putting out new content. The article I spent the whole afternoon writing is going to be pushed down and my effort is going to disapear in the void of articles.
And that's it. What are your thoughts about the matter? Tell me in the coments. If you enjoy this check out my other articles:
How to make money the easy way
It's not an era, it's just life
See ya
JP
About the Creator
Joana Pires
An young adult writing to stop the boredom | reviews and essays


Comments
There are no comments for this story
Be the first to respond and start the conversation.