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✨In the business of making stories | CCO Penfriend.ai | Founder of fivethreeoh.com | $36M from SEO, storytelling and Content Marketing ✨
I’ve spent 652 hours this year understanding tone of voice. And most people are boring as f*ck. AI cannot write like you, because you don't know why you write the way you do. Let’s be clear. “Funny” isn’t a tone. “Serious” isn’t a tone. “Bold” isn’t a tone. You can’t have every word be funny, or serious, or bold, or challenge the norm… Tone, or better yet, the feel of an article is in the spikes. It’s where you push the sentence in one direction or another. It’s the contrast of these swings. It’s the build up of these swings. It’s the complete lack of all these things. It’s the “if the author hits you with a hard fact, then they comfort the reader soon after” type rules. Now, back onto the prompts and AI writing like you. How do you expect your prompts to replicate your tone when you don’t define what that tone is? Vague doesn’t do it. Have you ever gotten specific about what your writing feels like? About the unnoticed patterns in your writing? You ever done that analysis? I’ve spoken about this on pretty much every podcast I’ve done over the last year, but your prompts suck because you don’t know the process well enough to define for yourself, let alone the AI. Just a mini rant about AI content, from a guy who owns an AI content SaaS. I see so many companies doing “tone of voice” and frankly, they’re all shockingly bad. This is all to say, we’re doing voice replication in Penfriend. It’s coming soon. I heard “AI doesn’t sound like us, and it takes too long to make it sound like us” so many times on calls this year. So I spent 28 days of my life understanding what the core issue actually is. And then making a 15 step style analysis. DM me if you want me to make one for your blogs. I already had one of our beta testers tell me they'd paid $1,800 for something worse a few months back.