Evaluating New Entrants to the World of Gen AI

GenAI Tools You Need to Know About

ChatGPT, a generative artificial intelligence (gen AI) tool, was released by OpenAI, and that tool was soon quietly followed by other entrants to the space, including Perplexity and Claude. Then DeepSeek burst onto the scene, far from quietly, in January 2025. Almost immediately, tech companies started to worry because DeepSeek supposedly represented a low-cost option, but now experts are saying that may not be the case.

But DeepSeek isn’t the only disruptive entrant in the space. There are a continually growing number of tools and features that content creators need to know about.

Staying on top of a continually evolving GenAI landscape

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B2B Messaging That Resonates

I recently responded to a reporter’s request for input on how to make business-to-business (B2B) content more memorable. It’s a great question, especially in a generative AI (GenAI) environment where an increasing amount of content is being generated by GenAI tools, rather than humans.

That automatically makes any content that you generate generic and marginally useful. Dare to be different! Here’s how.

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Why AI-Generated Content is Likely to Miss Emerging Trends

I was writing a trends piece for a client recently and, as I often do, I posted a call for input on sites like SOS (formerly HERO), Connectively, Qwoted, and Help a B2B Writer. I received close to 200 responses! To help me sort through the input and get a sense for what the top trends were based on this expert input, I did a simple tally.

And I started to notice something interesting. Continue reading “Why AI-Generated Content is Likely to Miss Emerging Trends”

Understanding Copyright Issues in the Age of AI

There are a lot of questions related to who owns the copyright of AI-generated work - and how you can protect your own intellectual property in an era of generative AI.You ask ChatGPT (or one of a growing number of similar automated content generators) to write copy for a blog post that you post to your company’s website. The app wrote the entire copy. Later, you find that another company has lifted the post, verbatim, for use on their own site. Can you sue them for copyright infringement? Continue reading “Understanding Copyright Issues in the Age of AI”

Creative Ways Content Marketers Are Incorporating GenAI Into Their Practices

Using GenAI for content marketing - tips and best practicesAs content marketers have become more familiar with generative AI (GenAI) and the many tools available to leverage its power, they’ve come up with a wide range of business applications and efficiency- and effectiveness-gaining opportunities.

While some have decried the disruptive impacts of this technology, others are embracing it and finding increasingly creative ways to save time and gain efficiencies. Continue reading “Creative Ways Content Marketers Are Incorporating GenAI Into Their Practices”

Perplexed by Perplexity: Increasing Unrealiability Makes Me Question Value of Generative AI (GenAI) Output

It seems that I have been experiencing a continued decline in the accuracy and reliability of the AI tools I use. I generally like Perplexity and have used it for tasks like summarizing documents, reviewing interview transcripts, editing, etc. I always double-check results for accuracy—and that’s a good thing because I’m finding these tools to be increasingly unreliable.

Can GenAI Count? Apparently Not.

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Proud To Be Human: Promoting the Responsible Use of GenAI

I’m sure I’m not alone when I say it’s been a crazy year for content creators. The rapid introduction and advancement of tools like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and a host of others, have upended the content creation process for many offering both benefits and posing threats. Continue reading “Proud To Be Human: Promoting the Responsible Use of GenAI”

A New Era in Content Creation: Be Careful Out There!

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We recently had a source—not an editor, or client, but a source—ask if we had used AI to generate content for a profile for one of their executives.

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Will Google Algorithms Save the Day (Again) for Content Creators?

Random, middle of the night thought…

Those of you who have been in the content marketing industry for a while (at least back to 2008) probably remember the “content mills” and how tough the market was for writers back then until Google switched up its algorithms to reward sites for original, higher-quality content.

I’m wondering if Continue reading “Will Google Algorithms Save the Day (Again) for Content Creators?”

Going Crazy With GenAI: What Marketing Consultants Could Learn From Willy Nelson and Jelly Roll

One of the big downfalls of GenAI is that it currently only draws from content it is trained on that already exists. So, the information it generates is “known.” GenAI can’t (yet) create new material; it can only consolidate and spew back what’s already been created by others. In other words, “it” cannot be innovative.

But you can!

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