I Rewrote 58 Newsletter Titles with AI, Here’s What I Learnt
The AI space is heating up particularly with generative AI art like DALL-E, Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, and several applications built on top of them like InteriorAI (Interior Design) and AvatarAI (Professional Avatars). Along with this increase in interest, there’s been a resurgence of text-based generative AI.
When GPT3 from OpenAI first came out, we got the first wave of AI applications like Copy.ai and others. Now we’re seeing different applications come to the surface. With that in mind, I just got access to Lex, an AI writing tool powered by GPT3 created by Every (a newsletter publication collective).
This seemed to be the first AI tool to be built for me — a newsletter writer — whereas earlier options were catering towards copywriters and social media managers
Lex has two main features currently. You can generate paragraphs of text — by supplying a prompt, an outline, or bullet points — or you can use the AI to create title options. While I’ve used both features, I was curious to evaluate the Title rewriting feature, and so I did.
I used Lex to provide alternative suggestions to the 58 published editions of The Discourse and here’s what I learnt:
