My brother, Abdullberqy U Ebbo, is gifting 300K to 10 youths to write essays enumerating 10 things that Governor Bago of Niger State has achieved. He then requested our uncle, Baba Muhammad Dzukogi, and myself to pick the winning entries.
Immediately the essays started pouring in, I could tell which ones were written by AI. How did I know? Well, AI can tell you. But one doesn’t have the time to plug all the essays into machines to find out. If you’ve used AIs extensively, you can tell from the first paragraph. Here are the things to look out for:
- It’s boring.
It reads like a machine wrote it. You need to know the basics of prompt engineering to solve this problem.
- It uses double titles. This is especially a sickness of ChatGPT. Here’s one:
“Title: Transformative Leadership of Bago: 10 Remarkable Achievements So Far”
- It uses the word “title” in the title.
- It loves the word “transformative”. That’s a dead giveaway.
- The grammar is perfect and the typos are missing. If you’re familiar with the writer, you know that he didn’t write this.
So if you’ve submitted your essay use the insights from this post to correct it. No one says you shouldn’t use AI.
Very soon, everyone will use it. But don’t make it write for you, instead make it write with you. That is, if it gives you an essay, make some changes. Or, go to YouTube to learn prompt engineering.
