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AI-Writer Review

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After the first fiasco with “that other one” I didn’t go into this test and review with very many high hopes. As I got into it I let my guard down. Everything was going so well. No credit card required. I only had to come up with an idea — not half the freakin’ article. It generated two 1000+ word options. One with citations and one without. Cool. Cool.

Then the fun began.

I downloaded them both and other than the citations being included or not, they were exactly the same as promised. I decided to copy the text format into Medium and work with it from there. Yeah no. Didn’t work. Gray vertical box with the text inside and not formattable. Now I know what those boxes are when I see them in other people’s “writing”. They used AI to write the article instead of writing it themselves.

Good to know.

AI Writer without citations gave me a 920 word post. Not too shabby for free. I ran this version through an online plagiarism checker and here’s what I found out.

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YAY! “Only” 5% dipped. Way below what is considered acceptable. Now let’s see about the quality. In case you haven’t figured it out yet, this is where things go left. Way left.

Peter Pedro (August 30, 1334 — March 23, 1369), also called Cruel (el cruel) or legal (el justiciero) (el justiciero), King of Castile (1450–1369). Peter Pedro (August 30, 1334 — March 23, 1369) was simply (e.g. El jerviso) King of Castile and Leon from 1350 until 1369.

Peter was the son of Alfonso XI from Castile and Maria of Alphonso IV of Portugal. He was beheaded by his half-brother Henry I in 1369, who assailed him as the “king of the Jews” due to his opposition to the persecution of Spanish Jews. Peter was called “the Cruel One” because he was a son of the King of Castile and his wife Mary of Portugal, a daughter of Afonso IV.

He fled to Portugal with his treasury, where he was accepted by his uncle, King Peter I of Portugal, and from there to Galicia in northern Spain where he ordered the execution of Suero, Archbishop Santiago and Dean Peralvarez. In the summer of 1366, Peter sought refuge in Edward the Black Prince, whom he restored the following year.

• That’s the first three paragraphs of what AI created. The first paragraph is simply two sentences that repeat one another.
• “Peter was called “the Cruel One” because he was a son of the King of Castile and his wife Mary of Portugal, a daughter of Afonso IV.” With no further information as to how being the son of the king made him cruel.
• “… he ordered the execution of Suero, Archbishop Santiago and Dean Peralvarez.” Do we ever get to know why?
• “… Peter sought refuge in Edward the Black Prince, whom he restored the following year.” Why did Peter seek Edward out? Who was Edward to Peter? And who was restored to what?

And it never gets any better than this. Don’t just take my word for it. Here are the next three paragraphs.

Peter the Cruel waged a constant war with Aragon from 1356 to 1366, a war between two Peters in which he displayed both skill and skill in supporting his English allies and Castilian interests in the Mediterranean against French and Aragonese. Pedro IV, King of Castile and Leon (1350–1369) and his illegitimate brother, known as Henry the Bastard, started a rebellion against him and he asked Edward, Prince of Wales, who at that time was in Bordeaux, for help. Enrique portrayed Peter as the king of the Jews and had some success in exploiting the anti-Semitic feelings of certain sections of the population.

On April 29, 1362, Peter urged the Cortes to recognise Alfonso I (1359–1362) as Crown Prince of Castile and Leon as his rightful heir. Peter Castile succeeded his father, King Castile, after the death of the king in 1350.

Pedro el Cruel, Pedro el Justiciero) was born in Burgos, Castile, Spain, August 30, 1334. He died in Montiel, France on March 23rd 1369 and was celebrated as King of Castile and Leon (1350–1369), accused of monstrous cruelty by his contemporaries and enemies, and considered a strong enforcer of justice by later writers. Peter the Cruel (1334–69) was King of Castile and Leon from 1350 to 1369 and son and successor of Alfonso XI. His army was besieged by Peter, who after his death was accused of monstrous cruelty by his enemies.

Maybe English isn’t the first language of these bots? Hell, I don’t know. I just know that I’m not paying for some scrambled garbage output. If I’m going to have to rewrite the entire piece then again, I may as well just write it myself.

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