These AI tools, though less famous than ChatGPT, are similar and may be worth exploring. Please note that some may involve fees. And please remember, these are non-library resources for which UMGC librarians cannot give user support.
- Bard – A Google product, Bard can be used to explore creative ideas & explain things simply. It’s a Google AI experiment that can generate text, translate languages, and write different kinds of creative content.
- Jasper – A commercial product, Jasper is designed for writing ad copy, blogs, and other content. Although primarily aimed at sales and marketing, it also has the capability of “improving” a piece of writing, can create or improve long form text (it advertises writing of books), operates in multiple languages, and does plagiarism and grammar checks. It is one of the more frequently reviewed products in this space. It is fee based.
- Writesonic – “Writesonic’s GPT-3 language model deploys powerful AI to generate blog posts, landing pages, adverts, product descriptions, and emails, so it’s a top choice if you need a versatile writing tool” (TechRadar, 2022). It works in multiple languages and advertises a ChatSonic version (“like Chat GPT, but with superpowers”). Fee based.
- Article Forge – This tool advertises that it “writes entire 1,500+ word articles automatically” in about 60 seconds. Many of the others will write long format also, but this tool seems to be particularly designed for this. It also does plagiarism checking. Fee based.
- WordAI – This company advertises that their tool is best at improving existing content. This tool is a favorite (according to techradar) of people in tech. It is more of a rewriting tool than a content creation tool. “This tool can totally restructure your sentences and paragraphs to make them easier and more pleasing to read, and WordAI will automatically add keywords, make your writing more varied and fix spelling and grammar mistakes. It can use AI to improve clarity, and it’ll avoid duplicated content and create up to 1,000 rewrites per article” (TechRadar, 2022). Fee based.
- AI Writer – Like many of these tools, AI Writer is geared toward the production of web content and search engine optimization (SEO). It is largely designed for sales and marketing. Unlike many of the other tools, AI Writer provides a list of sources and citations. Also does text rewording, although partly this is for SEO optimization, not just readability. Fee based.
- Ink – A relatively new product built on GPT-3, it is designed for expanding text you have written, rewriting/editing text, and generating text. Like some other tools, it will give you multiple variations to choose from for each prompt. It also includes grammar support and a readability score, so if you do your own writing/editing it shows you how the readability changes. Fee based.
- Moonbeam – This tool has been mentioned in recent Inside Higher Ed articles on AI, probably because of Moonbeam's pricing and because it is trained to write essays, which makes it attractive for students. Free version as well as fee based.
Thank you to the University of Toronto Artificial Intelligence in Teaching & Learning curated bibliography for this information and descriptions.
