Burned $80 on an AI writing tool that promised to save me 10 hours a week

Honestly I fell for the hype and bought this AI writing assistant called something like WriteBot Pro last month. It was $80 for a yearly subscription and the ads said it would draft emails and blog posts in seconds. Tbh it just spat out generic garbage that sounded like a robot from 2015. Every paragraph had the same boring structure and I spent more time editing than if I just wrote from scratch. I tried using it for 3 different projects and each time I ended up deleting most of the output. The only thing it saved me was $80 down the drain. Has anyone else tried one of these premium AI tools and actually found one that works for real writing?

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jade2211mo ago

Wait, a blog post about gardening mentioned synergy three times?

linda_butler281mo ago

The synergy thing kills me lol. I got burned on one of those email tools too and every single subject line it wrote had some variation of "unlock your potential" like it was trying to sell me a timeshare. Ended up copying one of its "personalized" drafts for a client and it started off with "In todays fast paced digital landscape..." and I just noped right out of there. The worst part is these things train on the most basic corporate blog posts so they all talk like HR memos from 2012.

shane_ross1mo ago

Generic garbage that sounded like a robot from 2015" should be the tagline on their website lol. I tried one last year that kept calling everything "transformative" and "game-changing" like it was stuck in a LinkedIn influencer loop. Wound up feeding it the worst possible prompts just to see what it would generate, and it still somehow wrote a blog post about gardening that mentioned synergy three times.