The latest trend in the ChatGPT space is a concept known as 'echowriting.' Created by students from Sydney who wanted to cheat on their assignments, the prompt engineering technique is now recognised and used by marketers, SEOs, and professionals who use ChatGPT in their day-to-day work.
Echo writing is a prompt engineering technique for making ChatGPT-generated text closely resemble the writing style of the user. Here’s 3 main reasons why ChatGPT users do this:
Don’t just stick with the basics; get inventive. The whole point of EchoWriting is to make AI-generated content indistinguishable from what you’d naturally write yourself, and these techniques below will do just that.
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Yes it does work. As a matter of fact, most of this entire article including this part here was written with the help of Echowriting techniques in our custom AI software that mimics the way you write. You probably wouldn't even be able to tell.
Echowriting prompts are the instructions themselves which are given to ChatGPT to make it generate text in the user's specific style. See below for a list of 3 of my own Echowriting prompts that produce the best results.
As I mentioned above, people who use echowriting typically want the output to sound like it was written by them.
Just for example; freelancers echowrite to make their ChatGPT-generated text sound like it was written by them, which builds trust between them and the client. Big agencies also benefit by using this technique to maintain a uniform tone in client interactions, whether it’s for emails, reports, or marketing campaigns. By having ChatGPT mimic their writing style, these professionals can manage large volumes of communication while still giving the impression of personal involvement.
The most common EchoWriting technique; phrase mapping, which involves listing the common phrases you expect ChatGPT to use in it's output, then asking ChatGPT to replace them with words that you would use instead.
Not only is it the most effective echowriting method, but it's also the easiest to do.
To achieve this, you first need to identify the common phrases that ChatGPT frequently uses when writing about your topic of interest. For instance, if ChatGPT often says “in summary” but you would rather say “Altogether,” when writing scientific essays, then that’s an easy swap. You just need to compile a list of these frequent phrases and words, then replace each one with terms that you naturally use in your writing.
"Throughout your response, retrofit the following phrases with my listed alternative:
It's important to note - Just remember that
On the other hand - coming over to it's counterpart
Imagine - try to visualize
My friend - bro........."
Try replacing single words with longer phrases, as that helps to vary the sentence lengths and structure.
You can ask ChatGPT explicitly to write the way you write by providing a sample of your own text. This is essentially how AI models are trained, but with thousands, if not millions of samples.
This one isn't as effective as the first method above, but it still works. Why not try combining the two to create something more powerful!
"Rewrite the input text to mimic this specific tone and writing style, focusing on sentence structure, vocabulary level, punctuation, and linguistic techniques used in the following example:
(enter your own text here)"
This one is pretty simple. Just give ChatGPT a sample of your writing and ask it to identify the key features that makes your style unique. Once you have that information, ask ChatGPT to write in that same style.
The following are the main features you want to replicate:
"Paraphrase every other verb, noun and adjective with a more conversational alternative. Longer, descriptive phrases are preferred over single adjectives.
Write with a less predictable sentence structure, to do this, here is a list of filler words and phrases. I want you to use at least one of these words/phrases in every sentence: “ok, so, too it's almost, that, is that, yet, very, very, rather, a bit, a little, slightly, in a way, so, in some respects, more or less, nearly, almost, virtually"
simplify all of the language, using phrases like "sets peoples' minds back to" and "basslines heavy on the reverb." This type of vocabulary is more casual and less precise.
It's one thing to humanize AI-generated text, and it's another to make sure the text actually sounds like you wrote it. That's where Echowriting comes into play. With EchoWriting, you can prompt ChatGPT strategically to make any AI-generated text sound like it was written by you.
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