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The general AI chatbots like ChatGPT and Bard or Gemini and Bing or Copilot , whatever they're calling themselves this week , are really good at writing , but they have two weaknesses , accuracy and predictability .
I never know when the chatbots like Chat GPT , whether they're gonna give me just one paragraph or they're gonna give me an entire dissertation or something somewhere in between .
And I've found that even when I'm really specific in my prompt about how long I want something to be , they don't always listen .
I also experience unpredictability issues on what the formatting will be in what it generates .
Sometimes , they don't seem to understand what I want no matter how hard I try to explain it .
A few months back , I went on a mission to try and find a long form AI writing assistant to help me write articles and blog posts .
I wanted something that would be easy to use , produce full length articles , and be as accurate as possible .
After all my research and comparing , I settled on LongShot AI , and that's what I've been using .
And right now , I'm gonna show you around LongShot .
So come on .
We're inside LongShot at the dashboard , and this shows us a group of pretty popular auto blog workflows .
We're gonna switch and say view all so we can see everything here .
Some of their latest work flows are at the top , the video script , insurance blog , and fantasy story .
I also have how to guides , listicles , pillar content , which is my favorite , and then quite a few more .
Product specific things , we have product or service use case , alternative to , comparison posts , and product reviews .
You can also create your own workflow if you want a combination of some things that are here .
You wanna create something totally different .
You can use the custom blog builder or the bring your own workflow style .
They do add workflows fairly regularly , and that's what you see at the bottom is what's coming along coming down the pipe .
Now each one of these workflows is designed to give you something a little bit bit different , mostly in the formatting .
Sometimes it has to do with the length .
For instance , the video script , that'll be laid out like a script .
Listicles , obviously , will be in a list numbered list format and so on .
Pillar content is my favorite .
That's the one we'll look at , and there's really 3 steps to this .
The first step is you tell it what you want .
It'll then generate some options for a title .
You look through those .
You pick the one you want .
Once you have a title , it'll generate an outline .
You'll look at the outline , make any changes you want , or regenerate the whole thing , and tell it let's go , and then you'll end up with your completed article .
We'll keep the language as English .
For topic today , I think we'll do Apple Vision Pro .
For keywords description , you can either use comma separated keywords , or you can describe what you want the article to be about .
I'll use Apple , Vision Pro , and virtual reality .
Tell it how formal you want it to be , either casual , formal , or right in between .
And then for tone , you can pick between personable , confident , empathetic , engaging , witty , or direct .
We'll say personable , and then before you come hit generate down here , go back up to the top on the right side , decide what model you want to use .
You have GPT 4 .
It's more creative but slower .
Or you have Claude 2 , which is more comprehensive , long , and accurate according to LongShot .
I've had mixed results with both of these , so I can't necessarily say one is better than the other .
And then your mode , you have normal which is gonna use the AI , the GPT's pretrained data .
You have SERP which is gonna look at what the results are from Google .
It's particularly helpful if you need something more recent than what the AI was trained on .
It's also pretty good for accuracy .
File , you can upload a file , any file you have , and it will use that as its source of knowledge .
You can also point it to a URL , a specific page on a website .
If you wanna add URLs , you can it was that you could add up to 5 of them , but they're in the process of changing that to 10 .
So the limit will be 10 URLs that you can provide .
Or if you wanted to look at an entire domain and not specific URLs , not specific pages but just an entire website , you can use the domain mode .
For this article , since it's fairly recent and I know there's been plenty of talk about it , we'll use the cert mode .
Brand voice , we're gonna leave at default .
Brand voice allows you to upload files or provide it with URLs , and it will then learn your style .
Then when you come in to create something like this under brand voice , you'd select that style you created and it'll try and emulate it .
Okay .
So with everything selected , let's go ahead and hit generate .
We have some headlines to pick from .
If we like one of these headlines , we just pick it .
And if we don't , we can just say regenerate , and it'll make a new one .
If we like most of what's in in a headline but want to make some tweaks we can do that too .
We can just select the one that we kind of like and then make whatever changes we want to make here in the edit headline .
We're happy with the headline , we click next and now it gives us an outline for this article .
And you'll notice it's using different HTML tags , so h two and then under that , h threes .
Nicely broken up into sections .
If there's something we don't want in our article , we can just click the trash can that's , runs alongside that item .
We can also rearrange things .
If we wanna move where something is , we can just click and drag .
And if we want something to be at a different level , click on the tag , and it'll move through from h 2 , h 3 , h 4 .
We're We're gonna leave everything alone there .
If we don't like this outline at all , if there's just too much about this that we don't like and we wanted to start over , Just click regenerate , and it'll regenerate the outline .
We're happy with this outline , so we're gonna say generate blog .
Long shot refers to an article or a blog post as a blog .
It's a little weird to me .
The blog is the entire section of the website that contains blog posts or articles .
The single post , the single piece of content , that's a blog post or article , not a blog , but it it calls them blogs .
Now it's created the entire post or article , whatever you prefer to call it , and it has dropped us here into the long shot editor where we can make any changes that we wanna make to it .
It also provides us some information .
It tells us what the word count is , what the reading score is based on the Flesch Kincaid , and it tells us the semantic SEO score .
It also shows us the SEO keywords .
And if you have an SEMrush account , you can integrate that here with LongShot AI .
Now overall , the blog post here looks pretty good , but I would never publish something here without reading it first .
If you know the thing it's talking about very well , read it yourself .
Make sure it's accurate .
If you don't know the details or there are details in here that you're not sure of , then you gotta do some fact checking and research to make sure you're not putting garbage out there .
LongShot does give you a little help with this .
You can switch over from blog performance to claims and fact check , and you can say detect claims .
And now it's completed that process , and it is showing us what it believes our statement of facts within this article .
So we can click one of these and say fact check .
We can also click a bunch of those at the same time and have it go fact check multiple claims that it found .
I just did one to make it go a little faster .
And what did it come back with ?
Okay .
So the claim is Applevision Pro launched recently .
Factuality is true .
The statement is accurate based on evidence provided .
Announced on June 5th 23 .
Preorder sergeant , it became available on February 2nd in the United States , and then it found some sources for that .
So that's good stuff .
And , no , it does not just come back and always say that whatever it wrote the article with is accurate .
I have had it come back and say , no .
This is not accurate because and tells me why .
Seems like the claim detection is , a little bit on the conservative side , which is probably a good thing .
You also have the AI assistant right down here .
You can click on that and tell it what you want it to do .
When you're all finished with your article , blog post , or whatever it is , you can download it , you can export it , either via a link that you can share or any custom connection , or you can save it within your LongShot documents .
In addition to the Autoblog workflows , again , the one we used here was the pillar content , Longshot AI offers fact gpt .
This is more chatbot style but it's focused on generating factually accurate content and it provides you some examples of prompts that you might wanna use in here .
Compose a tweet about the benefits of meditation for mental health .
Write a short LinkedIn update about overcoming common work place challenges .
We'll try this one , summarize the latest developments in electric vehicle technology .
It just moves that example down to the prompt box , which you could type whatever you wanted here .
We're going to check the web search box , which ensures it'll search the Internet and not just rely on the most recent AI training .
It generates the response with inline citations and then gives links to those citations below .
We can take this response if we wanna work with it some more and add it to the editor , switch over to the advanced editor .
If we wanted more and wanted this paragraph to be a little bit longer , we could grab this text here , come down to our little AI chat box .
You have options to pick from here .
I'm gonna say expand content .
The robots go to work .
We look at that .
If that's what we wanna add , click it , and now it's replaced the original paragraph that was there .
The content planner , pretty nifty feature in Long shot AI .
You can simply enter a topic here and hit the arrow button , or you can add more context .
So maybe our topics , inexpensive meals , our audiences , people with large families , and our additional context is healthy meal ideas for busy moms on a budget .
We hit the go button , let the robots start thinking , and then what it's come up with is about 10 different ideas .
Any of these that we like and wanna work with , we can just bookmark .
If there's something that we wanna get into right now , we can click on it , pick our workflow , and start creating an outline .
LongShot AI has some other tools like fact check .
You drop the text in here , tell it what the topic is , and to fact check .
I just dropped a little bit of crazy text in here that has a whole lot of things wrong with it .
You just click the fact check button , and it starts detecting the claims .
It did a great job of finding everything in here that was a claim .
We'll just select the ones we want it to verify , and it tells us claim by claim whether each statement is accurate or not .
And if it's not , it gives us a correction , reasoning , and links where we can go find the evidence provided .
So they could not find anywhere where Tim Cook said the iPhone is the worst smartphone ever made , and it says it is not supported by the evidence provided .
So they could not find anywhere where Tim Cook said that , and I didn't think they would .
Another tool is the SEO checker .
You can type in text or select a document , and it will do some analysis on your SEO score .
The repurposer lets you take any document that you've already got in LongShot AI or you can paste in text .
You can turn it into a Twitter thread , a tweet , LinkedIn , promotional email , lead generation email , q and a executive summary .
So that's pretty handy .
BotShot allows you to create a no code knowledge base chatbot that you can put on your website or content management system .
So you just supply it with the training information you want it to have , whip it together , and you've got one of those handy dandy little chat bots for your website .
They've recently added this assets feature which allows you to store files , documents , information that you want LongShot to pull from when it's generating content .
Integrations , they also integrate with SEMrush , Hub Spot , Ghost , Medium , WordPress , and , of course , the Chrome extension .
The Chrome extension , while you're surfing the web , if you find something of interest , you can quickly mark it and get it into LongShot AI to start working with it .
Brand voice , when we talked about this earlier , this is where you just supply your text URL or upload a file and start to build the training on what your style is .
And then when it's generating content in the future , you can specify a brand voice that you want it to style after .
Pricing for LongShot AI starts at $19 a month if you pay annually .
That's for 1 user , 2,000 monthly credits , which is about a 100000 words .
Of course , the advanced AI models , the 50 templates , all the factuals , integrations , and unlimited projects and documents .
And this is the plan that I have .
The team plan is the next step up .
It includes everything in pro plus access for 5 users , 10,000 monthly credits , which is about 500,000 words , collaboration , analytics , and priority support .
They do offer a no credit card free trial , and that , of course , is how I started out and took it for a test drive to make sure it's what I wanted .
I don't recall exactly how many credits you get in the free trial , but I know that it was not restrictive .
It gave me plenty of room to try multiple different generations and make sure it was I was happy with the results .
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