{"id":17936,"date":"2025-07-19T18:26:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T18:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/?p=17936"},"modified":"2025-07-19T18:26:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T18:26:52","slug":"one-legged-copywriter-in-an-arse-kicking-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/one-legged-copywriter-in-an-arse-kicking-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"One legged copywriter in an arse kicking contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was recently forwarded a post of a copywriter who&#8217;s like a one-legged man in an arse kicking contest.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the highlights:<\/p>\n<p>* The copywriter working for an agency was mandated to process his copy through AI detection software, because their clients (wisely) want to know humans wrote the copy<\/p>\n<p>* The problem was, so-called AI was flagging human copy as AI-written<\/p>\n<p>* The result is the so-called AI limiting what the human copywriter can even say\/do without being flagged as AI<\/p>\n<p>* Wording legitimately required to describe the offer sold is even flagged as AI<\/p>\n<p>* The copywriter had to dumb down language and generate nonsensically boring content to appease AI instead of serving not only the client but the reader\/prospect<\/p>\n<p>I think you can take it from there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBro! AI is here to stay!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oh, we know, lil&#8217; anon, we know&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And those who don\u2019t use it to do their thinking and writing are going to dominate in direct response over the coming months and years. I have been seeing more and more copywriters starting to see the limitations of the FOMO-created mad dash phase, realizing what it&#8217;s legit useful for and what it&#8217;s not, and seeing the corporate-pushed Narrative crumbling in real time.<\/p>\n<p>All of which is why imo there ain\u2019t no better time to be your own client, sell your own offers, and use client works as an option and not a necessity.<\/p>\n<p>If you go that route then I highly suggest growing an email list, mailing it each day something they want to read, selling it offers they want to buy.<\/p>\n<p>A good resource for the email side is the paid Email Players newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>More on that here:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.BenSettle.com\/alt\"><strong>www.EmailPlayers.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ben Settle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was recently forwarded a post of a copywriter who&#8217;s like a one-legged man in an arse kicking contest. Here are the highlights: * The copywriter working for an agency was mandated to process his copy through AI detection software, because their clients (wisely) want to know humans wrote the copy * The problem was, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,8,9,11,14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17936","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business-building","7":"category-clients","8":"category-copywriting-and-sales-letters","9":"category-email-marketing","10":"category-inner-game","11":"category-sales-marketing"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17958,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17936\/revisions\/17958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bensettle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}