Articles written by AI are too short to use—Techniques to nicely bulk up your AI-generated articles

It's suddenly gotten cold, hasn't it? ⛄️
Just a little while ago we still needed the AC, but now it's already the season where I want to eat oden under a kotatsu.

...Oden, sounds nice 🍢
Even though it's a hassle.

It's delicious, isn't it? 🍶
Even though it's a hassle.

Look.
Oden, you know.
It's not like you can just throw all the ingredients in at once and boil them, right?

It requires a lot of prep work.
For each ingredientyou know.

Beef tendon is simmered slowly over time on its own.
Daikon radish is boiled until soft in rice water on its own.
And you have to make a huge batch of boiled eggs too!

Since we're stingy, our mochi kinchaku (mochi pouches) are homemade too.
Because it's a popular ingredient that's never enough, I make a ton of them by hand.

Come on, you've got leftover Sato no Kirimochi from New Year's that you didn't finish, right?
Those have a shelf life of over a year anyway.
Just cut them up and put them in deep-fried tofu pouches.

The small deep-fried tofu pouches for inari sushi are convenient because they're already opened.
(The unseasoned ones, that is)

You seal the opening of the tofu pouch by stabbing pasta through it from all directions.
Pasta is surprisingly strong, and it's all good since you can just eat the cooked pasta along with it!

And then, you simmer each of the prepped ingredients in a large pot.
You can't let it boil vigorously, okay?
Keep the heat just below a simmer, nice and slow.
The flavor really soaks in 🍲

...Sounds nice, oden.
Even though it's a hassle.

So, today I'm writing this while giving in to temptation and preparing oden.

It's an oden packed with dreams and romance, featuring an eternal mochi kinchaku that's super filling and never seems to run out no matter how much you eat! 🍢

Now then.
I'm going to force a connection to the main topic just like this.

Speaking of that "volume" (wait, isn't this about oden?)
The theme this time is the problem of "when I write an article with AI,it doesn't have as much volume as I thought it would."

Ah. I totally get that.

I think this is a fairly common problem.
The case where the text written by AI is too compactly summarized and lacks substance.

Moreover, when you give instructions like "bulk this up to about 10,000 characters in total," haven't you ever had it insist, "I've written it in 10,000 characters!" while actually only writing about 1,000 characters?

It might be a common AI experience to get a little frustrated, thinking, "I told you to increase it, but it actually decreased???"

Actually, bulking up an article generated by AI is surprisingly difficult, and there are a few tricks to it.

So, this time, let's take a look at those "tricks."👏👏👏
Drumroll please🥁

If you "vaguely increase" the overall article volume, the quality will drop

When the resulting article is too compact and lacks substance, blindly giving instructions to "increase it!" is counterproductive.

Since AI can only provide vague answers to vague instructions, the synergistic effect of fluff and fluff will make it so fluffy it's unreadable (what kind of analogy is that lol)

A sponge cake that failed to rise won't rise no matter what you do, right?

The more you try to force it to expand, the more it will go in a strange direction. Pun intended.

Or rather.
When you want to increase the volume because the article lacks substance, you basically want to increase the density of the article, right?

It's not like it's fine as long as the character count increases, right?

Because that's like preparing a bigger bento box when you're already struggling because you don't have enough side dishes to put in it.
The point is, what's the use of accelerating the emptiness?

So, how should you go about increasing the density of an article?

The answer is...

...surprisingly, it was in the "headings."

Build it unit by unit

If you want to bulk up your AI articles, the secret is not in the article itself, but in properly creating the headings.

That's right.
Surprisingly, how you create your headings determines the quality of the finished article.

I mean, for those of you who aren't creating headings before generating an article, try doing that first starting today.
The final result will be on a whole different level.

With a prompt like this, you'll probably end up with a compact, hollow article.

Like that, you first create headings before generating the article.
Well, it's even better if you create an 'outline' before the headings!

Once you have the headings, you can roughly understand the story of the article, right?
That's where you make adjustments, like wanting the flow of the story to go a certain way or wanting to include specific episodes.

It means you are controlling the flow by generating the headings first before generating the article!

You incorporate your own requests, like 'Make the third chapter a guide for the cooking time of each ingredient.'

...Now, have you noticed?
Why I was talking at length about oden preparation at the beginning.

Oden isn't something you can make just by boiling all the ingredients at once.
Each ingredient requires preparation.

Beef tendon is beef tendon, eggs are eggs, and daikon radish is daikon radish; you prepare each one individually before combining them to boil.

Whether it's the block construction method of the Battleship Yamato, the unit baths of the Hotel New Otani, Gunpla, or Minecraft, you build the whole thing by combining the parts you've made, right?

You don't just inflate a large plastic bag all at once; you inflate the balloons inside.

That's the image for article generation, too.

It's like bulking up the whole thing by expanding the article for each heading, using the headings as the axis.

That's why the headings, which serve as the skeleton, become so important.
↓ This is an example of adjusting article volume by specifying the number of headings.

When the theme is broad or you want to write a long piece, you can specify the number of headings and subheadings like this.

By specifying the character count in detail based on the headings you created, you can easily adjust the volume.

Increase density with concrete examples

Now, we have looked at the technique of dividing by headings and specifying character counts, but I will introduce one more technique.

That is "concrete examples."

Like this, inserting concrete examples along the way adds depth to the article and increases the volume.

The more concrete the examples are, the more realistic they become,so it is effective to give instructions like "include 3 personal experiences" or "include 3 specific patterns."

However, since AI lies as naturally as it breathes, please be careful to fact-check as things become more specific!

You can't make a feast from an empty refrigerator

Organizing headings.
Specifying the character count for headings.
Inserting concrete examples.

We have looked at ways to increase the volume of an article, but there are cases where it still doesn't expand as expected.

That is, after all,
you can't make a feast from an empty refrigerator.Right?

So, if it doesn't expand as you'd like, it might not be the prompt's fault, but ratherthat there aren't enough ingredients to begin with.

It is possible that the AI does not have enough information to write a solid article.

In that case, there is nothing the AI can do, so it ends up repeating the same story over and over or summarizing it too compactly.

At that time, you need to provide the data on the human side, so please give the AI detailed information.

Also, this article explains it in detail, so please take a look if you'd like!!