I’ve spent years writing blog posts the old-fashioned way: sitting down, opening a blank page, getting distracted, wandering off, coming back, deleting half of it, and deciding that the remaining half might be “good enough.” That process has always felt very human to me—messy, inefficient, occasionally funny by accident.
So when artificial intelligence started writing blog posts that didn’t immediately sound like a toaster with opinions, I got suspicious.
Because here’s the thing: I know what bad writing looks like. I’ve written plenty of it myself.
The Uncomfortable Truth: Believable Isn’t the Same as Honest
When people say A.I. writing feels “fake,” what they often mean is that it feels too smooth. No awkward pauses. No weird tangents. No moments where the writer clearly got bored with their own point halfway through a sentence.
But smooth doesn’t mean unbelievable.
In fact, a lot of blog posts written by humans already read like they were assembled from spare parts. We’ve all seen them: earnest introductions, three tidy bullet points, a conclusion that promises transformation but delivers mild encouragement at best. If A.I. can reproduce that structure, it’s not because it’s lying—it’s because we taught it the formula.
How A.I. Pulls Off the Illusion
A.I. doesn’t “think” the way I do, and it definitely doesn’t procrastinate the way I do. What it does do is recognize patterns. Lots of them. It’s read more blog posts than any human ever could, which means it knows what a blog post is supposed to look like.
Give it a topic, a tone, and a little direction, and it will give you something that:
- Sounds confident
- Follows a logical flow
- Uses the right buzzwords
- Ends cleanly instead of trailing off into self-doubt
That’s enough to make it believable.
Not soulful. Not vulnerable. But believable.
The Missing Ingredient (and Why That’s Okay)
What A.I. doesn’t have is skin in the game. It doesn’t wake up annoyed. It doesn’t write because something has been rattling around in its head for three days. It doesn’t second-guess a sentence because it sounds a little too honest.
That’s where humans still matter.
The most convincing A.I. blog posts I’ve seen aren’t fully automated. They’re collaborations. Someone uses the A.I. to get unstuck, to shape an idea, to fill in the boring parts—and then they step in and mess it up just enough to make it real.
They add a stray thought. A slightly crooked sentence. A moment of uncertainty.
That’s not a flaw. That’s the point.
Why This Makes People Nervous
There’s an anxiety hiding under a lot of A.I. conversations: If a machine can write something that sounds human, what does that say about human writing?
I think it says we’ve been underestimating how patterned most writing already is. A.I. didn’t lower the bar—it revealed where the bar already was.
And maybe that’s not a bad thing.
If A.I. can handle the predictable, the templated, and the repetitive, that frees humans to lean harder into what machines can’t fake very well: voice, oddity, contradiction, and the occasional pointless tangent that somehow makes the whole thing feel alive.
So Yes, A.I. Can Write Believable Blog Posts
It can write posts that pass the glance test.
It can write posts that inform.
It can even write posts that sound confident and clear.
But belief—the deeper kind—still comes from the human fingerprints left behind. The slightly uneven rhythm. The sentence that lingers a little too long. The sense that a real person was here, thinking out loud.
A.I. can help write the post.
It can’t replace the reason you wanted to write it in the first place.
And honestly, that’s fine with me.
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Not ©2025 Chel Owens, as it was written entirely by ChatGPT
Proof:
I did warn you, last time I wrote.
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