Is it time to fire your advertising copywriter? OK, I am just kidding. I like copywriters. In fact, many of my best friends are copywriters.
OK, OK. I recently played with an AI writing tool called Talk To A Transformer. From the website:
Built by Adam King (@adamdanielking) as an easier way to play with OpenAI’s new machine learning model. In February, OpenAI unveiled a language model called GPT-2 that generates coherent paragraphs of text one word at a time.
For now OpenAI has decided only to release three smaller versions of it which aren’t as coherent but still produce interesting results. This site runs the largest released model, 774M, which is half the size of the full model.
Play with this. It just might write your next novel… or headline. (Yes, that is Bill Bernbach in the pic.)
Go here to see Talk To A Transformer.
Need More AI Copy?
Ad Age recently wrote about another AI writing tool.
Here is what Ad Age wrote:
Which ad copy for a banking service is more effective?
A) “Access cash from the equity in your home.”
or
B) “It’s true—You can unlock cash from the equity in your home.”
If you answered B, you are correct. It did better with Chase Bank customers than A did.
Answer B was written by a machine learning language model developed by Persado, “a New York-based company that applies artificial intelligence to marketing creative.”
Kristin Lemkau, chief marketing officer of JPMorgan Chase, noted that machine learning can actually help achieve more humanity in marketing. “Persado’s technology is incredibly promising,” she said in a statement. “It rewrote copy and headlines that a marketer, using subjective judgment and their experience, likely wouldn’t have.”
Chase plans to use Persado for the ideation stage of creating marketing copy on display ads, Facebook ads and in direct mail, according to Yuval Efrati, chief customer officer at seven-year-old Persado. He says that the AI company works alongside Chase’s marketing team and its agencies.
By The Way – I’m A Genius:
I put this copy into Talk To A Transformer: “Peter Levitan is a marketing genius.” Here is what I got back.
Levitan’s marketing plan for this film is genius. It should’ve been called The Greatest Marketing Plan Since The Great Depression.
This film should’ve debuted on the Oscars, but they gave it an A. It should’ve been called The Greatest Movie in Hollywood History.
Maybe with this tool, even I can become an official advertising copywriter.
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