Can ChatGPT Help Rewrite Text?

Post author: Kevin Sims
Kevin Sims
2/3/23 in
AI

There are many questions around the use cases behind chatgpt. One big one going around is can chatgpt help rewrite text? Rewriting text is something a lot of writers and content creators do to help refresh or edit articles. Lets discuss ways in which chatgpt can help rewrite text with some examples from existing work from wordbot.

What is ChatGPT?

If your familiar with the openai playground, then chatgpt is similar but in a conversational style. Chatgpt was introduced in December of 2022 for free to the general public during beta testing.

chatgpt homepage
chatgpt homepage

When using chatgpt you will be presented with a screen like above. The left side shows all the history of conversations you had on different topics you can go back to. The middle is where you conversations take place in real time.

Unlike the openai playground, chatgpt has less of a learning curve when it comes to needing to understand how to get what you want out of it. For example with the openai playground you had to understand how to develop prompts for everything you needed, which took lots of time.

Chatgpt can help rewrite text by just asking it simple questions like you would a normal person.

How to Rewrite Text using Chatgpt

Rewriting text is the ability to take existing content and paraphrase it into your own words while keeping the same meaning. Doing this manually without the help of a tool like chatgpt can be very time consuming.

A couple reasons to rewrite text using chatgpt are:

  • Refresh content faster
  • Help fix grammatical errors you may have not caught
  • Help add new context around your current sentences
  • Improve the overall quality of the text

Creating a conversation with chatgpt to help rewrite text

For example lets take an example snippet of text from wordbot to see the end result of chatgpt helping us rewrite some of our existing text.

First thing I like to recommend when using chatgpt is feeding it small portions of text at a time. This helps make sure it can easily process things a lot faster. One downside to the chatgpt site is that it only gives you a small line to enter text into.

What I like to do is write out my question in a text editor before hand so that I can make sure all the formatting is correct. This example text from one of our articles here is what we will be trying to rewrite using chatgpt

  • Example Text: As a writer, one of the most satisfying experiences is when a line comes out perfectly. Most writers must rewrite their sentences for length, simplicity, and clarity due to word count limits, readability concerns, and word count targets. If done manually, this might be a time-consuming process. Rewording your words is now easier than ever thanks to sentence rewriter tools. Here is a list of the top 10 best sentence rewriter tools of 2022. We’ll show you how to use these tools to write copy that convert. We also highlight the best sentence rewriter programs, both free and premium, that you may use.
  • ChatGPT Question Format: Can you help me rewrite but keep the same meaning “As a writer, one of the most satisfying experiences is when a line comes out perfectly. Most writers must rewrite their sentences for length, simplicity, and clarity due to word count limits, readability concerns, and word count targets. If done manually, this might be a time-consuming process. Rewording your words is now easier than ever thanks to sentence rewriter tools. Here is a list of the top 10 best sentence rewriter tools of 2022. We’ll show you how to use these tools to write copy that convert. We also highlight the best sentence rewriter programs, both free and premium, that you may use

As you can see we asked it a simple question and here was the results:

Rewritten text from chatgpt
Rewritten text from chatgpt

Also the conversation will be automatically saved off to the left to be able to come back to later. You can also reword the question in other ways as well. For example I could of said “Could you help me rephrase the following text”

  • Output from Chatgpt: “As a writer, achieving the perfect wording in a sentence is a fulfilling experience. However, many writers must revise their sentences to meet criteria such as word count limitations, readability, and clarity, which can be a tedious process if done manually. Fortunately, sentence rewriting tools have made the task of rewording easier than ever before. In this article, we present a list of the top 10 sentence rewriting tools of 2022, explaining how to use them to write compelling content. We also feature the best sentence rewriting software options, both free and paid, available for you to use.”

Continuing a conversation with chatgpt

If you would like to continue rewriting additional text, staying in the same screen is beneficial for a couple of reasons.

  1. Chatgpt can reference up to 3000 words in the current conversation to help aid rewriting text.
  2. Rewritten text can be saved for later referencing
  3. Easier to make improvements faster on current text

If you find yourself not liking the current output chatgpt provided for the current text, you can give it better directions without providing the whole previous text.

For example you could say “rewrite the previous text again but make it shorter”

continue chatgpt convo
continue chatgpt convo

Now your in a stage where you can continue to make your current text a lot better by keeping the conversation going. This will also then help you make small edits yourself a lot quicker.

Conclusion

This article show a small sample of how chatgpt can help rewrite text for all types of content such as blogs, product descriptions, social media post and more. Currently chatgpt is still offered as a free version at the time of this writing. This may change at some point so signing up now to test it out can be a fun experience.

In this article we went over how to take an existing block of text and get help rewriting it into something new. Although this uses AI to help rewrite text, Its still recommended that you fact check the work and make sure its free of plagiarism.

GPT3 is an AI model that’s trained by data from the internet and this could lead to content being duplicated from other sources. Chatgpt is still in its early stages but will soon be built inside of a lot of different office productivity tools.

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