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 Anyone tried this? 
https://www.fundwriter.ai/ 
 Seems like cheating. 
 All ai assistance seems like cheating 
 anyone who says AI helps them with coding is a scripter

AI can't correctly handle time, sequence, pairings, concurrency, trees, hell, it barely even manages syntax a lot of the time, i tried it out for a month and it did nothing useful 
 I was just curious if anyone has tried this out. Most people doing grant qualified projects aren't grant writers.  I wouldn't think it to be bomb proof but maybe it could lay out a good basis to build the final proposal. Maybe it's cheating. Maybe it just sucks. I don't know. I'm just looking for useful tools.  
 well, i can relate to the grant project writing issue, i seem to be fairly good at it, won the one i'm working on now in the last stages (and running over time)

i have no idea if an AI can do this, but i can say that AI text manglers seem to be trained on marketing copy, i mean, it's so droll how repetitive it is i instantly know if i see 4 paragraphs i can almost tell you before reading the whole thing what phrase each paragraph will start with, that's how formulaic the output is

i managed to do ok without this, and i think that probably grant assessment boards are probably used to being spammed to hell with chatGPT generated same same same same and also can see the difference and probably it may actually benefit you now to write it yourself and deliberately make sure you don't use a formula... and maybe it helps also to have a little subtle humor in the text in places sometimes, i think that the assessors glaze over at the yawn same same oh yet another moron who has no idea pretending he has an idea 
 Thanks... Yeah, I suppose I'm just hitting some of that self-doubt stuff. Applying is still a couple steps out. It's just overwhelming 😅

 
 my suggestion is, use the AI to generate some inspiration, and razor that shit to hell

any human with a regular task of reading such texts will be familiar with the pure AI generated and will gloss over it, if they aren't already, they will

they are sifting through dirt to find gold, the gold is creativity 
 🫂 thanks  
 yeah, it's pretty ironic

i think AIs can probably replace some functionary roles but it's really overblown how much they can do