Say Hello to Squarespace's AI Feature for Website Text
Squarespace has launched the coolest new feature and I want to share this with you.
It's an AI Feature for Website Text.
Transcript below!
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0:00 Hey I want to show you the coolest new feature in Squarespace . Obviously chat gbt just for AI all these chat Bots have been sort of everywhere lately.
0:12 um and squarespaces come up with a really cool tool kind of in that line to help you come up with great content for your site well we're going to talk about that about all the different versions.
0:22 But let's see this is website copy that I wrote for my own business it's on my home page. This is just kind of filler copy normally when I do one of these presentations I would use some or Hip Strip some or something like that to fill some space you know but for now I
0:41 want to show you this new feature so if
0:42 You see this little lightning bolt you. How does it work?
0:45 Put it here we're going to say it gives you loads of different prompts you can use anything you want you don't
0:52 have to use any of these but it gives you a jumping off point which is good
0:57 um so for example let's say let's write a title about why we're the best website designers and and then I'm going to show you a couple
1:17 different variations and why this matters so I'm just going to put this in first you can see it's kind of slow.
1:22 Takes its time thinking and then it says insert now unlike ChaT GPT there's not really a way to talk back and forth with it to create kind of
1:32 um and there's no like Memory Bank of this is what we've talked about in the past which is sort of annoying now it
1:39 does know your business name it does know things that it's pulling from your site.
1:43 Um but like I can I'm going to put that in now then I'm going to do it again I'm going to say write a title about why we're the best website design agency and then I'm going to say keep the tone casual.
2:02 S,o you need to be really specific why with it so there we go that sounds a little more calm and casual and your office are
2:11 Remember to tweak the suggestions provided going to want to tweak these things you
2:14 probably shouldn't use them verbatim they all sound a little stiff a little proc like personality lists
2:22 And they're just a little off feeling to me having worked with a lot a lot of websites they're just a little you're going to want to use these as a jumping off point not as a the adult be all to what you're doing.
2:35 The other thing is so for example if you use this pros and cons or I'll use how that's please provide oops that's erase that and it doesn't format it so we've said. You'll have to format the suggestions too.
2:48 We wanted it to be a title it doesn't really format it as a title for us. You're going to then have to go ahead and put that as a title and and design it however you want.
3:00 A nice thing our kind of annoying thing is um and this is new they're going to be tweaking this perfecting it over time but right now it's verily fairly limited so,
3:12 If I wanted to say write seven questions and answers commonly received by web design and we're just gonna go with that again.
3:37 I would probably if I were doing this for my business I would say keep the cone casual keep it really brief those kinds of things you're going to want to be very very specific with AI in general.
3:46 When you're writing these um but you can see it's fairly slow to thinking it through it's going to provide me with a list but this is the part that I want to show you when it comes through so there it is.
3:58 What's your website design process so I'm gonna have to hit enter here and it just inserts it there's no formatting you're going to have to pop this either into a drop down or do a lot of formatting yourself.
4:13 And it does this with all text it creates there's no formatting so chat gbt if it's a bullet point list it provides you with the bullet points it's
4:21 all formatted nicely this just drops a big wall of text that you that you're going to have to format.
4:27 So that's that I but there's no way I can say okay actually yeah that's great
but can you redo this section for me you're gonna have to remember your prompts and be really specific with it.
4:39 That said there's a lot to that is going to be really good about this in um helping you fill blank spaces helping prompt your clients and be aware of the text limit.
4:50 So they're that's obviously like it wasn't really hard to do this up but I asked for seven and it cut off at six because there's a text limit for this AI model for this word prediction model so that's another thing is
5:07 Is as with all word prediction models there's not a lot of personality you have run the risk of plagiarism because it just regurgitates what's already on the internet.
5:19 You might run into issues with SEO because the search engines like Google included are being a little wishy-washy about how they're going to manage this.
5:27 As far as their ike spam filters and their um spam rankings and yeah so just be really careful with
5:3 tthis and other AIS but it can be really good if you want a headline so it's brand brand new.
5:48 It's going to be interesting to see how this develops along with a lot of other really cool Squarespace tools coming out.
