Spent $5k on a fancy AI content tool and it almost tanked a client's site

We bought a yearly subscription to ContentBot Pro for a local restaurant chain in Austin. The stuff it wrote was so generic and full of weird, repeated phrases that their organic traffic dropped 40% in three months. I had to spend weeks manually rewriting it all to sound like a real person. Has anyone else had to do a full content rescue mission after trusting an AI tool too much?

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fiona_west212mo ago

How much did you pay for that tool again?

andrewwebb2mo ago

Wait, you got it for free? That's wild, because I paid full price last month. They must have changed the deal or something.

the_troy2mo ago

Yeah, "they must have changed the deal" is so true. My buddy Jake got the same thing for free last week just by using a promo code from a newsletter. He said it was some kind of weekend flash thing they didn't really advertise.

the_jennifer1mo ago

Wait, did Jake get it for free or just a big discount? Because sometimes those newsletter codes are like 80% off but not totally free. I remember seeing that flash deal and it was still like five bucks.