AI Writing Is More Than Ghostwriting: What Bulk Drafting Reveals About Editorial Gaps
When people hear about using AI to write articles, they often imagine publishing a completed AI draft as-is. But creating a group of drafts can also expose gaps across an entire site that are difficult to see one article at a time.
In the original experiment, asking Codex and Claude to produce many article drafts revealed category imbalances, terms that kept reappearing, and topics the site needed next. On AI Jiten, AI is often more valuable as a planning and drafting partner than as a source of text that goes straight to publication.
Volume makes imbalances visible
When a site contains only a few articles, it is difficult to know whether the category structure makes sense. Line up ten or twenty proposed articles on one theme, however, and it becomes clear where several pieces repeat the same idea and where readers still lack an explanation.
This is not only a way to increase publishing volume. It is closer to prototyping the site in advance and checking where a reader might get lost.
Repeated terms become glossary and explainer candidates
If the same specialist term appears across several drafts, readers who do not know it may stumble each time. That is a signal to create a glossary entry or a separate foundational article.
The words most familiar to the writer are often the easiest to leave unexplained. Generating several outlines and counting repeated terms creates some distance from your own assumptions.
A draft you want to correct is easier than a blank page
An AI draft can still be useful when it does not sound like you. The reactions “This order is wrong,” or, “I want to put my own experience here,” create a starting point for the real article.
A blank page asks you to decide where to begin. A draft turns the work into finding and revising what is wrong. The goal is not to delegate the finished article, but to use the draft as material that draws out the writer’s thinking.
Start with five outlines, not fifty finished articles
- Choose one category
- Describe the intended reader and the purpose of the articles
- Ask for five outlines from different angles
- Mark repeated headings, recurring terms, and missing explanations
- Choose one outline where you can add your own experience, then write that article yourself
A structured instruction containing the goal, reader, and constraints will make the exercise more useful.
More drafts create more facts and more sameness to check
AI can mix plausible-sounding errors into its writing. The more material it produces, the more facts need review. Dates, prices, product specifications, and claims requiring evidence should be checked against primary sources by a person.
Volume is also not valuable when every article uses the same structure and phrasing. Put the writer’s experience, judgment, mistakes, and rejected options at the center—the parts an AI cannot supply on its own.
Use AI to prototype the site, not merely to produce publishable copy
The main advantage of bulk generation is not publishing a large amount of text at once. It is the ability to step back and see the whole. Begin with five outlines for one category, then look for repeated terms and explanations that are still missing.
Reference
- What I Learned by Asking AI to Write a Large Number of Articles (Delaymania, Japanese)
This article is based on information available as of July 20, 2026.
