Michael Whitfield is the Director of Brand & Content at Getsolved, and the person on the team most likely to argue that the hardest part of writing was never the grammar. He spends his time on the part that doesn’t show up in a style guide: the hesitation before hitting publish, the second-guessing that eats more time than the actual draft, the gap between “this is fine” and “this sounds like me.”
He treats writing as a process worth studying, not just a deliverable to check off — how people actually move from a blank page to something they’re willing to put their name on, and where AI genuinely helps versus where it just adds another thing to double-check. His interest isn’t in enforcing rules; it’s in understanding why a sentence that passes every check can still feel wrong to the person who wrote it.
Michael is a frequent voice in conversations about the changing relationship between writers and AI tools — less “is this AI-written” and more “what does it mean to write with confidence when a machine can finish your sentence for you.” He’s available for interviews and commentary on the future of writing, editing, and authorial voice in an AI-assisted world.
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9 articlesThese days, AI detection tools have become an important part of the writing workflow. Before submitting a paper, one should always check the AI score of their text to avoid receiving unpleasant emails from professors or bosses claiming the work is not theirs.
💡 Quick disclosure before we start: GetSolved also builds an AI detector, so Grammarly is a direct competitor to our tool. We’re writing this review with that conflict out in the open, and we’re not going to soften a real problem just because pointing it out helps our own case.
💡 Quick disclosure before we start: GetSolved also builds an AI detector, so GPTZero is our direct competitor. We’re writing this review with that conflict out in the open, and we’re not going to pretend GPTZero gets everything wrong just because it competes with our own tool. Where it performs well, we’ll say so.
I’ve spent the last few months running AI-generated drafts through every AI text humanizer tool I could get my hands on. My goal was to check what actually holds up against Turnitin and GPTZero, and what just scrambles a paragraph until it’s unreadable.
One flagged sentence can cost you a grade, a byline, or a multi-thousand-dollar client relationship. If you’ve ever hit “submit” on an essay or manuscript with a knot in your stomach, you already know why a reliable checker matters. Plagiarism issues rarely announce themselves before it’s too late.
A student is accused of academic misconduct because an AI checker flagged their own essay. A freelance writer loses a client over a single AI score. In both cases, it is the AI checker’s fault. So both point to the same question: how accurate are AI detectors?
Writing a novel sounds like an easy job. You have the main idea, but you need to maintain the same voice, make the characters believable, and not sound like an inexperienced writer. Editors are reliable allies, but their work takes time, and not every indie story writer can afford one.
Struggling to finally break through writer’s block, stop staring at that blank page, and come up with a decent first copy? Sure, there are a lot of questions concerning artificial intelligence, but let’s be honest: the right free AI writing tools can seriously speed up your workflow and handle a ton of the grunt work.
You used an AI program to improve your writing flow and realized you spent more time editing the output than necessary. AI is getting more powerful and widespread, but the challenge is finding a piece of software that creates accurate creative text with minimal need for editing.
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