Titles and Subtitles

Titles are important; they set the stage, draw in the reader, and pique the interest as they build the desire to find out more. Subtitles are an additional nudge, a taste of what's to come, and often a clue to the upcoming content.

In some AI generated content they are also just a bit more; they are clues to the use of AI. The examples shown below are from our eleven actual Vocal stories which were published on 8/18/23.

The Broken Title

It is a Vocal requirement that all submitted content has both a title and a subtitle. Many AI tools provide only the title, so the user gets somewhat creative, and breaks off a word to use as the subtitle of this fiction piece:

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The Subtitle Giveaway

This example shows the user copying and inserting part of the actual AI communication and using it as the subtitle. This is the actual prompt they communicated to the program to craft the story, which they placed in the EARTH Community, not Fiction:

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The Quoter

Quotation Marks are used to attribute content to a source. While not unique to AI assisted content the use of quotes, especially in both the title and subtitle, can be an alert that is was pasted from AI and the user may subconsciously signal that it isn't their content.

In the second example, the story was written as Fiction but it was posted to the Art Community.

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The Aside Used as Subtitle

This user wrote the subtitle themselves as an aside to the reader.

The subtitle is at odds with the Community to which it was posted: it's their dream but it was posted to Book Club.

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Buzzwords

Several of the examples above include buzzwords: words that often occur in AI generated content. This will be explored more in the Location Names and Vocabulary chapters.

Take a moment now to jot down the words you think may be buzzwords. Don't look ahead!

The next chapter is on Featured Images.

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The content above is the First Chapter of my work in progress, described in this Vocal story.

This is the link to the next chapter: Featured Images:

I appreciate your comments: what questions regarding titles and subtitles are still unanswered for you? What do you think the buzzwords are from the examples shown?

Note- the image at the top was created by the author using Canva