{"id":2430,"date":"2024-01-12T17:50:38","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T17:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ewebtoolz.com\/blog\/i-tested-premium-ai-prompts-to-see-if-theyre-worth-it-theyre-not\/"},"modified":"2024-01-12T17:50:38","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T17:50:38","slug":"i-tested-premium-ai-prompts-to-see-if-theyre-worth-it-theyre-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewebtoolz.com\/blog\/i-tested-premium-ai-prompts-to-see-if-theyre-worth-it-theyre-not\/","title":{"rendered":"I Tested Premium AI Prompts To See if They\u2019re Worth It. They\u2019re Not."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"author-desktop\">\n<div class=\"post-navigation2\">\n<div id=\"fright\" class=\"share-post-top-bottom subscr-fright\">\n<p>Get the week&#8217;s best marketing content<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> <span><\/p>\n<p>We spent ~$80 to purchase five premium ChatGPT prompts and ran a blind test among the members of our marketing team to see if they were worth\u00a0it.<\/p>\n<p>Long story short: They aren\u2019t.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a id=\"post-170679-_uavqx8nedx4e\"\/>The experiment<\/h2>\n<p>Here\u2019s what I\u00a0did:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>I signed up for a service selling ChatGPT prompts and selected five SEO\u00a0ones<\/li>\n<li>I created simple versions of these prompts (27 words on average, vs. 227 for the premium prompts)<\/li>\n<li>I entered these prompts into ChatGPT<\/li>\n<li>I took the output and did a blind poll, asking the Ahrefs marketing team to guess which output was better.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>A total of 15 people took the\u00a0poll.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the results:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1147\" src=\"https:\/\/ahrefs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/most-marketers-on-our-team-thought-the-simple-ai-p.png\" alt=\"Most marketers on our team thought the simple AI prompts did better in a blind test\" class=\"wp-image-170680\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ahrefs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/most-marketers-on-our-team-thought-the-simple-ai-p.png 1600w, https:\/\/ahrefs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/most-marketers-on-our-team-thought-the-simple-ai-p-593x425.png 593w, https:\/\/ahrefs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/most-marketers-on-our-team-thought-the-simple-ai-p-768x551.png 768w, https:\/\/ahrefs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/most-marketers-on-our-team-thought-the-simple-ai-p-1536x1101.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>The premium prompts only convincingly \u201cbeat\u201d the simple prompt for two\u00a0tasks.<\/p>\n<p>Considering that you\u2019ll need to cough up money (in some cases, a lot) for these pre-engineered prompts, I\u2019m skeptical they\u2019re worth it at all. I don\u2019t think you\u2019re missing out if you don\u2019t\u00a0pay.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a id=\"post-170679-_py0bp8g44nfq\"\/>The anatomy of a \u201cpremium\u201d prompt<\/h2>\n<p>Pretty much all of the \u201cengineered\u201d prompts we tested had a similar structure.<\/p>\n<p>I tried to break down what I\u00a0saw:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1800\" height=\"2828\" src=\"https:\/\/ahrefs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/anatomy-of-a-premium-ai-prompt.png\" alt=\"The anatomy of an &quot;engineered&quot; prompt\" class=\"wp-image-170685\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ahrefs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/anatomy-of-a-premium-ai-prompt.png 1800w, https:\/\/ahrefs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/anatomy-of-a-premium-ai-prompt-271x425.png 271w, https:\/\/ahrefs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/anatomy-of-a-premium-ai-prompt-768x1207.png 768w, https:\/\/ahrefs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/anatomy-of-a-premium-ai-prompt-978x1536.png 978w, https:\/\/ahrefs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/anatomy-of-a-premium-ai-prompt-1304x2048.png 1304w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\"\/><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1800\" height=\"2828\" src=\"https:\/\/ahrefs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/anatomy-of-a-premium-ai-prompt.png\" alt=\"The anatomy of an &quot;engineered&quot; prompt\" class=\"lazyload wp-image-170685\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ahrefs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/anatomy-of-a-premium-ai-prompt.png 1800w, https:\/\/ahrefs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/anatomy-of-a-premium-ai-prompt-271x425.png 271w, https:\/\/ahrefs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/anatomy-of-a-premium-ai-prompt-768x1207.png 768w, https:\/\/ahrefs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/anatomy-of-a-premium-ai-prompt-978x1536.png 978w, https:\/\/ahrefs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/anatomy-of-a-premium-ai-prompt-1304x2048.png 1304w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1800px) 100vw, 1800px\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Specifically, here are the patterns:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Role<\/strong> \u2014 Asks ChatGPT to act as a professional or expert with specific skill\u00a0sets.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Target language<\/strong> \u2014 Acts ChatGPT to respond in a particular language.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ultra-specific instructions<\/strong> \u2014 Asks ChatGPT to do XYZ action in extreme detail.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Emphasis on human-like writing<\/strong> \u2014 Asks ChatGPT to write in a specific tone or\u00a0style.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Specific output<\/strong> \u2014 Asks ChatGPT to structure its response in a specific format, such as markdown, tables, code boxes, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a id=\"post-170679-_jwmg77dja9sv\"\/>The takeaway<\/h2>\n<p>This experiment is by no means academic nor scientific. It\u2019s just a fun, informal test to see if \u201cengineered\u201d prompts could perform better than a simple command\u2014<em>at least<\/em> according to human interpretation.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the results, though, I\u2019m not convinced that \u201cpremium\u201d prompts <em>really <\/em>do that much for you. It\u2019s probably better to start off simple and then refine accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>So, don\u2019t waste your money. Use it to upgrade to ChatGPT Plus instead.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/siquanong\">Let me know on <s>Twitter<\/s> X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <\/span><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ahrefs.com\/blog\/premium-ai-prompts\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get the week&#8217;s best marketing content We spent ~$80 to purchase five premium ChatGPT prompts and ran a blind test among the members of our marketing team to see if they were worth\u00a0it. Long story short: They aren\u2019t. The experiment Here\u2019s what I\u00a0did: I signed up for a service selling ChatGPT prompts and selected five [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-seo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewebtoolz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewebtoolz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewebtoolz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewebtoolz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewebtoolz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewebtoolz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewebtoolz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewebtoolz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewebtoolz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewebtoolz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}