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Notable Features: AI generated writing
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Core Abilities: Jasper is a generative AI writing tool designed to create original content from user prompts. For academic work, its primary use is to overcome writer's block and accelerate drafting. By providing a prompt, researchers can generate initial drafts of sections, summarize complex text, or rephrase sentences for clarity using its extensive library of templates (“Summarize text”, “Explain it to a 5th grader”, “Paragraph generator”, “Content Improver”, etc). Jasper allows for precise control over tone and style, enabling users to specify a formal, academic voice, and can be trained to mimic an individual’s writing style, ensuring consistency across long documents.
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Limitations/ Risks: The foremost risk of using Jasper is its potential for factual inaccuracy; like other generative models, it can "hallucinate" and produce plausible but incorrect statements or fabricate references. Every piece of information it generates must be rigorously fact-checked against primary sources. The quality of its output is highly dependent on detailed, well-crafted prompts, requiring a learning curve to use effectively for scholarly purposes. Furthermore, Jasper is a premium service with no permanent free tier, and its usage-based credit system can be costly.
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Platform/ Integrations: Web dashboard (with cloud-saved documents), plus a Chrome Extension to use Jasper in Google Docs, Gmail, Notion, etc.. They also have a Microsoft Word add-in in beta. It’s accessible on any device with a browser; there’s no separate mobile app, though the web interface is semi-usable on tablet
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Pricing: 7-day free trial with 10,000 words generation for new users to test it out. There is no permanent free tier beyond this trial. Creator – $49/month (or $39/month billed annually) for one user, unlimited word generation, access to GPT-3.5 and some GPT-4, and standard features. Teams (Pro) – $69/month (or $59/mo annual) which includes up to 3 user seats and collaboration features
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Tutorials/ Reviews
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