Powered by Gemini, Help Me Write is the generative AI writing tool built into Google Docs and Gmail. Here’s how to get the most out of it while avoiding its pitfalls.
Whether you’re a professional writer or someone who dreads having to compose documents or emails for your job, the potential of AI assistance for your writing tasks is appealing. Powered by Gemini, Google’s generative AI platform, the Help Me Write tool in Google Docs and Gmail can write long passages of text that are reasonably readable.
It generates written text based on prompts (instructions) that you give it, which can give you a significant head start on any writing tasks. But its results come with caveats that may include factual errors, redundancy, and too-generic prose. And it’s never a good idea to use private or proprietary data when working with any generative AI tool.
This guide covers how to use Help Me Write in both Google Docs and Gmail to generate and rewrite text, and how to overcome some of the tool’s shortcomings.
Who can use Help Me Write?
If you have a Google Workspace account, the Gemini AI tools that include Help Me Write are available as part of your subscription. If you have a Google personal account, you can subscribe to Google One AI Premium to have access to these tools. Or, for no cost, you can sign up for access to Google Workspace Labs with your Google account to be permitted to try out Help Me Write and other experimental tools.
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