I spent some time the other night updating some show notes that AI generated. There were at least seven words that not only would I never use, some of them I didn't even know what they were.

I know many people will blame the prompt. Learning to prompt takes time, and updating content that isn't even close to sounding like you also takes time. So with this in mind I ask,

"Is AI really saving us time?"

It surely does when it generates images for me as I am very much a "stick figure theater" kind of artist. But I've been typing since I was in middle school, and I have a brain. So I don't need artificial intelligence, I have actual intelligence.

So the text you are reading right now came from my brian, and is now going to you. Stevie Ray Vaughn called this "Soul to Soul." For me, having ai right a few paragraphs for show notes makes no sense when I can do it better, and in the same amount of time (I'm at 19:31 for recording, editing, creating an image and now writing show notes)

So let AI do the things you can't, and consider doing the things you can so you don't have to worry about it sounding like you. It will, because YOU did it.

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AI does some amazing things and we often feel it's saving us time.

And I'm here to tell you, in some cases, I don't think it is.

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AI artificial intelligence is a great tool.

I've seen it make some amazing images.

I've seen it do some amazing, like I'll write a blog post and say, make it better.

But there are some times when I think it actually slows us down because one of the things that happens, and I just did one last night where I let AI come up with show notes.

And this is supposed to be trying to sound like me.

And I'm here to tell you, there were at least seven words that I don't even know the meanings of.

And I would never ever say, period.

And so consequently, I have to go through and read the entire thing.

And then when I find something and I go, yeah, I'd never say that.

Or it's just blatantly wrong.

And.

And I thought about it.

So I started a clock, I use a thing called clockify.

And in the end I was like, this isn't really saving me a whole lot of time.

And the other thing is, it doesn't really sound like me.

It doesn't sound horrible, doesn't sound like it was AI but for me, AI always gives me that 10,000 foot overview.

Doesn't really give you any details, doesn't share any stories.

Doesn't it just.

It is, it's, it's a C, said the old teacher.

Right?

It's a C grade, nothing really amazing.

And so I think going forward, I'm going to start writing my own show notes because I think in the end, if I look at the time it takes me to tweak something to not make me look stupid, and I don't think it sounds like me versus just typing it out.

Because here's the thing, I have a brain, so I don't need artificial intelligence.

I actually have real intelligence.

And I've been typing since I was in the seventh grade.

Now, I'm not a whiz at that.

I do occasionally have the typo, but I'm not sure it's an efficient use of my time.

Now, there are times when I will let you, you know, it depends, as always with podcasting, but I think when it comes to My show notes, I think I'm done with that because I'm just finding that it just doesn't sound like me.

And I think one of the things that Google I know for a fact is looking for is authenticity.

And they want your expertise and they want your stories, and right now, AI doesn't give that.

And.

And rather than have me inject my stories and my expertise into this somewhat meh kind of output from AI, I'm just like.

And even if it takes longer, I think in the long run, letting you be you when it comes to show notes.

Now, I will say again, I've seen it make some amazing graphics.

I've seen it make videos.

I've seen him make all sorts of stuff.

And those are things I can't do.

So I think the lesson here is let AI do the things that you don't do well.

And for me, I've been writing since I was in the sixth grade.

And over the years, I was the editor of the student newsletter at my college.

I was writing articles, all sorts of stuff.

So I've always.

Before I was a podcaster, I was a writer.

And that is something that I don't have a problem with.

Now you might be going, dave, I hunt and peck when I type.

This is an amazing thing.

When I use AI, that's great.

And that's my point.

Let AI do the things that you can't.

And then anything you can do that way, it's you.

And I just this last night, like I said, I was working on this episode and I was like, these show notes are horrible now.

They weren't wrong.

It just did not sound like me at all.

And it wasn't the prompt.

It wasn't.

It was just like, no, this is, again, it's artificial intelligence.

And all a large language model is doing.

And that's what the.

The technology under AI is, is.

It's guessing what you want the next word to be it.

And it does a really good job at that.

But in terms of guessing the word that I would use, no, not so much.

And I realize, I understand that, hey, this is the worst it's going to get, and that's amazing.

But right now I'm like, I think I can write better show notes, and it's not going to take me a whole lot more time.

In fact, in some cases, it might actually save me some time.

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