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Sharyph's avatar

AI has become a race to the bottom for generic content. Using it as a creative partner that challenges your ideas is a much better approach to building something truly unique.

Great share.. I really like the prompt.

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James Presbitero's avatar

Yeah! It can be a race to the bottom, but for those who can use it properly, boy does it become a race to the top.

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Wyndo's avatar

Thanks, appreciate the comment!

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Farida Khalaf's avatar

You truly amplify AI’s capabilities to your favor, unlike many who simply let AI amplify their work.

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James Presbitero's avatar

As we all should! Using AI this way should be best practice for everyone, not just creatives and builders.

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Farida Khalaf's avatar

Can’t agree more

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@mindset&mythos's avatar

Great post. There's a number of things to consider. Maybe the primer is how much other writers/creators are asking AI to cater to whatever is trending.

If you can get past that the next hurdle is the temptation to sound like your favorite creator, or the one who appears to be commanding attention in your field.

After that comes making AI your creative partner and not a dispenser of the two I mentioned above, and that means getting comfortable with pushback.

Recently I participated in a 14-day AI sprint hosted by James that was a good head clearing exercise. I could feel the discomfort of AI asking questions that bothered me, but in going with it I gained clarity in purpose.

Another possibility is to run the same idea through a few AI systems, as Chat GPT seems to be getting a little ingratiating according to recent articles.

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Wyndo's avatar

Great point!

Yeah i think we need to be able to resist the easy way out and get more comfortable with the pushback.

It hurts our ego for sure but thats the only way to sharpen our thinking and get more clarity and generate more unique perspective from our contents.

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@mindset&mythos's avatar

Yes that's it! Humility is the way to freedom:)

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James Presbitero's avatar

Very well put!

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James Presbitero's avatar

Thanks, Jay! Yeah, that's a great way to utilize AI, by using different LLMs like what Joel Salinas wrote about a few weeks ago. AI really does introduce you to a lot of potential challenges, I suppose it makes sense given that it's also a powerful tool. There's got to be some price to pay, haha

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@mindset&mythos's avatar

Yes, and we're learning as we see the articles of people becoming a little too attached to AI 😬

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Joe Mills's avatar

While it's nice to be complimented, your recommendations totally hit the mark. As you alluded to, some of my best ideas have come from AI pushback.

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Wyndo's avatar

We grow through pushback, but it's nice once in awhile to be complimented :)

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James Presbitero's avatar

Compliments are nice but they can be dangerous. We need to be able to sort our ego from what we need accomplished when dealing with AI.

But ... yeah... sure feels nice to be told that all my ideas are great. Hah!

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