AI Skeptic Origins Hey, what’s going on? Welcome to “The Doug Show.” I’m Doug Cunnington, and today I’m gonna talk about a few things that I use AI for. A couple of them I haven’t used too often, but I believe they could be a, a reasonable task to actually use AI. I’ve been, uh, you know, back and forth on the AI bandwagon overall over the years When I first had a, you know, a quick look at some of the early content tools like, uh, Jasper or was it Jarvis? I forget what they called it. I think they changed the name. But, uh, they, they didn’t do… It was really good marketing and kind of bad execution as far as what was promised and what you actually got. Over time, it got better, but by then ChatGPT was just a better writer overall. And there are, uh, you know… I mean, I was a naysayer at the beginning, and I was calling people out for promoting, uh, you know, the tools while, you know, earning an affiliate commission and really, I mean, they weren’t delivering interesting, uh, tools. But they did get better over time. You know, when I have new information over time, I would change my mind. I’m like, “Ah, actually, like this is changing things,” and it indeed changed the content website industry. So at this point, I’m still extremely skeptical. There have been a few podcast episodes in the last little bit where I’ve been, you know, roughly critical of AI. And then I invited my friend Paul to come and talk about how he is covering AI on his YouTube channel. Super interesting. Interesting how he’s pivoted, and he’s, you know, obsessed with the topic area that he’s working with, so he enjoys it. And I chatted with, uh, you know, a couple other friends. Uh, one, one guy is actually a very high-level, successful coder, and he’s using AI very effectively, and he’s like, “It’s really good at doing X and Y, but it’s not so great at doing these other things.” And I think it’s a key distinction where, you know, my friend is using it as, um, a tool to aid what he’s already pretty good at, and it’s a very sharp contrast to using AI as a crutch. And I have– I think when I’ve tested it, it was more of a crutch usage situation, and I’ll give a specific example. Tool Not Crutch But today, I’ll hopefully give you some specific examples that actually use the faults in the way that I am using it, and I’m trying to remember, hey, like use this as a tool, don’t use it as a crutch or something to be lazy. I’m often a proponent of being lazy and, uh, being idle and, you know, just, uh A more relaxed lifestyle. And I think that’s good overall. But in these cases, it’s like, uh, y-you don’t want your brain to atrophy. You don’t want to do a worse job, um, because you’re not putting in the effort when maybe the effort really wasn’t that big of a deal, or if it helps you, you know, more in the future anyway. So that’s the key thing to remember. Use AI as a tool to augment what you can already do or what you’re already doing, and then don’t use it as a crutch. When you find yourself using it as a crutch, you know, stop and, and do something different with it. Writing Aid Workflows So number one, I have been using AI effectively, basically as an, a writing, uh, aid, more of a, an editor, more of an editor versus like a idea generation, um, tool or anything like that. And I mean, I’ve tested, um, trying to just come up with ideas, and a lot of times it’s not very good. So the best way to do this, and probably all of them, so I’m not gonna be, um, redundant and repeating, uh, this every single time. But basically, if you can come up with as many ideas or as much writing as you can before you use AI, that will hopefully preserve as many of your own original ideas as possible, and you’ll end up with better ideas. Of course, AI is very good at regurgitating what it’s already stolen, uh, from other actual creative people, or hopefully not other AI, ’cause I thin...

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