Artificial Intelligence Is Great But...

Artificial Intelligence is changing our lives so rapidly that it can give us whiplash. ChatGPT just enabled its latest image generation and more than a million people signed up in a day.

Now I'm not a Luddite, I see the value AI can bring to society and humanity. But I also see so many business people using it verbatim and calling it a day.

This is not the way to use AI. AI should be a starting point. It should be a way to get your ideas farther into the ideation stage and even to the point where you can produce your content quicker, but still keep it human.

I use AI to get me past the blank page. I ask it for ideas on a topic. I might even ask it for a brief rundown on each, but after that, I take it from there. And you know what? My content comes out better with a little help from AI than if I just went at it on my own.

Now your mileage will vary. But learn how to write good AI prompts. It's definitely a skill. But in the long run, it'll help you.

Just, whatever you do, don't just use the output verbatim. It helps no one.

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Even with a ban possibly happening, TikTok is continuing to improve its platform.

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As much as I like Bluesky. The fact that it's not decentralized... yet... or will ever be, has me concerned. See my post on my personal site. But the fact that some are trying to use the AT Protocol to make more cool social web things is great.

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This is terrible. AI companies need to pay for their usage.

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This is a great piece from Dr. Pete over at Moz about Google and all the algorithm changes over the last 11 years.

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This is sad news. Automattic has had a big lay-off round. For all the blustering and bullsh!t from Matt Mullenweg, this is a sad outcome from his idiocy. I used to admire the guy. I've met him a few times and he seemed nice enough. Man, he's a real post-economic (insert your adjective for Matt). 💩

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Aleyda Solis is one of the smartest SEOs that I know. This is a great primer the differences between SEO and Generative Engine Optimization (aka AI search).

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Mysterious... probably Google doing something with AI. Are any of you noticing this?

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