I Was Wrong, Kyle Was Right – AI!

As a long-standing member of Wealthy Affiliate, I have seen many changes, but probably one of the biggest changes for me has been the introduction of artificial intelligence. I was certainly very sceptical when I first heard that we had access to AI, which I believe was around January 2023. If it hadn’t of been for the wealthy affiliate training on AI, I would probably not be using it at all. However, there was some excellent training on Wealthy Affiliate, which helped me to understand the subject much better.

Some Of My Reservations About AI

My biggest reservation is when people use AI to write the content and barely change it. Most contents on Wealthy Affiliate should be about our Internet marketing journey, whether it’s a win or a struggle. AI cannot really comprehend our own personal experience. I appreciate that in time, if we use it enough, it does get to know more about us. However, I still believe that to make good solid and genuine content, it has to come from the heart and be real.

Unfortunately, I see far too many Wealthy Affiliate posts and blog posts that are clearly AI and lack that real personal touch and have a total soulless and false appearance.

I tend to agree with Dale’s post from a couple of weeks ago. The title of the post there is, “If People Wanted AI Content, They Would Just Go To ChatGPT.” You can see Dale’s post here.

Where Kyle Was Right

I have to be honest that Kyle has been very patient with me, when I have had several gripes about AI. But at the same time, he has always encouraged me and reminded me that it’s the way to keep ahead of our game. I was also reminded that it’s a powerful assistant that can help speed up many processes. Kyle has also said that AI is continually going to improve and grow, which has been 100% right.

What Am I Using AI For?

I’m using AI for a number of tasks, in the early days I was using AI to transcribe my YouTube videos properly and to punctuate them and remove any ums and ahs, etc. In general, it does a great job and is much quicker than doing the job in Microsoft Word.

AI is great for brainstorming, blog titles, YouTube video titles, the list goes on!

Just recently, I have discovered that ChatGPT can create great YouTube thumbnails with unique pictures. For a long time I have been using Canva for this task, but ChatGPT seems to be doing a good job.

There are many more tasks that I am using AI to help and assist me with.

The Problem Isn’t AI – It’s Lazy Use Of AI

One of the things that put me off AI in the early days was the fact that I thought it was going to take away people’s uniqueness. I really like the fact that everyone is different and has something different to bring to the table. Remember that AI is a helper or an assistant, don’t let it take away that wonderful uniqueness that you have been created with!

AI content that has no personal touch, it is just bland, boring and tasteless, you may think you are writing lots of content, but it will never rank highly in the search engines.

If you want to read fluff and something that was created in seconds with literally no thought or human input, then carry on using AI content.

I have seen blog posts written with literally pure AI content, with AI comments and then responses from the author with an AI comment! That’s not clever and it shows big time!

Make Use Of Your Personal AI Assistant

I have had many reservations about AI, but I have to put my hands up and say that Kyle was right!😁 I haven’t experimented very much with different types of AI, but I do use the paid version of ChatGPT. I’ve also played around with “Grok”, but I haven’t really used it for business as yet.

If you are using AI for content, make sure and spend time and make it your own. One of the reasons I don’t use AI for content is the fact that I know my niche reasonably well, so don’t particularly feel the need for it. I have tested AI content out with my niche, but due to it being slightly technical and maybe not that popular, it really does write ridiculously bad content and very inaccurate. Maybe this will improve in the future, in fact I’m sure it will.

Final Thoughts

It would be interesting to hear how other readers are using AI, and are you using ChatGPT or other AI tools.

Let me know your thoughts on AI and what’s your biggest gripe with AI?

Have you been anti-AI, like I have been? When I say anti-AI, it’s more that I don’t want people to lose their uniqueness and be lazy.

What’s your favourite task for your AI tool?

Incidentally, this blog post is 100% human content!

Thank you for reading.

Roy