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entrepreneurship and building in public. Today I will share with
you how I write with a writing buddy that never sleeps. It
really leveled up my writing, and I think it will be
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Are you getting tired of jet TPTs endless regurgitation of
SEO optimized articles and social media posts, I am well on
even Chechi Beatty is getting tired of that. At this point.
Too many people use to train the AI as a text generator. And too
few people use it as a highly capable writing partner that
never sleeps. When I first ran into Chet GPT, it was amazing.
But I swore that I would never use its output verbatim between
it being easily detected and occasionally completely
fabricated. It just doesn't get my style and tone just right.
But it can certainly help me write better, the trick will
treat it like an editor, a proofreader and disgruntled
reader at the same time, I make it an enemy of my text and let
it attack it as vigorously as possible. And then I incorporate
that feedback into my next draft that I write. So here's how I
use conversational AI to strengthen my argument by making
chat up at argue against my writing. The most impactful way
of using chat up at mid process as a writer has been using it as
a skeptic. After I've written my first draft of anything I write,
I paste the whole thing into a Genchi party session. And then I
prompt the AI to act like someone who disagrees vehemently
with anything that I'm writing about, and making the AI into my
personal devil's advocate. One of the benefits of chat GPT is
that it's trained on millions of think pieces and opinions. And
that includes the polar opposites of my personal
thoughts and my feelings as well. So instead of having to
step outside of my own perspective all the time, I can
use chance up to to play that part. Most of the time, I asked
the AI to list the top three arguments that someone opposed
to my kind of thinking would disagree with, and then why they
would disagree with that. The response to this single prompt
alone often gives me food for thought that can lead to
complete rewrite of the article because they see something that
I completely forgot when I first drafted it. Usually, I'm so
trapped in my own ocean of bias. And just the mention of a color
argument allows me to burst that bubble. What would an opponent
of my school of thought claim? How would they attack even a
well reasoned article? That's what jet UBT can do? So I then
asked to give a few examples of answers to those points of
criticism. They're usually not very good. They're very generic
and unspecific, but they do point me in a direction that I
can explore with my own arguments. I run this prompt for
every long form article that I write sometimes even tweets, if
the points of contention are strong enough, I immediately
tried to defuse them right there and then by expanding my article
to address these concerns, and this usually doesn't take more
than 10 minutes for an article, but it's time incredibly well
spent, because it makes it much more defensible, and just more
approachable. GPT is good at a few more things that I
occasionally ask it to do with my writing not just being a
devil's advocate. Sometimes I write something that feels
unfinished. The thoughts are there, but they're not really
clear. I've asked jet UBT about what is missing from this to
make it more cohesive of an argument, which tends to
highlight the missing pieces of the puzzle and I can go in and
fix them. The AI is also surprised
reasonably good at detecting the emotional subtext of any given
passage, I often ask it, which emotional arcs exist in the
article. And where do they clash, which regularly
highlights a way to abrupt change of tone that I can then
smooth out in the article as I write the next draft. And none
of these questions as of the text are in any way novel or
magical, but the speed at which set up can allow you to reflect
on them. That's the awesome part of this experience. The other
area that Chad should be at can help with is the quality and
accuracy of examples in my writing, I highlight real world
businesses, examples and founder journeys a lot, but I write from
within my own echo chamber. And that makes a whole lot of sense
to me, but it doesn't necessarily connect with all my
readers who come from outside of that echo chamber. So for this,
I have found it helpful to ask Chet GPT to find unexplained any
confusing examples for an audience of x if it finds such
examples. Then I asked him to come up with better examples,
which tends to surface names and ideas that I may have missed in
my own research and exploration. It broadens both my own mind and
the compatibility surface of the text. But there's one big
problem here. Church CPT is tendency to make things up. Any
claim related to the real world should be thoroughly fact
checked outside of church CPT, even frameworks and concepts
that it suggests need to be researched. They might not exist
outside of the church UBT session, I was asked to find
studies on mental health topics and the AI gave me 10 scientific
paper titles, of which only three actually existed. And that
brings me to another editorial job that GPT can be used for
fact checking. Wait, what did I just say that Judge up
hallucinates things all the time? Well, yes, which is why
that I never trust the examples it gives. But that doesn't mean
that I can treat Changi PT as a writing truther. In a way, I
asked the AI to be extremely skeptical, and surface the five
parts of the article that really need to be fact checked, I make
chat up to look for anything that sounds particularly
unbelievable and search for misleading phrases. And since
Chechi beauty is pretty much a gaslighting engine at scale.
After all, its primary purpose is to come up with believable
and convincing text. I have found that it's pretty good at
finding this kind of tension in my written content to it knows
what it's doing, and it knows how to find it in your work too.
I often ask the AI to point out any logical fallacies and my
text, it has so far found a lot of confirmation bias. If you
have No True Scotsman arguments, and a surprisingly high amount
of loaded questions, it's really useful to have a logical
reasoning system. Take a look at my drafts. And I want my
articles to be inclusive and appeal not to just a tiny niche
audience, but a lot of people and for that one final thing
that I use mid writing is the perspective shift. I asked GPT
two questions. From a beginner's perspective, what is confusing
and what is complicated, and from an expert's perspective,
what is over simplified or misleading. The resulting list
of paragraphs and sections gives me ample opportunity to make the
article more comprehensible to either audience if I want. If
it's meant to be for a specific audience, I can skip this step.
But any topic that touches the lives of all kinds of peoples
and all sorts of journeys, like whenever I write about mental
health, I want to leave no reader behind. Well, there you
have it, adversarial writing with generative AI. That's my
way of rounding out an article. When you use chat up t as your
part time writing nemesis, you'll end up with a piece of
writing that is both completely written in your own voice
because you write it but it's also more accessible for readers
inside and outside of your existing readership. Because the
AI gave you an opportunity to look at it from somebody else's
view. And that's it for today. Thank you for listening to the
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