“Should I get AI to write for me?”

In this lesson:
0:00 How to use AI for writing
0:42 AI: Creation or Curation?
1:24 AI Accuracy & Quality
5:58 How to Write the AI Prompt
10:09 Editing AI Text
15:42 Uniqueness

TRANSCRIPT:
In today's video, I want to talk to you about AI.
More specifically, I want to talk to you about AI writers, like Chad GPT, Claude, Gemini,
DeepMind, I think is the other one, Grok.
They're all kinds of different tools to help you with your writing.
Now, before we do anything, before I get into anything, I want to make sure you understand,
I by no means think that you should not use AI writers.
It's a great tool, absolutely use it, but I'm going to show you four reasons why you
still need to know how to read and write in order to properly use this tool, okay?
So we're going to start with...
Actually, before I get into the first point, let me get into something more very important
to understand.
I want to make sure you know the difference between "create" and "curate".
AI does not create anything.
It curates, it collects all kinds of data and information, all kinds of writing styles
and words and structures, it gathers them from all over the internet, brings them together
to suit your specific need based on your prompt, on what you asked it to do.
So, it's very important to remember that it curates, and you'll understand why in a moment.
So let's start with the first thing you need to be careful about, accuracy and quality.
AI still makes mistakes.
Now, it's okay for you to write an essay, to write an email, to write whatever you need
to write using the AI tool, but then you must read through what it produces, right?
The result that you get from the chat GPT or whatever, and you're going to have to look
for factual errors.
And in case if you're writing something, like, academic, you need to check all citations,
all sources of information, because there may be mistakes in it.
It happens, right?
It's not a perfect tool, so that's one thing.
AI tools can make very weak arguments.
They may sound or they may appear very strong, very well delivered, it doesn't mean that
they can't be attacked easily or counter-argued easily, right?
It's going to take information from all over the place and put it into what it thinks is
a good presentation of an argument.
But a critical reader will be able to find the chinks in the armor, as we say, the little
areas where you can easily insert a counter-argument and break apart the whole thing.
So, you need to be a good reader in order to be able to find those weak arguments or
those weak points in whatever the AI tool produces for you.
Vagueness.
Like, AI tools use a lot of vague words, and sometimes they use some vague structures because
it sounds good, because that's what they've collected by scouring through the internet,
right?
As a reader, you have to find that vagueness and tighten it up.
You need to make that something vague into something very concrete and specific in order
to make your argument stand up or make your message stand up.
It doesn't always have to be an argument.
You're not always writing essays, right?
But even if you're writing something like an email, you could have mistakes in it or
you could have something that's vague so that the person receiving it is not entirely sure
what you're trying to say.
So, specifics are up to you more than the AI tool, right?
But you have to notice that.
Repetition.
AI will repeat a lot, right?
If you give it a particular word count, if you give it a particular length, it may think
that it's answered the prompt instruction clearly, but it hasn't reached that word length,
it'll just start repeating things, right?
And a lot of the times when it curates, when it collects information from other places,
it's taking that style or that information, which may already be repetitive, and then
it's just doing the same thing, again, because it's not creating something unique. […]

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