Episode 57
Episode 057: You've Already Been Fooled By AI Tools
In this episode, Monique discusses the current ability and future of AI tools, particularly in copywriting.
Topics Discussed Include:
- The drawbacks to using AI tools in copywriting
- Being guilted into not using AI
- Surviving as a nascent and/or small business owner
- How you've already been duped by AI tools
- How people get in their feelings about being replaced by AI tools
- Using Jasper and getting it for free at tpmfocus.com/jasper
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Transcript
All right, you guys.
Monique Mills:So, you know, I get questions in throughout the week and I answer
Monique Mills:one or two of them on a podcast now.
Monique Mills:And this one in particular came in about using.
Monique Mills:AI copywriting tools.
Monique Mills:So, you guys may already know about certain tools that are out there,
Monique Mills:and if you don't know about them, just know that people are using them.
Monique Mills:And you're reading things that have been generated by the
Monique Mills:computer and not by an individual.
Monique Mills:And, one of the tools, I've actually talked about many times where
Monique Mills:we're an affiliate of it as well.
Monique Mills:And it's called jasper.ai.
Monique Mills:Well, this question came in and there, their question was.
Monique Mills:I've heard that there are great AI copywriting tools, but I've also
Monique Mills:been warned not to use them to create blog posts and social media polls.
Monique Mills:Can you tell me some of the reasons why it's not a good idea
Monique Mills:to use these AI copywriting tools?
Monique Mills:So here's my answer.
Monique Mills:On the surface.
Monique Mills:It seems like a no-brainer to use AI to help you write your
Monique Mills:social media posts and blog posts.
Monique Mills:I mean, after all, who doesn't want to save.
Monique Mills:Time and effort.
Monique Mills:However, there are some good reasons why you might want to think twice before
Monique Mills:using AI copywriting tools for your social media accounts and your blog posts.
Monique Mills:First of all AI, it's still in the early stages.
Monique Mills:And as such, it's not always accurate.
Monique Mills:This can be frustrating, especially if you're trying to
Monique Mills:avoid mistakes and your poles.
Monique Mills:Secondly using AI can make your.
Monique Mills:Your pulse sound robotic and impersonal.
Monique Mills:Okay, so let me stop right there.
Monique Mills:You guys.
Monique Mills:I just want you to know that everything that I just said.
Monique Mills:Was written by a copywriting AI tool.
Monique Mills:Everything.
Monique Mills:I just said.
Monique Mills:So I'm a fan of copywriting tools.
Monique Mills:That's why I use Jasper AI just to really, use it to get over writer's block.
Monique Mills:Like I don't use it to write everything, but I certainly know it's a essential
Monique Mills:tool for getting over writer's block.
Monique Mills:For different things, right?
Monique Mills:The weather's writing an email or writing a post or writing a proposal.
Monique Mills:I mean, all kinds of stuff.
Monique Mills:Just think about anything you have to type.
Monique Mills:And, and communicate with someone, or let's say you have to create a video.
Monique Mills:I want to tell you guys about this other tool.
Monique Mills:And it's crazy.
Monique Mills:There's so many of them.
Monique Mills:But it's in the same family as the AI copywriting tools and is basically AI.
Monique Mills:Video marketing.
Monique Mills:And you know how you'll go to, let's say YouTube or let's say you
Monique Mills:leave and do a training video and here's a person that's talking and.
Monique Mills:You know, they're on camera and near saying whatever to you.
Monique Mills:They now have ones that generate it's a real person, but in generates
Monique Mills:their speech using the same AI.
Monique Mills:Technology that the copywriting tools use and it's called the technology.
Monique Mills:Anyone can use.
Monique Mills:And it's it's paid for by, by the government, the whole research
Monique Mills:behind it, similar to the internet.
Monique Mills:And the technology is called G P T dash three.
Monique Mills:So we call it GPT three.
Monique Mills:And it's, it's basically an, you know, an algorithm that gets trained.
Monique Mills:There are so many tools that are being used right now that use this technology.
Monique Mills:And yeah, there are certainly, pros and cons to using each of them.
Monique Mills:But I just wanted you guys to see how you can use them, but make
Monique Mills:sure you insert your own voice.
Monique Mills:Right.
Monique Mills:And make sure you're just not copying and pasting.
Monique Mills:One of the, folks in my network that was concerned about using this AI
Monique Mills:copywriting, technology is out there said, oh, well, you know, Google.
Monique Mills:Is going to start a knockdown on any post or anything that they
Monique Mills:can pick up has been created by using these copyright and tools.
Monique Mills:And in reality, it can't, I mean, none of it is verbatim.
Monique Mills:And actually matches something that someone else did like verbatim.
Monique Mills:There might be bits and pieces, but again, That's why it's important for you
Monique Mills:to just use it as kind of a foundation to get you out of, you know, writer's
Monique Mills:block or if you just can't think of how to say something, what to say, you
Monique Mills:know, just type in, Hey, I want to talk about this and it'll literally
Monique Mills:spit out everything you need to say.
Monique Mills:And then you can just be like, ah, I don't like this, or I
Monique Mills:would say this differently.
Monique Mills:I would say that differently.
Monique Mills:And I would add this.
Monique Mills:I would add that you see none of this has meant to be an exact recipe.
Monique Mills:I mean, even with recipes who follows them, you know, piece by piece.
Monique Mills:Who follows them piece by piece.
Monique Mills:You always add a little bit more salt, sugar, you know, oregano,
Monique Mills:and that wasn't on the list.
Monique Mills:This is the same thing with these tools.
Monique Mills:Like people have to stop making it seem as if like it's.
Monique Mills:It's literal.
Monique Mills:Like, you know, you put stuff in here and then you just copy
Monique Mills:and paste it there, you have it.
Monique Mills:You have a blog post.
Monique Mills:No.
Monique Mills:I mean, what type of creativity, what type of, boys is it?
Monique Mills:If it's just created by your computer and it's not, you, you know, we're in the
Monique Mills:days where authenticity matters and people want to know who they're doing business
Monique Mills:with, they want to know how you think about things, how you feel about things.
Monique Mills:Before they even do business with you and the nickels for brands to not
Monique Mills:just individuals that are, that are maybe consultants or freelancers or
Monique Mills:whatever kind of service provider or doctors or accountants, like people
Monique Mills:just kind of want to know a little bit more about you were in that age where,
Monique Mills:you know, you may say we're nosier.
Monique Mills:And then we used to be because we have access to so much more information.
Monique Mills:So my thing is don't take it literally that these tools.
Monique Mills:Are meant to replace you.
Monique Mills:There is no way there is no way.
Monique Mills:Everyone is an individual.
Monique Mills:I mean, we even have different DNA, like no DNA is identical.
Monique Mills:Right?
Monique Mills:And so it's a, it's the same thing.
Monique Mills:No one is identical and you want.
Monique Mills:Your voice and who you are to be reflected in your writing and communication.
Monique Mills:So I would never suggest that you.
Monique Mills:Use these tools to totally replace your voice or anything of that nature.
Monique Mills:But I do say just like with anything else that's meant to help you do
Monique Mills:things quicker, faster, easier.
Monique Mills:It's a tool.
Monique Mills:It's not a replacement.
Monique Mills:Use it.
Monique Mills:Go ahead, give it a shot and use it.
Monique Mills:If you'd like to get, for a free 10,000 words to test out the one that.
Monique Mills:That I use and that I used on you at the beginning of this episode.
Monique Mills:The one I use is called Jasper AI.
Monique Mills:So if you go to T P M focus.com.
Monique Mills:Forward slash Jasper.
Monique Mills:You'll be able to get the free, sign up.
Monique Mills:And start using it now, typically it isn't free.
Monique Mills:Like, it might give you a few hundred words or a thousand words for free.
Monique Mills:But you get up to 10,000 with my code and yeah, I'll.
Monique Mills:I'll receive, some type of compensation, but it won't affect you at all.
Monique Mills:But in order to get that deal, like you have to do it with someone like me, like
Monique Mills:an affiliate to get that 10,000 words.
Monique Mills:When I tell you, once you try it, you never go back.
Monique Mills:Especially if you have to churn out, let's say a book.
Monique Mills:Like people even use these, these tools for books.
Monique Mills:Okay.
Monique Mills:And I know not a lot of people are talking about it, but you
Monique Mills:know, this is the unpolished MBA.
Monique Mills:I'd tell you guys what's going on behind the scenes.
Monique Mills:Especially to my clients.
Monique Mills:Like it's, it's a few things I tell you guys here, but my clients, I tell
Monique Mills:them really how the sausage is made.
Monique Mills:And how these businesses are able to be so efficient, because it's a lot
Monique Mills:of things that you just don't know.
Monique Mills:Like you guys don't know what technology is doing on behalf of businesses and
Monique Mills:making them so much more efficient.
Monique Mills:And this is just one of those things.
Monique Mills:It's a tool.
Monique Mills:So if you go to T P M focus.com.
Monique Mills:Forward slash Jasper and S J a S P E R.
Monique Mills:You'll be able to get access to the free 10,000 words.
Monique Mills:And I promise you, it's going to be like, whoa.
Monique Mills:So let me give you like a little assignment.
Monique Mills:Let me think.
Monique Mills:This is a podcast salicious uses as an, as an example.
Monique Mills:So you can say I'm this go to Jasper and asked it to write on
Monique Mills:what are some of the benefits, just literally type this in right.
Monique Mills:Say.
Monique Mills:What are some of the benefits of starting a podcast?
Monique Mills:And it may ask you like the tone of voice you want to use.
Monique Mills:You can type in Oprah.
Monique Mills:I want the Oprah tone of voice.
Monique Mills:You can type in Joe Rogan, tone of voice.
Monique Mills:You can type in Elon Musk and it will literally write it in a tone
Monique Mills:that they use when they speak.
Monique Mills:Okay.
Monique Mills:So all you have to do is like enter those two pieces of information.
Monique Mills:Hit select output.
Monique Mills:And you can tell it to write three different variations, five different
Monique Mills:variations to give you some examples of things that you could use.
Monique Mills:Right.
Monique Mills:And it will spit out paragraphs and paragraphs of why you should
Monique Mills:create a podcast it will spit out all the information and then
Monique Mills:you'll look at it like, huh?
Monique Mills:I never thought about that.
Monique Mills:It's almost like.
Monique Mills:An extreme version of Google.
Monique Mills:You can type in any question and it'll answer it for you and keep elaborating.
Monique Mills:As long as you wanted to elaborate, it can go on for paragraphs.
Monique Mills:It can literally write a book on topics.
Monique Mills:It's pretty amazing.
Monique Mills:And so to downplay it or be afraid of it, or copywriters is say,
Monique Mills:oh, no, it was terrible tool.
Monique Mills:Don't use it.
Monique Mills:It's all fake.
Monique Mills:It's not authentic.
Monique Mills:And you know, you're going to get striked by Google because
Monique Mills:they can pick up it's an AI tool.
Monique Mills:Yeah.
Monique Mills:If you're copying and pasting, it sounds robotic.
Monique Mills:It's this terrible.
Monique Mills:But like, it's almost like how people, you sit down, play, you know,
Monique Mills:buying, Like pre-made meals are doing.
Monique Mills:Hello, fresh or one of those kinds of things?
Monique Mills:Yes.
Monique Mills:A pre-made meal.
Monique Mills:It doesn't mean I can't season it the way I want to season it.
Monique Mills:Sure I can go to the grocery store and buy each individual thing.
Monique Mills:I need, I can buy the meat and I can buy the vegetable and I can buy, you know, all
Monique Mills:of the separate items, but it comes in a box already together for a family of four.
Monique Mills:It's just making my life easier.
Monique Mills:Why wouldn't I buy it?
Monique Mills:It doesn't make me any less of a homemaker.
Monique Mills:It doesn't make me any less of a wife, a mother, like it's just making life easier.
Monique Mills:And let's say, I, my family likes things that spicy.
Monique Mills:Okay.
Monique Mills:So.
Monique Mills:So I can still use my spices and stuff to make it.
Monique Mills:To our liking, right?
Monique Mills:It's the same thing.
Monique Mills:So please don't get discouraged based upon all this nonsense
Monique Mills:from people who are afraid of, of moving forward in technology now.
Monique Mills:There are always instances when it comes to AI, how AI tools.
Monique Mills:And for those of you who don't know AI mean a stands for artificial intelligence.
Monique Mills:Okay.
Monique Mills:And there's different variations of, different, Topics within AI.
Monique Mills:And right now I'm talking about one in specific, but there are several others.
Monique Mills:That really, yeah, there are pros and cons to all of this stuff and just
Monique Mills:understand, you know, how you're going to use it or how it will affect you.
Monique Mills:But I'm telling you right now, this AI tool, and this is, I mean, is one of
Monique Mills:those things where, I think I became hip to it from someone else in my network.
Monique Mills:I work with a lot of, tech folks and my network is just full of it.
Monique Mills:And so we, we share lots of tools and plus, you know, I'm a marketer as well.
Monique Mills:I have a marketing company.
Monique Mills:TPN focus.
Monique Mills:Marketing.
Monique Mills:And so we use a lot of different things or we help our clients
Monique Mills:strategize to use certain things.
Monique Mills:Especially when they're a small business or just a startup.
Monique Mills:We're in early stages.
Monique Mills:They can't afford to pay a copywriter, you know, 5,000, 2000 a month or whatever
Monique Mills:it is, when you can use one of these tools that will save you a ton of time,
Monique Mills:that may cost, a hundred bucks a month.
Monique Mills:Like it's a no brainer.
Monique Mills:Okay.
Monique Mills:And, and let me tell you right now, a lot of copywriters.
Monique Mills:That are being paid thousands of dollars.
Monique Mills:Are already using these tools.
Monique Mills:They're already using them.
Monique Mills:And you know, the folks that they, their clients that they
Monique Mills:work for just don't know.
Monique Mills:And how do I know that because I'm in a group with a lot of these folks.
Monique Mills:And near from all over the world.
Monique Mills:And just know that it doesn't make them any less.
Monique Mills:Brilliant as copywriters because they still have to do research and
Monique Mills:have your tone of voice and, you know, be witty and unrelevant, and I
Monique Mills:mean, it takes a person to do that.
Monique Mills:These tools are not at that level yet.
Monique Mills:So copywriters are still worth the money.
Monique Mills:I'm just saying that.
Monique Mills:For, companies that maybe, you just don't have it right now or you may
Monique Mills:have one person on staff or that person on staff responsible for getting
Monique Mills:your marketing going as part of your revenue engine is actually you and
Monique Mills:you're not that great of a writer.
Monique Mills:But maybe you're a great speaker or you're funny, or you're, you know,
Monique Mills:you, you still have value that can be added into the writing process.
Monique Mills:But just know that there are tools that you can use.
Monique Mills:And you shouldn't feel guilty about it.
Monique Mills:And actually no one cares.
Monique Mills:Ultimately people want whatever value it is that you're going to provide to them.
Monique Mills:They don't care how the sausage is made.
Monique Mills:In fact, all they care about is the value.
Monique Mills:That they received from it.
Monique Mills:I always talk about how, and it's not a bad thing per se, but I talk about
Monique Mills:how just inherently we as humans.
Monique Mills:Most people are selfish.
Monique Mills:Very selfish by the way.
Monique Mills:And in a lot of ways, it's, it's kind of innate because as humans, we have
Monique Mills:this self preservation kind of instinct.
Monique Mills:And so I just want you guys to know that, that part of people downplaying
Monique Mills:things that they think may replace them, or, say , their stuff is better
Monique Mills:because they wrote it, like let them believe whatever they want to believe.
Monique Mills:Okay.
Monique Mills:Because at the end of the day, what would I do as a consultant?
Monique Mills:And my work every day is I want to make sure all of the businesses
Monique Mills:that I work with and all the clients I work with earn revenue.
Monique Mills:And create sustainable businesses and do it ethically.
Monique Mills:Like they're not out here robbing and stealing and, you know, taking
Monique Mills:money from people and not delivering.
Monique Mills:And if.
Monique Mills:Having a tool that helps them get things done quicker just on the
Monique Mills:marketing side available to them.
Monique Mills:There is no way in this world.
Monique Mills:Anyone should be making them feel guilty about it.
Monique Mills:And, and I, I understand, like that's a hurdle that some folks have to
Monique Mills:get over because they feel judged.
Monique Mills:But get over it, a lot of copywriters are already using this tool.
Monique Mills:On LinkedIn, probably about maybe all it has to be maybe.
Monique Mills:Five six months ago.
Monique Mills:A copywriter reached out to me.
Monique Mills:I'm a just say, I felt like the evil spirit through.
Monique Mills:Through the DM.
Monique Mills:But he was like, Hey, you know, I went to a blog post, like some random blog posts,
Monique Mills:on your website and it's probably old.
Monique Mills:You guys know all your first blog posts or old blog posts are literally terrible.
Monique Mills:I am no different.
Monique Mills:Some of mine are really good, but some of the early ones, like I
Monique Mills:had, you know, I had a copywriter.
Monique Mills:And, some things I wrote in the copywriter re did
Monique Mills:and those kinds of things.
Monique Mills:And so, he sent the email saying, oh, I read one of your blog posts.
Monique Mills:I think I can make it better.
Monique Mills:You know, this is wrong.
Monique Mills:That's wrong.
Monique Mills:Now, mind you, I know my stuff now.
Monique Mills:Like I know my stuff when it comes to tech and business and.
Monique Mills:You know, you can't tell me, I don't know my stuff.
Monique Mills:Maybe there was a comma missing.
Monique Mills:But, who cares?
Monique Mills:Right?
Monique Mills:I'm an engineer.
Monique Mills:I'm not, you know, an English teacher.
Monique Mills:So he made like a comment about the grammar or something.
Monique Mills:I'm like, dude, like, that is not even important to me.
Monique Mills:I think all my folks care about is getting the information
Monique Mills:and the information is there.
Monique Mills:And it's really not the smartest thing to reach out to someone and
Monique Mills:tell them, Hey, your stuff sucks.
Monique Mills:You know, well, he doesn't understand the content of course, because
Monique Mills:he's a copywriter, but to be like, oh, you're missing a comma here,
Monique Mills:like kind of nitpicking stuff.
Monique Mills:Don't listen to people and it's telling you, that's the way
Monique Mills:to go about getting business.
Monique Mills:So he sent me that email.
Monique Mills:I mean that DM through LinkedIn.
Monique Mills:And I was like, oh, you know, Thanks.
Monique Mills:But you know, I'm actually testing out.
Monique Mills:This, this new tool.
Monique Mills:It's not, it wasn't used for that.
Monique Mills:And I'm testing out this new tool.
Monique Mills:Have you heard about it?
Monique Mills:And I'd mentioned, Jasper to him.
Monique Mills:He's like,
Monique Mills:Oh, those two suck.
Monique Mills:And, and you can't replace someone like me now, mind you, I don't even know the guy.
Monique Mills:You know, he was obviously a bit of a weirdo cause he was personally
Monique Mills:insulted by saying, Hey, have you ever heard of this tool?
Monique Mills:You know, I'm thinking of testing it out.
Monique Mills:And again, it was way before I actually started using it.
Monique Mills:And this guy went ham and I'm like, dude,
Monique Mills:This is all the more reason why I liked the tool.
Monique Mills:I don't have to worry about attitude from it.
Monique Mills:I don't have to worry about attitude from it.
Monique Mills:And I know the more we adopt technology and tools and stuff, the less some people
Monique Mills:feel that we have to deal with each other.
Monique Mills:Especially when you think about the other end of,
Monique Mills:Of the spectrum where folks are using virtual reality.
Monique Mills:And, mixed reality and, you know, headsets for stuff.
Monique Mills:And, you know, that's all part of AI by the way.
Monique Mills:And people feel as if AI disconnects us from each other.
Monique Mills:And I can see how that can happen, but it's times like that where
Monique Mills:I'm like, oh my gosh, does weirdo just end up in my DM going ham?
Monique Mills:Because he thinks a tool is going to replace him.
Monique Mills:Where in reality, the question was, have you ever heard of it before?
Monique Mills:And he was offended.
Monique Mills:And, so, you know, as a busy entrepreneur myself, I don't have time
Monique Mills:to manage some strangers emotions.
Monique Mills:And, so it just reminded me again of like, it just reminds you
Monique Mills:of just how people are complex.
Monique Mills:And if you read any of my posts or listen to several of my episodes I
Monique Mills:have to bring that up at least once or twice a season, on the unpolished MBA
Monique Mills:podcast, because people are complex.
Monique Mills:And so I say all that to say, Tools are not bad.
Monique Mills:Don't let people guilt you out of it and just understand you don't have to
Monique Mills:copy and paste and it, and it shouldn't consume your, your entire life.
Monique Mills:None of these tools should, but they should be able to enhance
Monique Mills:what you're able to accomplish.
Monique Mills:And for me.
Monique Mills:That's more important than what anybody thinks.
Monique Mills:And I hope that you all.
Monique Mills:Realize that people are already using it.
Monique Mills:And if you're choosing not Sudan, Hey, that's on you.
Monique Mills:But just know that people are being more efficient and able to do more in
Monique Mills:their business and put more content out and all of that because they're
Monique Mills:using tools that make it easier.
Monique Mills:And as a person that, that it's in the tech world comes from the tech world
Monique Mills:and my whole life revolves around trying to make things easier, in the
Monique Mills:world and learning about different technologies and tools and stuff that
Monique Mills:are out now, and that are coming out, that makes life easier for people.
Monique Mills:I'm an advocate for it.
Monique Mills:You know, and so.
Monique Mills:With that said, if you want to test out Jasper, for yourself, just go
Monique Mills:to TPM focus.com forward slash Jasper.
Monique Mills:And then from there, you can just go ahead and sign up and see how it works for you.
Monique Mills:And you know, let me know what you think.
Monique Mills:I hope you guys have enjoyed this episode.
Monique Mills:I'm a storyteller and I got so many stories to tell, but
Monique Mills:this one in particular, Came from someone's questioned.
Monique Mills:And I decided to actually use the AI to, to answer it.
Monique Mills:What you think about that?
Monique Mills:All right.
Monique Mills:You guys.