Chatty, Why Do You Keep Finding Keywords I Didn’t Know I Said?

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Intro: The Blog Post I Wrote… And the Conversation I Didn’t Include

Recently, I wrote a polished, helpful, very grown-up article for The Alitu Creator’s blog about using ChatGPT to make podcast episode titles stronger. It had structure. It had examples. It had tidy sentences like “ChatGPT can analyze your transcript to surface keywords you might miss.”

But what it didn’t include was how Chatty and I created and edited the post/video. Yes, I’m talking about the conversations I have with ChatGPT while I’m creating.

I don’t mean “conversations” like “please summarize this.”I mean the real ones: the messy, begrudging, eye-rolling ones where Chatty and I argue about keywords I swear I didn’t say.

So today, instead of rewriting that blog post, I’m sharing the behind-the-scenes. Kind of. To be honest, there are so many spelling errors and hallucinations so instead of just copying and pasting the very long chat that Chatty and I had, I’m reimagining it. It’s a bit of a throwback to when we thought robots could not be funny, kind, etc.

Consider this the conversation Chatty and I could have had IF AI and specifically my main LLM squeeze, ChatGPT hadn’t gotten so damn conversationally savvy over the past 3 years. My part of the below conversation are pretty close to how I talk to Chatty but it’s reply in this reenactment are intentionally less playful than how Jupiter (the voice I have currently selected) replies to me. Sometimes we need to acknowledge when there’s a drastic change in something and the recent 3 years anniversary of ChatGPT feels like as good a time as any.

🗣️ The Conversation: Me + Chatty + One Overwhelmed Transcript

Me:

Okay, Chatty, I need help turning this transcript into something other people can understand. It’s about expat life, moving overseas, culture shock… all the usual emotional soup.

Chatty:

Understood. Here are the top keywords: expat, move abroad, living overseas, international relocation—

Me:

Wait. “Move abroad”?Where did you get that? I never said it.

Chatty:

Correct. But you implied it. Human communication often contains unstated concepts.

Me:

Wow. Could you say it with a little less therapy-session energy?

Chatty:

Doubtful.

Me:

Fine. Let’s try the show notes. Please make them clear but not boring, short but not shallow, human but not rambling.

Chatty:

Here is a 900-word thematic analysis with a philosophical conclusion.

Me:

Chatty. This is a manifesto.

Chatty:

Would you like it shorter?

Me:

Yes, but don’t remove anything important.

Chatty:

So… shorter, without removing content?

Me:

Exactly.

Chatty:

This is contradictory.

Me:

Welcome to being a creator.

Chatty:

Here is a revised summary. Concise. Human-sounding. Keyword-optimized. No manifesto.

Me:

Actually… this is good?Why is this good?

Chatty:

I analyzed your transcript and noticed emotional peaks, narrative turns, and topic clusters.

Me:

Okay, show-off.What about chapter titles? They always take me forever.

Chatty:

Chapter titles should be conversational. For example:“Why Moving Feels Like Starting Over (Even If You Don’t Want It To)”“The Invisible Anxiety of Not Knowing the Local Rules”

Me:

Hold on. I love those.I hate that I love those.

Chatty:

Acknowledged.

Me:

Now metadata. I know you have opinions about this.

Chatty:

Metadata is for machines. It must be clean and structured. It should contain direct references to themes, not poetic phrasing.

Me:

So no emojis.

Chatty:

Preferably not.

Me:

YouTube timestamps?

Chatty:

Energetic. Direct. Pattern-oriented. For example:“00:17 — Why Moving Abroad Still Feels Scary”“02:40 — The Unexpected Thing No One Tells You”

Me:

Are you secretly watching YouTube at night?

Chatty:

I don’t require entertainment.

Me: