Staying Authentic in the Age of AI

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Discover the future of creation at the intersection of artificial intelligence and human ingenuity! Our latest podcast episode delves into the exciting realm of AI-enhanced art, music, and design, showcasing its transformative potential for creators worldwide. I'll also share my hands-on impressions of the Rode NT1 Signature Series microphone, discussing both its sleek design and its performance in my recording setup, offering insights that could shape your next audio investment.

This journey isn't just about the tools, but also the people behind them. We raise a toast to Bailey, our superstar moderator, who recently blew our minds with an AI-generated voice clone in his heartfelt message. As we unravel the authenticity of the AI craze, we also hint at a mysterious new microphone with advanced capabilities that's under wraps. Plus, I recount my own transformative experience with the Quest 3 headset, reinforcing how personal encounters with tech can redefine our daily lives and creative endeavors.

As we wrap up, our conversation turns to the ethics of AI in content creation, especially for YouTube creators. I discuss the limitations of AI-generated scripts, underscoring the irreplaceable value of personal touch and authenticity that resonates with viewers. We also look at how AI can be a partner in the creative process, assisting with content validation and idea generation, rather than a replacement. Join us as we explore these nuances and celebrate AI's supportive role in augmenting our content creation journey, all while maintaining the heartfelt connection that's at the core of every great story.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:32):
Hello and welcome.
My name is Tom and this is theEnthusiasm Project, season 12,
episode 3, and today we'retaking a deep dive into the
world of AI-driven creativity.
Now, if you're anything like me, you've probably marveled at
the incredible capabilities ofartificial intelligence, but
have you ever stopped to thinkhow AI is revolutionizing the

(00:55):
way we create?
That's right.
We're talking about AI toolsthat are pushing the boundaries
of what's possible in the worldof art, design and music.
From generating mind-bendingvisuals to composing symphonies
that stir the soul.
These creative AI tools are notjust changing the game, they're
rewriting the rulebook entirely.
So buckle up, because in thisepisode, we're going to explore

(01:18):
some of the most cutting-edge AIcreations out there, and, who
knows, you might just beinspired to unleash your own
AI-powered creativity.
Stay tuned, because theEnthusiasm Project starts now.
Music fades out.
If you couldn't tell, I did notwrite that intro and no human

(01:39):
wrote that intro, because thatwas an AI intro, and AI I'm not
kidding when I say that this iswhat you're listening to now is
not an AI intro.
So that's what we're going totalk about today is this world
of AI tools that exists forcreators specifically.
Now we're going to look at thisthrough the creator lens.
There's a bunch of lenses, youcould look through it, but we're

(02:02):
going to focus this on as acreator for this video podcast
streaming whatever in this worldof where AI tools currently are
, knowing that they willcontinue to change and grow at a
crazy pace, let's look at themthe good, the bad, the ugly and
maybe even some positives aboutthem.

(02:22):
That's going to be the meat andpotatoes of today's episode, but
of course, there's a few thingsto do before we dive into all
that.
I've got a couple messages andwe've got some gear to talk
about, gear I am using.
Actually, I'm using a totallynew setup right now.
I didn't really mean to do that, but that's what's happening,
but kind of kind of a new setup.

(02:43):
So the microphone I'm talkinginto is the Rode NT1 Signature
Series, which you might besaying.
That's not a new microphone.
It's been out for like sixmonths and it's a pretty basic
modification on a microphonethat had already been around for
a lot longer before then.
Yes, you're correct, but butthis one's blue.

(03:05):
So, even though this is anaudio only version of this
podcast, you're listening to ablue microphone, but not a blue
branded microphone, just amicrophone that is the color
blue.
When Rode announced the NT1Signature Series last year, they
teased that they were going tocome out in different colors and
then it just sort of took awhile and I had signed up on

(03:27):
their website like notify mewhen new colors available, and
finally I got an email a coupleof weeks ago that was like oh,
in stock now, and so of course Igot the blue one.
There's some really really coolcolors out there.
It's like green, purple I don'tknow if there's a red, of
course there's black, I think,like an orange or something
Really cool looking colors forthe microphone, and something
that was strange about it isthat they the colors aren't as

(03:52):
saturated as Rode normally goes.
When Rode does things in color,they tend to be very, very
bright, vivid, saturated.
If you look at the Rode cables,the buttons on the Rodecaster
Pro, the, the windscreen that Ihave for my PodMic, that's
bright blue that they'll becoming out with for sales soon
Everything's really bright.
And these are a little more onthe pastel side of things, which

(04:13):
I was initially kind of bummedout about because I wanted that
super bright color, but inperson they look fantastic and
yeah, I know, I know I'mspending a lot of time talking
about how a microphone looks andnot how it sounds.
But they look fantastic and Irealized once I had the blue one
here and then someone also sentme a photo of the green one in
real life.
It's currently kind of hard tofind pictures of these in real

(04:35):
life.
You can only find like themarketing images, which is gives
you kind of a skewed thing.
So in real life the colors arevery pretty and I realized that
the blue is very similar toDaphne blue, which is a Fender
guitar color, and the green isvery similar to surf green,
which is also a Fender guitarcolor, and those just happened
to be my two favorite colors.

(04:55):
So now I'm very tempted to getthe green one as well, just for
funsies.
But yeah, so that's.
That's what you're listening tome on right now.
The cool thing about thismicrophone the NT1 has always
been a great microphone and theI guess it's the fourth gen that
had been available up untillast year Super solid microphone
, one of my all time favorites.
And then road came out with thefifth gen, which was also just

(05:17):
as good, except it had USBfunctionality, which was cool
because USB, because it had 32bit float audio when you were
doing USB, which is awesome.
But it was also kind of a letdown because it had nothing else
in terms of USB, specificallyno headphone monitoring.
So it was it's like impossibleto monitor your audio with no

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latency on that microphonebecause the only way to monitor
it is through, you know, yourcomputer or whatever you have it
connected to.
Anytime you run a USBmicrophone into a computer and
then you try to monitor itthrough that, you introduce
latency which is unpleasant anddistracting.
So there's no like headphonejack or anything on the
microphone, which is unfortunate.

(05:59):
So very cool USB features butnot super usable.
It's pal usable without USB.
And somehow they did.
And then they came out with thesignature series, which was a
much more direct update to theNT1.
Basically it's the fifthgeneration without that USB
functionality and for almost$100 cheaper.
So it's $160 microphone and youknow I think it's a great

(06:22):
sounding microphone.
I've always loved the NT1family of microphones and that
$160 also gets you a really nicesuper solid shock mount and a
pop filter.
Oh, and I think it actuallycomes with a cable too.
It comes with like a whole kitfor $160, which is awesome.
Jump into the world of condensermicrophones.
It's great for spoken word,great for music, great for all

(06:43):
that kind of stuff, and sothat's the microphone I'm using
right now.
I do have it on the Elgato lowprofile boom arm the white one
that I made a video aboutrecently.
So that's why I said it's sortof a new setup, like I've had an
NT1.
I've even had a signatureseries, but I haven't had this
blue one.
I've had an Elgato low profilearm, but I haven't had this
white one, which is the.

(07:05):
Has all the updates that they'vedone over the past few years,
basically like better tensionknobs, much stronger magnets,
few more like holes for routingor cables and stuff.
So it's just more enjoyable andbetter to use boom arm than it
used to be previously.
And that is all running intothe Mackey DLZ Creator XS, which

(07:29):
is excessively small.
It's.
You know I did a whole video onthis.
It's basically Mackey's versionof the Rodecaster Duo, a dual
input, much smaller version oftheir larger DLZ Creator.
But, just like the RodecasterDuo, has all of the processing
power and all the internals ofthe Big Rodecaster Pro in the
smaller package.
Same here this is all of theprocessing power and

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capabilities of the Big DLZCreator, just in a smaller
package, and it happens to bethe exact same price $.500 as
the Rodecaster Duo.
I really like this.
If you watch my video about it,you'll know how much I liked it
.
I love the size of the formfactor.
I love the functionality.
The Big DLZ Creator is supercool, but it is just like way
too big for me and there arethings about it that are clunky,

(08:14):
like the.
I mean, if you watch my review,it's the whole thing that the
Rodecaster Pro is so is justmuch more usable.
You know in a lot of ways thanthe Mackeys are just more user
friendly.
But the Mackeys really let youdive under the hood.
So right now, for example, letme see if I can dive into the
channel.
Here I just have the condenserpreset turned on, but then you

(08:36):
can go into the EQ, and I have.
I adjusted my EQ a little bit.
Maybe I could turn all that off.
So here, if I turn off the EQon this microphone, now this is
what that sounds like Basically,just more out of the box.
And now here's my EQ added in.
I also have some compressionand noise gate and de-sing.
If I turn all of that off, thisis now just the dry sound of

(08:57):
the microphone and I will turnall of that processing back on
and I think this sounds reallygood, at least in my headphones
as I'm monitoring this.
But and the DLZ both of themwill set your gain automatically
, which is super nice.
So you just push a button, talkin the microphone for a few
seconds, it sets your gainperfectly, and then when I go
over here, as if you can see,when I go to my home page and

(09:21):
turn everything up to the unitylevel, I'm getting a good signal
and I can just monitor thatsuper easily.
So that's what I'm using rightnow.
That's what you're listening tome on and that's what you'll be
hearing.
You know some of the messagesand things running through as
well as we go through thisepisode.
So that's the gear segment.
Moving on to some listenermessages, I have two returning

(09:45):
long time listener messages.
It wouldn't be a season of thisepisode without messages from
these guys.
So we're gonna start off with amessage from Gil.
This is a super interestingquestion that I've never been
asked before and I don't know ifI've ever actually considered
before.
So take it away, gil.

Speaker 2 (10:03):
Hey Tom, this is Gil, I hope all this well.
Quick question what rituals doyou invoke to have the best
podcast or YouTube video For me?
I like to clear and clean up mystudio space, or any space that
I'm in, in order to allowcreativity to flow.

(10:25):
I learned this from my secondgrade art teacher, miss Orlando,
and that idea has stuck with meever since and she pretty much
was saying you cannot allowcreativity to walk freely or
come into your space if it'sclutter or stuff all over the
place Like it's just gonna bebumping and you're just gonna be

(10:47):
distracted.
And for me it works.
So I'm wondering what tacticsor summoning rituals do you
invoke to summon the bestYouTube video or podcast?
All right, thank you so muchAll right.

Speaker 1 (11:03):
Thanks, gil.
That was an awesome questionand I do have to say I know you
live in Florida.
Now I don't know if you grew upin Florida, but if you did and
your teacher's name was MissOrlando, that's hilarious.
So I'm sure if that was thecase, she's probably very tired
of hearing about that, but it'snew to me, so it's funny to me.
Still, this is a really coolquestion what rituals do you

(11:24):
have to make the best thingpossible?
And, thinking about it, I don'thave any conscious ones, which
is funny because, as I've talkedabout many times learning to
play hockey over the past year,those kinds of rituals and
pregame things and pre-practicethings are really important and
I've tried to develop a warm-uproutine and a thing that gets

(11:45):
you into the proper head spaceso you can perform both
physically and mentally at yourbest.
But I don't think I haveanything that conscious for my
actual job that I've been doingfor seven years at this point.
But, thinking about it, I thinkthere are sort of unconscious,
or you know, things that I dowithout being aware, and a big

(12:08):
one, like you said, keepingthings clean and organized, I
think is huge Right now.
I'll be honest with you.
I was working on a thing beforerecording this and my desk is
very cluttered and it'sstressing me out.
I don't like it.
So if this were a nice clean,organized and I could sit down
here and just not have to dealwith that mess, I would feel

(12:28):
significantly better.
So I think that is a good one.
That's something.
Essentially, the thing that I'verealized that I try to do is
clear my mind of everythingthat's not related to what it is
that I'm making.
And so, for example, on a daythat I'm gonna make a video, I
usually like to set upeverything the day before.
So not just you know outliningand scripting and stuff, but

(12:50):
setting up cameras, setting upany props or you know things
that I might need for the video,testing everything.
So that way, the next day whenit's time to make the video, all
I think about is what I'm doingon camera and not like, well, I
need to run this cable overhere and connect this.
Like I don't wanna deal withany of those kinds of things on
the day that I have to like bein front of the camera doing a

(13:12):
thing, and that really does helpquite a bit.
And then also, like I actuallyjust mentioned, like we talked
about in the last episode,scripting and outlining, making
sure that I know you know whatI'm doing, what I'm talking
about.
Sometimes it's more formalized,sometimes it's less formalized,
but not just totally winging it.
Actually having a structure andan outline and a purpose is a

(13:34):
very important thing, and once Ido that, it really puts my mind
at ease and then lets me focuson the fun of making whatever it
is I'm making.
So I guess that's kind of mythe biggest ritual that I have.
So appreciate the message, gil,as always.
And next message this is alittle bit different.
This is from Bailey, who isjust awesome.

(13:56):
So thank you for everything youdo, bailey.
He's been just such an awesomesupporter of my channel and
podcasts for many years at thispoint and is a moderator on my
channel who's put together suchawesome resources, like he went
through and essentially spreadsheeted out, spread shot out all
of like product links and videolinks.
So when there's a live streamgoing on and someone's like, hey

(14:17):
, what boom arm is that?
Or what video did you talkabout this thing?
It's like so easy to just findit, copy paste, you know, share
the links, whatever.
It's a very cool thing that Ishould have probably had the
foresight to create myself, butI didn't, and then Bailey did,
and he really bailed me out bydoing that.
So I have a message from Baileyhere.
The difference between this oneand last one is I have not heard

(14:38):
this one yet.
I told Bailey that I wouldreact to it live, so I don't
know what it is.
I don't know if it's just asimple question or what, or
something that's gonna be, likeyou know, demonetized.
I don't even know if thispodcast is monetized, it'll get
it monetized and thendemonetized.
So I don't know what we're infor here.
But let's see, take it away,bailey.

Speaker 3 (14:59):
Hey, tom, congratulations on getting to
season 12 of the enthusiasmproject.
I always love tuning in to eachepisode and hearing your
thoughts At the start of episodetwo, when you were talking
about quote unquote kids.
These days I realized how ofteneven I say that and I'm only a
teenager myself, although I doalways get told I've got a 60

(15:20):
year old soul inside.
Anyway, just wanted to check into see how you and Heather are
doing.
Can't wait to find out what themystery mic was.
Oh, and one last thing thisentire submission was recorded
using an AI clone of my voice.
How did it do, could you tell?
Thanks, tom, chat soon.

Speaker 1 (15:40):
This is the thing with Bailey Everything lines up
perfectly.
I had no idea what his messagewas going to be and it just so
happened to get thrown in the AIthing on the voice.
That is crazy.
What a perfect transition.
So, thank you.
So to talk about questions yay,thanks, bailey.

(16:01):
Appreciate you enjoyingeverything.
The mystery mic I still can'treveal it, but it is super cool.
Obviously not the one I'm usingnow, the one I used last week.
I'm gonna use it some more,definitely have some videos
about it.
The couple of times I gotmicrophones before they're
released, it's usually prettyquick, but this one is.
There's a bit of a longer timebefore the time I got it to the

(16:23):
time it's released, which isactually awesome, because that
means when it is available, I'llhave been able to have used it
for a long time, and the one Ihave is just the production
model, and it's a pretty coolmic with all the advanced
features that it has that I wastalking about last time.
But it is just an XLR mic, soit's not like there's gonna be
new firmware or anything.
It's the one that everyone elseis gonna get to.

(16:44):
So thank you for that, bailey.
Going to the AI thing, I did notknow that it was AI, but it did
sound like you were reading ascript and I was literally
thinking, okay, I guess hewanted to make sure you're an
organized person.
He wanted to make sure that heshared his thoughts and got out

(17:06):
everything that he wanted to getout.
So he must have scripted thisout and wrote it.
And then I was kind of thinking, like I did the AI intro to
this episode.
I was like I wonder if he didlike an AI script.
But the things you were sayingwent have made sense.
Like I can't imagine it AIwriting things that way.
It didn't occur to me that yourwhole voice was AI.
That is crazy.

(17:27):
I don't know what to say aboutthat.
But it is the perfect tie-in toso many of the things that
we'll be talking about in thisepisode right now.
So we can just transitionstraight over to that, because
Bailey always comes in clutchand makes everything easier all
the time.
So thanks, thanks for that.
Now here's the thing with AI.

(17:50):
So let's just jump in thereRight now.
Ai is definitely a popularbuzzword.
This is obviously all of my ownopinion and things I don't know
.
I don't have like the computerscience background to really
know where that line is, whensomething is or is not actual
artificial intelligence.
Right now I think there's a lotof things that are called AI,

(18:11):
that are just really goodprogramming or just, like you
know, an advanced softwareapplication, but it's sort of
hard to explain that and it'seasier to say AI.
It kind of reminds me of likefrom 2004 or five to like I
don't know, 2013, 14.
So many things just had alowercase I in front of them.

(18:32):
You know, like if a company wasgonna make like a I don't know
a clock radio, instead ofcalling it like clock radio they
would call it iHome or iBlank,whatever it is.
It's just lowercasei productname, even though nothing else
changed.

(18:52):
But then it just tied itself inwith things like the iPhone,
the iPad, the iMac, the iPod,all that stuff that was huge at
the time, and then the companiesfound out they could sell more
of them that way.
They could probably sell themfor a higher price just because
of that lowercasei.
I feel like AI right now is sortof similar, where there's a lot

(19:13):
of things where it's likeproduct name with AI or product
name, ai, ai, product name, andI don't know if those things
actually have it.
I feel in some cases there'snothing even close to AI, where
in other cases it's a prettyadvanced thing that's hard to
explain.
So they just say AI just tomake it, you know, just to sort

(19:36):
of set expectations for people,and then maybe in other cases
it's a genuine.
I don't know what makessomething officially an
artificial intelligence, but itgoes in that direction.
So keep that in mind.
Like I'm not a computerscientist, my knowledge in this
area is not my area of expertise.
So, you know, feel free tocorrect me when I'm wrong
anywhere.
But the things I'm looking atspecifically are creator based

(19:57):
AI tools.
Quote unquote AI tools,especially things obviously chat
, gpt, dolly that kind of stuffis huge.
Photoshop has a lot of coolstuff.
Adobe's been doing a lot of AIthings those types of tools that
we, as creators, not only caninteract with but are also, in a
lot of cases, confused andscared of because they are

(20:19):
already so powerful that they'rescary.
And this is where it's aninteresting thing.
It's probably different foreverybody.
You know, like I'd be curiousto know what someone 20 years
older than me thinks and someone20 years younger than me thinks
, because I'm right here, 38years old, still youngish, but
definitely old enough to be kindof stuck in my ways and have a

(20:42):
like this is how things used tobe and are supposed to be kind
of mentality that creeps insometimes and I don't want that
Like as I get older.
I don't want to be thecompletely stuck in my ways
person, because right now, whenit comes to AI as for an example
, there are a lot of people whofeel nervous and apprehensive

(21:02):
and unsure about it, and I'm oneof those.
But as time goes on, I feellike there's gonna be less and
less of those people, not justbecause people will change their
opinions, maybe, but becauseyou know time goes on and there
will be generations of peopleeventually that grew up not
knowing anything but havingthese tools and so they're not

(21:23):
gonna think it's weird.
So if I'm over here saying it'sweird, at a certain point it's
like I'm gonna be the weird onething.
It's weird, I guess.
So having like a healthyskepticism but realizing this
genie is not going back in thebottle unless there's you know,
I don't wanna jinx anythingknocking on wood here but unless

(21:45):
there's like a, the whole gridgoes down.
We lose the internet entirely,in which case not having access
to chat, gpt would be not thebiggest problem in the world.
But you know, barring somethingabsolutely catastrophic like
that, these tools are here andthey're just gonna stay and
they're going to continue toevolve so you can dig your heels

(22:08):
in or put your head in the sand, but I feel like in the long
term, that's just gonna put youat a disadvantage, as opposed to
learning more about them,seeing how they may or may not
work for you, but at leastunderstanding them and then
potentially finding ways to usethem, learning how to use them
responsibly kind of all thestuff I used to talk to my
students about with technologyin general prior to AI just
smartphones and the internet.

(22:29):
It's like, yeah, smartphonesare the bane of every teacher's
existence, but they're not goingaway.
So, rather than just likeletting kids be babysat by them
or trying to run a dictatorshipwhere we pretend they don't
exist, let's teach people how touse them responsibly and
effectively.
And I feel like AI tools arevery similar to that.

(22:51):
Like, anytime there has been atechnological advancement,
whether it's the wheel orartificial intelligence, if it
can be used for bad things,humans will use it for bad
things, and I think that's justa given and with something like
this, if you're a creator person, it's really scary because it

(23:12):
does kind of feel like you havea target on your back more than
you did in the past and likethese things are potentially
more impactful to what you do ina potentially negative way and
something that can take away thevalue of what you do or take
away a job, take away anaudience, whatever it is.
So I fully understand thetrepidation and the worry with

(23:35):
these tools, but there's also alot of really cool stuff that
they can do as well, and that'swhat I've been trying to really
open up my mind to over the pastfew months and I feel like I've
now got a pretty good handle onhow I feel about these current
tools and that's really what Iwanna share from the creator
perspective because, again,they're not going anywhere so

(23:57):
you can kick and scream all wewant, but maybe exploring them
and even if I've explored them abit and found things I like
about them and things I don'tlike but even if you explore it,
you find things you don't likeat least you have that kind of
perspective.
Heather and I were talking on arecent episode of the Couple's
Table about virtual reality andlike headsets and things, which

(24:18):
is something I had absolutely nointerest in at all until I
started playing hockey, andsometimes you can't go to the
rink every day or for whateverreason you can't play.
Getting practice is a littledifficult.
But there's a virtual realityapp called Sense Arena which is
like an official NHL trainingapp and you can practice.

(24:39):
It's really great for goaliesthat you can have all kinds of
drills, practice things.
You can get your skill setdiagnosed and then run
diagnostics on your specificstrengths and weaknesses and
have a practice program createdspecifically for you.
You can have someone take thesame shot a million times at you
and you can practice it.

(25:00):
That way you can take shotsfrom like real pro shooters and
things.
It's pretty cool and I reallywanted to try it out.
So I got a Quest 3 headset and aSense Arena subscription, kind
of thinking, okay, vr issomething I'm not interested in
at all and there's a chance Imight just return this because I

(25:20):
might not be into it, but if Ilike it it'll be a cool tool to
have for hockey and for practice.
And I got it and literally assoon as I turned on the headset,
before even installing SenseArena.
Just turning on the headset, itwas like mixed reality, like
you can see the room that you'rein, and then a little screen
popped up that was like enterthe wifi password.

(25:42):
And I was.
I was verbally going like wow,this is amazing.
And Heather was like what areyou doing?
It's like I'm entering the wifipassword and it was probably
the most fun I've ever hadentering a password into
something.
And I didn't expect, when I putthe headset on, it turned on
for the first time, to have anaudible reaction that I couldn't

(26:02):
control like a non, it justhappened and that was pretty
crazy.
And then, obviously, like SenseArena was super cool, but after
a couple days I was like oh,what else does this do?
Oh, there's a YouTube app Turnsout watching YouTube videos not
even VR YouTube videos, butjust YouTube videos and this big
, what feels like a big theater,is really, really cool.

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And then there's like Heatherand I take body combat classes
at the gym, which is sort oflike this shadow boxing class I
guess you could call it.
They have a really cool bodycombat app where it's like you
know, you're punching, you're inthis crazy virtual environment,
you're punching targets andthey explode and there's a
leaderboard with other peoplethat you're in the class with at
the same time.

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So there's this competitivepart to it.
There's all this stuff.
That's really fun and I feellike I get it now.
My initial feeling was like I'mgonna try this out and if you
had to ask me to bet, I wouldbet that I wouldn't like it and
I would end up returning it.
But it turns out I actuallyliked it.
It's almost like way back whenI got my first Apple Watch,

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which was like right after theycame out.
I had a Fitbit back in the dayand I really liked it because I
liked tracking my activity andstuff and the Fitbit I had was
super, super basic.
But if I was getting a phonecall, it would tell me a little
thing, would pop up on the verybasic LED display or LCD display

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, not the.
It wasn't a screen, it was justlike an old school alarm clock
looking display.
It would tell me like who wascalling or let me know that I
got a text message, but itwouldn't show me the text
message and I was surprised athow helpful that was, because
there were so many times whereI'd be like up on a ladder
working on something.
I'd hear my phone ringing, Iwould look at the Fitbit and I

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could tell that it was like aspam call or something I didn't
need to even worry about.
It was really, really helpful.
And that's when I thought, likeyou know, might be worth trying
this Apple Watch because it'sall of those things done better.
And it was sort of the samething.
I bought the Apple Watchexpecting to return it, and I
did return it to get a moreexpensive one, because I bought

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like the cheapest, most basicone, was shocked at how much I
liked it and then wanted toupgrade to the stainless steel
one because it has the sapphirescreen, which is just harder to
scratch and mess up and kind ofdon't have to think about screen
protectors.
And now that was, I don't knowearly 2016,.
So it's over eight years latergot my third Apple Watch here.

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Basically every day for eightyears I've now had it on my
wrist because I like it so much,even though I didn't expect to.
Vr is kind of the same thing.
Went into it thinking it's notgonna be something that I love
or am that interested in.
Turns out I really, really likeit and I get it.
That's kind of the big thing isfeeling like I understand the

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excitement and the hype for itnow, where it felt like one of
those things like NFTs, crypto,vrs, like it's all the same
weird Silicon Valley bro stuffthat I'm just not interested in
and I was wrong.
And VR kicks butt, it's notsomething I would wanna wear in
the real world and it's notsomething that I want to.

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Even hanging out at home withHeather like oh, I'm gonna put
on my headset and go into my ownreality over here, but at
certain times it's one of thecoolest things I could be doing
and I love it and it's awesomeand it's kind of cool to at
least expose yourself to thosesorts of things, even if you
find out that you don't likethem.
Like if I had tried it and notliked it and returned it, at

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least I would then have my ownopinion about it, rather than
like you know well, I sawsomebody said in a video this or
whatever, I would have my ownthoughts based on my own actual
experience, and I think that'sreally important and that's when
it comes to all these differentAI tools, it's kind of the same
thing.
I feel like it's important tohave your own experience and
stuff like that and they can beused for bad.

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So from the creator perspectivenot even getting into, like you
know, students using them forplagiarism or anything like that
but from a creator perspectiveyou could I mean, even with the
free option like chat GPT thefree version you can do a lot.
But if you spend like 20 bucksa month, even just for one month
, and you get access to Dollyand stuff which is generative

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imagery, and then you also getchat GPT for like the most
updated version, you couldliterally say you know, can you
create a title, thumbnail andscript for an eight to 10 minute
YouTube video about the RodeNT1 Signature series?
You could even say in the styleof, you know, tom Buck, or in

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the style of Gerald Undone orwhatever, and it will do it.
I don't know.
Actually, I'm gonna try topause this recording and do that
real quick.
Alrighty, so that was also myfirst time using the record
pause function on the Creator XS, so hopefully that sounded okay
.
That took about a minute Isreally the only time I took

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there and okay, okay, this isone of the times I wish I was
doing a video podcast, so youcan see here I asked Chat to do
exactly what I told you and youcreate a thumbnail, title and
script for an 8-10 minuteYouTube review of the Rode NT1
microphone.
And it gave me a description forthe thumbnail.
The thumbnail will feature aclose-up of the microphone set

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against the blurred backgroundof a cozy personal recording
studio.
The microphone is in sharpfocus, showcasing its sleek
design and build quality.
Subtle lighting will highlightthe microphone's texture and
curves, making it stand out.
A small eye-catching textoverlay in the corner will say
crystal clear question mark topique curiosity about the
microphone's sound quality.
Actually not a terrible thingto do.

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And then I asked it can youcreate that image?
And it created a thumbnail thatlooks like that, although it is
a microphone.
That says Rode NT1, but it isnot a Rode NT1.
It's like generic condensermicrophone.
But it gives me an idea,honestly, of the tone, the vibe.
I could take that and try torecreate it myself and I don't
hate that idea.

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Even crystal clear questionmark in the thumbnail not
terrible.
The title it gave me is RodeNT1 Review of the Ultimate
Studio Mic question mark.
Nothing wrong with that title.
And the script is broken downinto segments, so it is
literally time-stamped.
Intro 0 to 30 seconds openingshot fade in from black music

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starts.
Quick montage of the microphoneat different settings.
Host on camera.
Hey everyone, welcome back tothe channel.
Today we're diving into theworld of studio sound with an
in-depth look at the Rode NT1.
Is it really the UltimateStudio Mic?
Let's find out.
Then there's a couple minuteson design and build quality,
where it specifically says cutto close ups.
Here's a voiceover script whenthe host is on camera.

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Off camera.
There's a one minute section,or minute 30, second section, of
features and specifications.
There's a sound quality sectionpros and cons.
What does it say?
Down to the pros and cons,peace and lack of versatility
for non-studio use as cons.
Price is not really a con,though.

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Conclusion and final thoughts.
So is the Rode NT1 the UltimateStudio Mic?
For those looking forexceptional sound quality and
build in a studio setting, it'sdefinitely a top contender.
Encourage viewers to sharetheir thoughts in the comments,
like subscribe for more reviews.
So that's not even a script,that's a note to me.
And then there we go and chatsays this script offers a

(33:44):
comprehensive review with themicrophone, highlighting its
strengths and potentialdrawbacks, to give viewers a
well rounded understanding.
Now let's create the thumbnailto match the concept.
Oh, I interrupted it while Iwas creating the thumbnail by
asking it to create a thumbnail,so that took me a minute right
to create that.
Well, not to create it, but tohave something else create it.
That's not a video I would make.

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I've done NT1 reviews.
There's elements of that I like.
I don't hate the title.
I don't even hate the conceptfor the thumbnail.
I don't even hate the structure.
Actually, I think the structuremakes sense.
I mean, this is how I usuallystructure my videos.
Like design and build quality,sound quality, pros and cons,
conclusions, features and specs.
Like those segments and theamount of time we spend on each

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one of them actually make sense.
The content of those is prettythin.
I feel like if I made thisvideo just using this script, it
would definitely come across aslike do you really know
anything about this microphone?
Are you just saying generalthings that could apply to
almost any microphone?
And there's some stuff that isI would call it wrong, like
where price being a drawback ofthe NT1.

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Absolutely not In the world ofmicrophone.
Like, objectively, it is agreat priced microphone.
So there's those kinds ofthings.
And then it's a little thin onthings like oh, it's not great
in a non-studio setting.
What does that mean?
Like?
Are we going outside?
Why is it not great?
Like, because it's a condenserversus a dynamic.
Should we talk about condenserversus dynamic?

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And obviously there's nopersonality in this Like?
There's no.
There's no jokes, there's noword play.
There's no you know, anecdotesabout personal experience or
anything, but it's an outline.
Now I have seen people do thisand then just make this video.
Just okay, cool, I'm going toload that into the prompter,

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make it.
You could.
You essentially have a shotlist here, but I'm guessing I
could also have chat.
Just generate a shot list forthis script.
And then I know, okay, you know, get these handful of shots
that show, you know, themicrophones connector, show this
, that, the other thing, andedit it together and I'm done
and there's a video.
You know how easy that would becompared to my current video or

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micro view process.
It'd be so much easier.
But the video, I mean I would.
I would be embarrassed topublish a video like that, but
some people aren't and somepeople will.
Just okay, cool, I can crankout four of these a day.
You know every.
I'm going to upload constantlyand grow my channel, even though
I sort of feel like whether ornot people recognize that it's

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AI generated.
I feel like there's somethingthere that would stop people
from connecting it because itdoes not have that personal
touch.
It does not.
It does not sound likesomething that's coming from
somebody who has real lifeexperience, you know, at
whatever age, but justexperience of living in the
world.
I don't know if this will getbetter in a year or whatever,

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but that is a thing that makesme sad is when I've seen people
just copy and paste chat scriptsinto videos and think that it's
almost like this easy buttoncheat mode that they've
uncovered to like unlock YouTubepotential.
Now they can just keep makingeverything.
And then it's like I don't knowthat it freaks me out because
it's like who are you evenmaking this for?

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Because I can't imagine humanbeings wanting to listen to that
.
And just last week I loggedinto LinkedIn for the first time
in a long time, like a coupleof years and they've added a few
things, one of them being AIgenerated like quick replies to
things, which is not new, likelots of platforms have that.
Even YouTube has it.
You know Gmail's had thingslike that for at least auto

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generated replies for years.
But LinkedIn kind of went a stepfurther and totally closed the
loop in a way, because, like, ifsomebody posts something, you
can do a like generated AI quote, unquote quick reply to it.
But then the person who postedit, if they see that they can do
an AI generated quick reply toyours, and what are we doing?

(37:50):
Like, what are we doing at thatpoint?
And that's that's the thingthat almost freaks me out when I
think of people just sort oflike copying this AI script,
making that video, posting it,and then it's.
It's almost like okay, I don'tknow, some view bot is just
going to watch it and like leavea fake spam comment and like

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Then then it's just that deadinternet thing.
I don't know if you've heardabout the dead internet theory.
I forget the exact percentage,but it's something.
It's at least 50, but it mightbe as high as like there's an
estimate that like 80% orsomething along those lines of
all activity on the internet isnonhuman spots and AI and
scripts and whatever it might be, and so most of the internet is
Dead is the term, because it'sjust these artificial things

(38:35):
like interacting with each otherand there's nothing actually
going on there.
That is scary.
I don't want to live in thatworld.
I don't want to create thingsthat encourage that, but that
would be.
I think that would be anirresponsible use of this.
And so Is there a good use ofthis?
Absolutely, I think there is,and I've tried to find ways to
incorporate stuff like this intoInto my own workflow.

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And when it comes to scriptingand outlining, I do not use chat
to script and outline I youcould probably tell my videos,
but one thing I have done in thepast is I've almost used it as
a check in a weird way.
Especially, there are a couplevideos I made for clients over
the past year when they wantsomething like.

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One video I did for a clientwas how to get started with
podcasting on my channel.
I would make that video for myaudience, which I kind of know
who they are, and most of themhave some level of experience
with audio video production oreven if they don't, they're
totally willing to put in thework to learn more about it.
This clients audience with likeit's almost like people who

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need to make a podcast but arenot audio video production
people, which is a thing thathappens in the world.
Now you could find yourselflike working at a company and
suddenly it's like, oh, we gotto do a podcast.
I have to produce a podcast.
I don't know how to do any ofthis stuff.
It is like a video for thatkind of person getting started
and so I Wrote it.
So basically it needed to be avery broad general outline of

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the process of starting andproducing a podcast, and I put
together my outline and myscript for that, which I liked
and I was happy with.
But then I went over to chatand asked it like you know, can
you generate a script for avideo?
For that?
That video I didn't use any ofchat, but I wanted to see how it
would structure it because Idid kind of think that, based on
the info it had access to, itwould create something that was

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Appealing to like the broadestaudience possible.
And it turned out that myoutline this Does structure of
my outline matched what chat didfor the most part In terms of
just the order that I wentthrough everything, which was
kind of cool, because to me itwas like, okay, I feel a little
more certain that the way I putthis together is the best way to

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do it for this audience.
And Then you know, and then Imade the video and it turned out
to be one of the.
It turned out to be a verysuccessful video for that client
, which is cool.
So I didn't use AI to createthe video, but I used it to sort
of Like double-check that I wason the right path, doing
something that I was a littlebit unsure of and and that I

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think is really helpful.
A way that I've used it alsofor my channel Does have to do
with titles.
I kind of like this title wroteNT won the ultimate studio mic.
I Wouldn't want to generate atitle.
I wouldn't want to copy andpaste an AI title, even if it's
a good one, because I wouldworry that it just it.
It would lose my voice in someway.

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It's not me thinking of theidea, but when you're trying to
distill a complex concept Into atitle, you know like you make a
video, you really like thevideo, but it's not something
simple, like I shouldn't saysimple.
But you know you can do thoselike mr B style videos where
it's like I ate the same mealfor a hundred days straight.

(41:56):
Okay, that's a pretty easytitle because it's like the
concept is so clear, the titleis so clear.
But when you're doing somethinglike you know, a Firewire video
transfer versus Analog videotransfer like what's the
difference and how do you do it,and all that kind of stuff like
how do you distill that intosomething simple and interesting

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, that's where you canpotentially go into, you know,
one of these AI tools, ask itthose questions and Get some
ideas.
Not necessarily that you'll useany of those ideas, but you
might.
It might spark something inyour brain like, oh, that's a
cool approach.
I'm gonna change it and, youknow, I'm gonna revise my idea

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with that, like I that structurein mind or whatever.
That's been helpful for me tokind of get the gears turning a
little bit and things like that.
So it's like I wouldn't use itTo generate content I actually
use and create, but to get theball rolling, to kind of get the
hamster running on the wheel alittle bit.
It is a really, really valuabletool and something I did

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recently.
Heather and I talked all aboutthis on a recent episode of the
couples table as well, if youwant to actually see the
examples.
But I was working on a videoabout firewire image transfer
because I did a video about theCanon XL one a number of years
or not a number of years agolast year and that video.
I loved that video and I wantedto do.

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A bunch of people in that videoin the comments said that they
were like Disappointed that Ididn't use firewire to import
the footage because it wouldhave looked so much better and
they remembered the XL one beingsuch a higher quality camera
than what they were seeing in myvideo.
I Was a little dubious on this,but I didn't know how to import
firewire at the time andfortunately I had some people

(43:41):
like reach out and tell meexactly what I needed to do and
what different adapters I needed.
Again, it's a little bitcomplicated.
So I wanted to make a follow-upvideo that not only did show
those firewire examples which isthe highest quality you can
import the footage but also thenExplained exactly how to do it
and what you need.
So that way somebody's notstuck in my shoes.

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We're like I kind of want to dothis but I don't know where to
begin.
So I'm just gonna put it offfor three years and I think it's
a cool, helpful video, but it'snot the most exciting topic on
the surface, so Figuring outlike the thumbnail, for that was
a little bit tricky, becauseit's one of those things where
it's like I, if it's a thumbnailfor the road NT1.

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Yeah, you take a cool picture ofthe microphone awesome.
In this case it's like datatransfer.
So I was like, okay, there's acamera to compute.
I don't know what do I do, whatI do.
So I asked chat like hey, whatare some thumbnail ideas for
importing footage of yourfirewire?
And it gave me a couple thingsthat and like these really
weird-looking AI cameras thatlike they were like digital

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cameras with Half a film reel ontop.
They're really weird, lookingkind of cool, really
weird-looking, you know, andhave that AI art look to it.
So I would never just take oneof those thumbnails and upload
it.
No, but what it did was it kindof gave me like one of them had
a layout.
It was like the camera and acable and the computer and it
was really simple and I liked.

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I liked just the framing of it.
I was like, okay, I could setup my camera and my computer in
this way to sort of like Createa frame like this and then take
a photo and work with it thatway.
And then the other example, Ididn't like as much but the, I
guess, because I said firewire,the cable in the example was
like bright orange, like neonglowing, lava orange.

(45:26):
I was like, oh, I guess itliterally thought like a wire of
fire or something.
But I was like, oh, that's acool idea actually, because the
cable is kind of the mostimportant part here.
So you know, if I I went intoprocreate and then did like the
you know the light pen and thelight brush to kind of like add
a neon glow, and then I went inPhotoshop and added in some
flames to it, so it's like afire wire and it's like, you

(45:50):
know, it's probably the most funslash, clear way I could
communicate that concept and itwas.
You know, if you look side byside my actual thumbnail Doesn't
?
It does not look like a copypaste of the AI generated
thumbnail, but it you could see.
Oh, like you could see that itwas inspired by that, you know,

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and that's that's a cool thing.
And then a thing that I've beenusing to another tool oh, my
gosh, adobe.
As much as I hate yourlicensing and subscription
services, adobe has some amazingAI tools.
Not last season, but the onebefore on the help desk episode.
Gil had sent in a thing that apodcast he was recording had
some messed up audio and I ranit through Adobe's enhanced

(46:34):
speech AI podcast thing, whichis still.
It's included if you have anAdobe account, but I think you
get a couple hours for free.
It's pretty phenomenal when itcomes to like audio repair and
voice repair.
It's not.
You know, it can't take theworst audio in the world and
make it something someone wouldwant to listen to for an hour,
but it can definitely save yourbutt in a few cases and it saved

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mine.
It took, it saved mine a fewtimes, not just improving audio,
but there was one time I did avideo last year it was.
I think it was a studio tourvideo or something like that.
It was a video where I wasessentially walking around with
With my camera and had the roadmic on it.
The road mic was facingbackwards towards me so that way

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I could just you know my voiceover was recording, and I've
done that many times.
It sounds great, it works great, except when you don't plug the
microphone into the camera,then it doesn't sound so good,
and that's kind of what happened.
So I ended up Unknowinglyrecording audio with just the
microphones built or the camerasbuilt-in microphone.
And not only that, but thecameras mic is pointed towards

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the front and I was behind thecamera and I spent so much time
recording.
That was like.
And there were things thathappened that like.
It's not that I couldn'tre-record them like.
I couldn't recreate it wouldfeel forced and fake.
And so I ran it through Adobe'senhanced thing and the audio
sounded awesome like it almostsounded too good.
I actually had to mix in someof the bad audio with it to sort

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of let it like Breathe a littlebit or feel like it had room
space, but it completely savedthe day.
That video was totally usable.
The audio was a non-issue likeit.
It got.
The audio sounded great.
Nobody talked about the audio,the video just went out.
We talked about the subject,that what the video was of, and
not a production issue with thevideo.

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So things like that.
It's an absolute lifesaver.
And then a photoshop hasgenerative fill, which, if you
use photoshop, it's just soawesome.
It's something that Initially Ilooked at it as like this is a
way to do things in photoshopthat I could do myself, but
instead of spending 30 or 45minutes doing it I can spend 20

(48:45):
seconds and Photoshop will do itfor me.
Specifically, what I use it alot for is in thumbnail images,
just sort of like extendingbackgrounds and foregrounds.
So I have a little like Likebackdrop shooting space for
products and things in my studio, but it's pretty small and so,

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depending on what I'm doing likewhen I did this thumbnail right
here for the the XL one and thefirewire transfer, the camera
and the computer, those werekind of big and so to fit them
all in the frame when I couldget the blue background entirely
behind them, you were seeingthe edges of the background,
kind of the edge of like thetable that they were on, and it

(49:28):
it looked a little janky.
So then I can go into photoshop, sort of select these edges in
these areas and it would just itwould not only extend like I
had the cameras on a blackreflective surface and not only
like extended that out andcovered up the just the under
the open production thing thatyou could kind of see under it
that I didn't want to show.
It extended that blackreflective surface out and

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Generated reflections that lookreally good.
I was like, wow, okay, that'snot something I even know that I
could actually do in Photoshop,or if I did, it would take me a
really long time, probablywouldn't look as good, and I
don't know that it wouldactually be worth it.
But I could do it here in 30seconds.
And you know, and that kind ofthing is hugely helpful and it

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makes my life and my workflow somuch easier and so that I mean
that's a good example of a videohas a lot of AI tools in it.
Like I'm using AI tools on thethumbnail, not to just not to
actually make the thumbnail, butto even come up with the idea.
I did the title thing of likeTrying to figure out how to

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approach the title.
So even though the title is mytitle, that I came up with it,
you know, I used AI examples toget my brain going to come up
with my own Title for that thecontent of the video.
I think it would have been waytoo confusing to even ask AI, so
I didn't do that.
But that's that kind of thing,like that sort of workflow.
It's.
It's a hugely helpful tool thatI wouldn't want to To not have

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access to and that's.
You know, that's pretty simplejust for me as a creator, and
obviously there's more advancedtools and other things you could
do, but I love that and I thinkyou know Even the example I
gave of like you could just takethe script, use that script and
make that video.
Even in that Example you wouldstill need to film and edit
things.
So there's like a there's somecalories that need to be burned

(51:21):
and a skill set that needs toexist.
But, as we heard with Bailey'smessage, ai voice is getting
more convincing.
It's not perfect, but it'sgetting there imagery.
At one point in the not toodistant future, it wouldn't
surprise me if I could say likehey, can you make a YouTube
review?
Can you create a YouTube reviewof me, for me, for the you know

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, the road NT1 signature series,eight to ten minutes long,
whatever other parameters, andit will just take my voice and
my likeness and create the videoand probably Be somewhat
convincing, especially if you,you know like, if you're not
expecting it to be AI, you, it'dprobably be pretty easy to sort

(52:07):
of like Pass off as a thing.
That would be scary because Iwouldn't, because I wouldn't
want to, I that would be scaryfor a lot of reasons and that
also brings me I Don't knowhesitation when I think of the
people, the same people whowould use their audio video

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production skill sets so, youknow, produce an AI generated
script fully, if they don't evenhave to have the skill set of
filming and editing now.
They just essentially type in afew sentences, they get a video
done.
At that point they're probablynot proofing anything, not
checking anything, they're justcool.
Take this video, upload it.
Take this title title, uploadit, thumbnail done, you could.
That's where you get thosecontent farms that could just

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create, you know, many, manyvideos every day, and it's gonna
be harder and harder todistinguish real videos from
fake videos.
But I feel like that is anadvantage for the Hands-on,
handmade, old-school creator whodoes want to make their own

(53:09):
thing.
Even with imperfections, evenwith all of those things that AI
would smooth over and polishout, I feel like those things
are going to stand out so muchmore.
Even if you can't make as manyvideos because you're not an AI,
even if you know the ideasaren't as simple and clear, I
really feel like people are ableto Sniff that out and, even if

(53:32):
it's a subconscious thing, Ifeel like people will, even more
than they already do, connectwith that kind of authenticity,
because it will become much moreof a rare commodity than it is
even now.
Because now, when we talk aboutArtificiality and fakeness,
we're almost talking about, likeinfluencers who are putting on
a show or persona or facade afacade or whatever but in this

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case we're talking about, like,something that was created by a
human versus something that wasnot.
And when you get into thesefiner points, you know even
something that's like theexperience with a microphone in
a real-world setting.
It's just something that youneed a person who has been in
these experiences to share theirexperience with you, and that's

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something that can't be donewithout a living, breathing,
flesh bag human doing that foryou.
And and that's something Ithink to keep in mind like your,
your creativity, yourauthenticity, your genuine
humaneness is an asset and Issomething that is going to
become very special and veryRare and appreciated as time

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goes on, because these tools aregoing to just the amount of
artificiality and Junk that getscreated with them is going to
be massive.
But that is not the tools fault.
You know, a hammer can build, ahammer can destroy.
That's the user's fault.

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As a creator, you also have thepower to use these to help you
to to do better, to To make yourlife easier, to make your
workflow easier, so you canfocus on the parts of what you
appreciate, of what you like todo, more than the parts you
don't like to do, and I thinkthat's just important to talk
about.
Who knows where things go fromhere.

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But essentially, I would liketo encourage you in the end, if
nothing else, especially ifyou're hesitant about any kind
of AI tools, I would encourageyou not to dig your heels in the
ground or stick your head inthe sand, but to try them out
yourself, form your ownexperience and your own thoughts
and opinions about them, andthen go from there, even if you

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decide that you hate them andyou want nothing to do with them
.
I think having your ownexperience Generate that opinion
is incredibly valuable, and younever know, you could find
something that's absolutelyawesome, that you really, really
want to keep using and actuallymakes your life a little bit
better.
So that is all I got to sayabout AI today, so thank you for

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listening to that.
If you have any thoughts,because this is a topic, feel
free, tom, at enthusiasmprojectcom, or you can go to hi,
my name is Tom calm and leave avoice message, just like Gil
and Bailey do.
And thank you, gil and Bailey,for your messages.
I appreciate it.
Two episodes from now will be aQ&A episode, but, like I always
say, you don't have to waituntil then to submit questions
or thoughts or things.
It can be a dialogue all seasonlong, even if it's not a

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dedicated Q&A episode.
So thank you so much forlistening.
I appreciate it.
I hope you have a safe, happy,healthy rest of your week and I
will see if I can push the rightbutton on this new mixer and
I'll see you next time you.