AI Is No Longer Just For Movies. Here’s How It Helps With My Daily Writing Habit
Mastering the art of capturing and keeping attention isn’t easy. The amount of noise online right now is almost nauseating.
And yet, it’s an exciting time if you want to be an influencer and spread a message. The real secret to cutting through and dialing in a strong signal among the noise is using a strategy that we call Reticular Value Positioning.
You can learn more about our RVP method here, but in a nutshell, the discipline of RVP is discovering who you’re able to serve and delivering a transformation too.
After discovering your unique RVP, you get to work with a daily writing habit joined by a prospecting mindset. It’s a strategy that hunts down interactions with a targeted Dream Client with great content that solves their problem.
You can try to construct the next viral piece of content, or you can be a human who intentionally engages with people and fills up a strong pipeline of conversations.
You may only have 500 followers, but if you’re engaging with each one of them, you have a unique edge.
Again: learn more about RVP here.
For now, I want to give you one of my biggest secrets for creating content consistently.
It’s an AI called GPT-3.
GPT-3
GPT-3 stands for Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3. The “3” means it’s the third version to be released.
Don’t worry. I won’t get too technical in this article — but what this thing does is wild. It generates text using pre-built algorithms that have already crawled the internet and have gathered information from, well, everywhere. And on everything.
It can translate languages, summarize notes, and even write poetry.
It’s the technology behind a web app that I use called ShortlyAI. It’s basically my robot writing assistant.
Artificial intelligence is no longer a thing only from the movies. It’s here and is likely not going anywhere anytime soon. But it’s not enough to have freaky tech that spits out content for you at the drop of a hat.
It still falls very short at one very critical thing:
Being human.
Humans have something that makes us unique from animals and robots. We have ideas. We can tackle problems with something they don’t have: Creativity. Machines can’t suddenly change or think outside the box of their programming (at least not yet anyway).
Here’s how this helps me as a writer. When I ask for help from my writing assistant bot, I’m simply looking for prompts. Not for him/her/it to do all the work for me.
Prompts
Having prompts is the real secret to getting going with a consistent content creation habit. The hardest part of the creative process for most people is getting out of the starting block.
It feels overwhelming to sit your butt in a chair and do a writer’s work — especially every day.
But once you get going, you are an object in motion. And as Sir Isaac Newton said, an object in motion stays in motion.
Honestly, most of this wasn’t written by the bot anyway. I use ShortlyAI as an assistant, not a replacement. My AI friend gives that needed little push, getting that initial idea moving.
But it’s not perfect. It still has a long way to go. But, on the other hand, the hard work of getting out of writer’s block and getting into a creative flow state is significantly reduced.
By the way, if you want to see this trippy AI stuff in action, check out this Facebook live that I did below…
Being a regular publisher of content online is a great habit, but it isn’t enough by itself. If you run a business and want to build a serious audience around your message, you’ll need RVP.
So watch this video and pick up my book here for a deep dive into that.
Happy bot writing!
Nate
