Yes, I use AI tools

Robots can be your friends …

I'll admit it, I'm an embracer! People, dogs, new tech I'm hugging all of it.

I first started mucking about with AI (OpenAI aka ChatGPT) in 2022 — I hadn't the first clue what I was doing or how it could help me.

So I carried on mucking about with it. Testing stuff out, binning it, trying another prompt, binning it, another prompt, editing it ... until I finally figured out some of the best ways that it could help me and my clients with their content ideation and social media marketing.

Since 2023 I’ve been a card-carrying, Claude (by Anthropic) fangirl. I dip my toes into Gemini and Co-Pilot from time to time, but Claude knows me and how I work best.

AI is my ideas PA and my master summariser.

💡For ideas — it helps me when I feel like I'm running around in circles and getting nowhere — it shows me an alternative path to take.

📄 For summarising — this is where he saves me a heap of time. I work with organisations where government white papers are their jam; but ain't nobody got time to read all of that and if it's a particularly specialist area like the housing crisis or the levelling up agenda, it sends me cross-eyed.

So I feed the beast the text and ask him for the top XYZ critical takeaways, I tell him why I need it (e.g. a post on LinkedIn from such and such an organisation) and my audience is XYZ who care about XYZ. The good stuff happens when you give him content and specifics — that's the skill us humans bring to the table.

et voila, I have something that's got me 90% there. I still have to review, edit and ensure it's accurate and on voice; but to go from zero to hero is a good feeling.

PS this post was 0% ChatGPT, 100% Debbie