274. The AI Fitness Trap: What’s Real, What’s Fake, and How to Use AI For Your Fitness Journey

So first of all, this whole episode and that newsletter was kind of brought on because number one, I've been seeing so many fake accounts lately and it is making me crazy.

And then a couple weeks ago, as you know, I do metabolic coaching and I love to share my clients' journeys.

I have done hands-on personal metabolic coaching, which previously it was just called nutrition coaching but we added some layers once we got our hormone certifications.

But I have done this for probably 12 years, and then I have been a personal trainer since I was 20.

So that's 22 years.

And I love to share my clients' journeys.

I tend to do it in my stories.

I don't like to overwhelm people, but I love to share the process.

And recently I shared a photo of a client who was at a little bit over four months and I shared her photo and someone indirectly asked me in my DMs if this photo had been basically edited through chat because they noticed her hair seemed longer in the second photo And at first, it caught me off guard, I'm gonna be honest, and I was a little bit offended because I thought, "Have I not been around the block enough? Like, do people not know who I am?" I have been on Instagram for 13 years.

Like, I am who I am, for good and for bad.

This is me, and it really did catch me off guard.

But then I took a step back because at first I did feel like, "What? How could she think this?" But I took a step back and realized we are living in such a wild world, and it is so different than it was even just a few years ago with AI-generated photos, videos, voices, articles, testimonials, entire fake people online that people are following and have no idea they're not even real people, which is why I realized, let's talk about this.

Let's talk about these details.

Let's talk about what to be aware of.

Let's talk about how to use AI correctly, and let's talk about how not to.

So first things first, a decent amount of the content that we are seeing online now is AI-generated.

I have seen all kinds of numbers thrown around.

I've seen up to a quarter of the posts that we're seeing.

Now, the tricky part about me even spitting out this number is it was done through an AI server, so I'm not even sure if that's exactly accurate.

But the point is, I bet that you could admit that you've seen some, and I know I've seen some.

And then I think there's some that we don't even know if it is or isn't.

So it is definitely more common.

We are all stumbling upon it way more than we used to.

There are literally thousands of accounts using AI-generated faces, and the AI looks incredibly real, but these people don't even exist.

Like I said, I have seen tons myself.