Should I Care About... AI Stealing My Clients, Sounding Like Everyone Else & Agents That Waste My Time?

Because I've actually just this morning been doing something called The Morning Pages.

So there's like this secret world of people talking about this book called The Artist's Way.

I'm sure some of our listeners have heard of it.

I hadn't heard of it, but a part of it is doing these morning pages where you do three pages of writing.

And the reason I started doing this is because I feel like I've been having a full-blown identity crisis about my work as a writer.

so i wanted to tell you about it and essentially what i've come to the conclusion is that it's ai's fault i'm having an identity crisis because of ai so obviously a massive part of what i do for a living is writing i'm writing people's content for them i'm writing people's copy for their stuff i'm writing copy for my own business So yeah, my identity crisis is quite specifically to do with being a writer.

And obviously at the moment, I'm using AI to up the efficiency, sometimes at my client's request.

Sometimes they want to get maximum output from me.

And obviously there is a benefit to having someone who is a good writer prompting AI because the quality of the output when you understand writing is better.

So on the one hand, I am using AI sometimes at my client's request.

in my writing.

But recently I had this situation and a fellow copywriter of mine had a similar one where I had just written something.

So I had written it as me and I'd written it for my client.

And she came back to me, she's so gorgeous.

And it was just like, oh, this just feels a little bit too AI for me.

I just think it's quite obviously AI and it wasn't AI.

It was me.

And I was like, oh, okay.

Could you just like point out what it is that you're seeing that feels AI? One of them, for example, is that I'd used honestly a lot at the start of a sentence.

Not a lot, but a few times.

Honestly, if you go back into my content, you will see that is part of the way that I write.

It's also a really nice way to draw attention to a sentence.

So if you start the sentence with honestly, you are articulating to your audience that this is a moment of truthfulness.

This is a moment of clarity.

So I'd use that.