Christopher S. Penn – Marketing AI Keynote Speaker

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Style Transfer in Generative AI Writing?

    You Ask, I Answer: Style Transfer in Generative AI Writing?

    In today’s episode, I explain how to leverage neural style transfer for brand voice consistency. When training multiple AI personas like “boss” and “conference,” drift can occur. Condense distinctive writing styles into prompts with second-person imperatives. Join me to see how generating a centralized style guide maintains tone across all your AI content.

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    Today’s episode of you ask I answer was recorded in front of a live studio audience at the digital now conference in Denver, Colorado, in November 2023.

    The session title was appropriately you ask I answer live generative AI q&a.

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    Yes, this gentleman here and then you it.

    Thank you.

    Do you think help create sentiment consensus and sentiment around issues, for example, return to office and and trying to serve him one that’s an issue that our staff are thinking about.

    They feel disavow.

    What is, you know, around connecting the community, we have all that information what people posting in our in our organization and what I’d like to be able to determine what our members are talking about and are concerned about before they.

    Yeah, all the language models can do that very, very easily.

    So though there’s two ways of handling it, you could just do an aggregate.

    So for something like Claude, you would load assuming that you’ve done the identified, you take out personal identifying information, you would write a prompt along the lines of, you know, here’s however many hundreds of responses.

    I want you to do an aggregate scoring of sentiment minus 10 to plus 10 and then give me a roundup or secondarily, if you want precision, you would take that data set, you would write a prompt just to identify, just to solve for sentiment.

    You’d say to a language model, your task is to identify sentiment of this passage and then you wrap some code around that process, the data set one response at a time and build a table of the sentiment scores and then you can perform, you know, load that in Excel and say on average, the sentiment was this and if you have other data that you can do quantitative stuff.

    I would personally lean towards the latter, but I also code a lot so I would be comfortable with that outcome.

    For the not as fancy version, let me see if I have one in here that, I don’t have anything that isn’t customer data, but I would say I would take a good selection of maybe 500 responses sampled, put it in a text file, feed it to Claude and say, give me percentages of sentiment, positive, negative, neutral, etc.

    and then identify the top 10 topics within this conversation cluster and it will do that.

    Yes.

    This is very specific to Chai GPT-4.

    Since what I intend to use, we call her Gertrude, she’s super fiery and easy to train.

    I have a photo if you want to see it.

    Anyway, in training it, we’ve kind of gotten into a habit of having several different like chats going so like I have one that’s trained to sound like my boss so because I do a lot of ghost writing for him.

    So I’ll put it in there and see how I make this sound like him and I’ve fed it things so I’ve got like my Chris chat, like a main chat over here and then up here like I have something about particular type of educational offering that we have and once for our conference.

    Is that in maintaining like brand consistency and teaching it about our brand and our association? It’s not going to span through each of those individual chats, I don’t think.

    But is there like a better way to do that instead of just having like all of these disparate chats going on? Or should we be building all online, all in one stream? It makes sense.

    I get what you’re saying.

    What you’ll run into is you’ll run into context window issues.

    Yeah, you’ll start running to drift where it forgets stuff.

    So what I would suggest doing there is what’s called neural style transfer and essentially it is to build a prompt.

    If I have a neural style transfer prompt handy.

    I should probably sort this.

    There we go.

    Let’s see.

    Neural style transfer.

    So I have here it says you will act as a literary expert.

    You’re an expert in style transfer neural style transfer writing.

    Your first task is to read the following text and learn the author’s writing style.

    Read the text then describe the author’s writing style in a bullet point format appropriate for use in a large language model prompt.

    Use a second person imperative tone of voice and style.

    So if I take let’s take a recent email.

    Let’s take this one here.

    Copy that.

    Go back into my style prompts.

    I’ll paste this in here and I’m going to copy that whole chunk.

    Let’s do this.

    ChatGPT looks like it’s having a bad day.

    So we’ll just paste this in here into Claude.

    So this is taking my CEO’s writing style and now it is creating essentially a second person imperative which is a writing prompt.

    So now you would say you might do 10 or 15 or 20 pieces of content that your CEO or your boss writes in one big chunk because Claude can handle lots of large documents and say write me a writing style for this.

    And the next time you go to use this you would say go back to my writing prompt here.

    You will write with the following style.

    You paste your bullet point list in and now it’s going to replicate that writing style without you having to remind it all the time.

    It’s a great way to condense down that style into specific commands.

    So here use an opening hook to draw the reader in establish credibility by mentioning experience and expertise.

    Make your point clearly and directly.

    Don’t dance around the main message invite feedback and input from the reader.

    That’s all my CEO style.

    That’s how she writes.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Reducing Generative AI Hallucinations?

    You Ask, I Answer: Reducing Generative AI Hallucinations?

    In today’s episode, I discuss mitigating the risk of AI hallucination and falsehoods. Pure language models like GPT-4 can make convincing yet untrue claims. Tools like Bing and Google Bard cite sources so you can verify authenticity. Join me to explore best practices for reducing made-up responses from generative AI.

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    Today’s episode of you ask I answer was recorded in front of a live studio audience at the digital now conference in Denver, Colorado, in November 2023.

    The session title was appropriately you ask I answer live generative AI q&a.

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    Other questions.

    Yes.

    It’s fine.

    Right now I have a staff member who is taking content from content specialists in putting it into chat GPT and saying, Okay, write me 10 social media posts and advertising copy, etc, etc.

    What I would really love is that it is we had a mechanism to implement the social posts and say, now schedule these posts, you know, two per month over a three month period, etc, etc.

    Where are we having achieving that? And does it already exist time? It depends on whose platform using so Agorapulse, for example, has that utility where you can has generated AI prompts and you can say, here’s what I want and do the thing.

    I don’t know if it fits that exact use case, but it will get you awfully close.

    The if it can’t almost every platform has bulk import of stuff at some in some way.

    So what again, what you would do is say, here’s the thing, make me social content, but you’re going to format the output as a CSV file.

    Column one is the URL column to the social post column three is this the date and time I want to scheduled process this provide me a link to download.

    So that’s your prompt.

    It will spit out the output that you want.

    And now you can just bulk load that into your social schedule.

    Yeah.

    What about the images? So most social posts have images anymore.

    We all are using that if it’s not, you know, like just the web link that generates the image.

    So is there a mechanism for that as well with a JPEG or a ping cloud? It depends on your social scheduler.

    If your social schedule can take an image link, then you would put your visual assets on some publicly accessible server and then to provide the reference links to to those things.

    That’s probably the easiest way to do that.

    And the AI tool you’re describing could grab the link on the website and…

    Yeah.

    There was one called Agorapulse.

    Yes, they’re based in France.

    They they I’ve been using them for years and all of the social scheduling tools right now are struggling to figure out how to integrate AI because they all want to be able to say that they have it.

    Most of them are putting some implementation of open AI software in it, but they haven’t really figured out yet how to make it integrated into the product.

    So it’s that particular part of the industry is still a very nascent space.

    Yes, here and then here.

    So it sounds like so many people in the room are well along their AI journey and I am not.

    The last session I was in, they mentioned that they had started down the process using GVT-4, got to the end of it and said, “This is giving us untrue responses and we can’t make it work.

    I have to keep my data.

    I mean, it’s legal guidance, so I can’t risk untrue responses.

    Does that negate the use of AI? Can you take it back to PureSearch or is there a better tool? I would use Bing because you’ll at least get citations for where it’s getting its information or Google Bard is the other one.

    So let’s go into Bard here.

    Identify some ways that derivative works retain their copyright and the conditions under which a derivative work would lose its copyright, such as a transformative work.

    Cite relevant cases.

    So one of the things that Bard in particular has, they just added not too long ago, is a little button down here called, “Hey, are you lying?” It’s called double check my response.

    But what it does is it then goes and crawls the Google’s index catalog and it highlights in green, “Hey, this is where I found this information.” And then this one here, this Goldsmith vs.

    Hearst says, “I found content that differs.

    I think I lied.” But this one here, in this case, the Google vs.

    Oracle America, it found a citation that you can then go and check out to make sure it’s true.

    So the search-based language models now have some level of, “Hey, here’s where I got this information from.” I would absolutely not use ChatGPT for finding relevant data because it just hallucinates.

    And it’s not intentional, it’s not malicious.

    The way it works is it’s pulling those word clouds and it finds associations that have the greatest strength and it assembles an answer.

    In very early versions, when you ask a question like, “Who was president of the United States in 1492?” It pulls 1492, what are the words associated with that? Well, there’s like this Christopher Columbus person.

    It pulls United States, what are the words associated with that? And the president, well, that’s an important person.

    So it would answer, “Christopher Columbus was president of the United States in 1492,” even though it’s factually completely wrong, but the statistical associations made that the logical answer.

    So pure language models like CLOD and like ChatGPT’s, the GPT-4 model, they have no fact checking, right? Whereas the search-engine based ones have some citations.

    So I would always use that anytime I need to say, “Where did you get this information?” If you enjoyed this video, please hit the like button.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Managing Rectangular Data with Generative AI?

    You Ask, I Answer: Managing Rectangular Data with Generative AI?

    In today’s episode, I tackle how to use AI with structured, tabular data. While generative AI struggles with graphs and images, it can write custom Python code to process databases or spreadsheets. By providing prompts about your goals, these tools create tailored data extraction and analysis scripts. Join me as I demo generating code for statistical techniques like lasso regression to unlock insights from rectangular datasets.

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    Today’s episode of you ask I answer was recorded in front of a live studio audience at the digital now conference in Denver, Colorado, in November 2023.

    The session title was appropriately you ask I answer live generative AI q&a enjoy and is there anything that we is that are trying to be advocates for properties of it as is that identifying every article that has any inspiration that was from AI is that only create exclusive concepts and you’re using AI for idea generation given philosophies on how to prevent it on well, so I think the transparency is important, particularly for associations.

    Transparency is important to say here’s what we are and are not doing with this the software.

    Here’s what we’ve published, you know, here’s how it was made.

    It’s kind of like you look at this thing here.

    Right on here is a nutrition label says here’s what’s in this bag now it may or may not be true.

    Like it says vegetable oil, that’s a bit big.

    There’s a lot of vegetables.

    But at least you know what’s in the bag more or less and you know what’s harmful.

    And we’re starting to see some of that in AI with people labeling data sets like hey, here’s what’s in this data set.

    When you publish information, you might want to think about like what is the nutrition label for this document even look like? Can we prove where it came from? Can we show an ingredients list? And if AI is part of that, that’s fine, right? Like no one dings a company for saying, hey, you used a blender for making this instead of you know, mixing it by hand.

    But we understand that there’s these tools in supply chain.

    So I’d say that’s an important part.

    And then what we were talking about earlier about certification saying, as an association, you are in a unique position to say, when we publish this, we’ve certified that it’s true.

    If there’s research or data coming from members, we are putting our stamp of approval saying we have vetted this, we have peer reviewed it, and this is true.

    And other things you may see out there on the interwebs that may contradict that.

    We haven’t vetted it, we haven’t processed it.

    So we can’t say that this is true, especially around stuff like health.

    There’s so much misinformation about health, like in food and nutrition, that if you’re an association in that space, you have the unique opportunity to say like, we will tell you what is and is not true.

    In the back there.

    Wait for the mic.

    Sorry.

    That’s an opportunity for us.

    Yes.

    Yes.

    We’re reliable.

    And we’re gonna be able to trust them.

    Exactly.

    And that’s why that disclosure and transparency about AI is so important so that your members continue to trust you.

    When you publish AI generated content, you say this is generated by AI, but it’s been reviewed by one of our team.

    And we can certify that this even though machine generated it’s still true.

    Other questions? Dad jokes.

    Here.

    You talked this morning, you talked about extraction as a process that AI can assist with.

    And I think mostly this like language, you know, like text, extracting key points, action items from text.

    We’re an organization has lots of data, like structured data.

    It seems like AI isn’t really the tool to use to understand like data that’s in the tabular format.

    Or, but there are other tools that are developing that are more geared towards, you know, we’re interested in say, extracting data from like graph images, you know, like that.

    And I just don’t know what the state of the art is in terms of those controls.

    So for tabular data, you’re if you want to work with that data, your best bet, if assuming you don’t already have the tooling is actually working with GPT-4, particularly the advanced data analysis module, because what the tools do is they can write you code, right? So they can write you Python code that can process data for specific things.

    So if I go in here, let’s go here and let’s start ourselves a new prompt.

    You are a Python programming expert.

    You know, NumPy, Pandas, data science, data extraction, data cleansing.

    Your first task is to ingest data from a SQLite database, named Bob.

    And the table name is members.

    Write the appropriate code to extract the data, identify numeric columns, and produce a lasso regression of the churn column based on the churn column.

    Now, this is completely fictitious, but what it’s going to start doing is essentially start writing you the code that you need to programmatically access that using Python in this case.

    So if you have rectangular data, tabular data, and you want to extract insights from it, you may not necessarily be able to load it into one of these tools, but you can have them write you the tooling you need to then do those things, particularly if you know what you want, but you don’t know how to do it.

    Like lasso regression and ridge regression, for example, are two classical methods for figuring out, hey, I’ve got a bunch of numbers and an outcome.

    Of all these numbers I have, which one relates to the outcome best and gets rid of noise that we don’t need? Lasso regression is one of those techniques.

    So you might say, I’ve got a lot of data and I’ve got an outcome I care about, but I don’t know how to figure out what’s real and what’s not.

    The tool will eventually, when you chat with it, say, you know, these are some of your choices for regression with it that you can then take and try out on your data.

    That’s how I tackle structured data.

    For vision data, right now they all kind of suck.

    They’re OK, but they have a very hard time, particularly with poorly made graphs, of extracting data out of those graphs because it’s the same problem you and I have.

    You look at a graph that’s badly done, you’re like, I don’t know what that says, other than there’s a line that’s going up and to the right.

    If you look at the graph and you can’t figure out what the data is, there’s a good chance the machine can’t either.

    Wow, it’s really slow.

    Other questions? I really like if you have people who can write code that can inspect the work and help get running, this is a phenomenal way to build tooling within your organization for those efficiencies because there’s things you do every month or every week or every day that are just repetitive.

    You get a spreadsheet full of data and you’re like, I’ve got to copy and paste out this and this and this to make this PowerPoint.

    You give that to the machine, you say, here’s what I need to get out, write me the code to access the spreadsheet and pull out these relevant data points and it will do that.

    And then if your computer has Python installed on it, or you’ve got a server somewhere in your organization that has it on it, then you run that code against its spreadsheet every month and now you’re not spending an hour and a half copying and pasting anymore.

    Now you just run the code and you get on with your day.

    There’s lots and lots of those little wins throughout everyone’s workday that the challenge is not the technology, the challenge is knowing to even ask the question, Hey, can I get a machine to do this? Like this seems like an easy thing.

    Can I get a machine to do this? The answer is usually is yes.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Privacy-Friendly AI Transcription Software?

    You Ask, I Answer: Privacy-Friendly AI Transcription Software?

    In today’s episode, I address concerns around AI transcription and data privacy. For confidential meetings, use open-source tools like Whisper that run locally. While convenient, sending audio to cloud services risks exposing sensitive information. Join me as we explore ways to get AI-powered transcripts without compromising privacy or security.

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    Today’s episode of you ask I answer was recorded in front of a live studio audience at the digital now conference in Denver, Colorado, in November 2023.

    The session title was appropriately you ask I answer live generative AI q&a.

    Enjoy.

    Related to what you were just thinking about, I work for a legal association.

    And there’s been conversations around potentially taking some legal treatises and creating AI tools around that where, you know, this particular bot knows this book inside and out.

    But something that stung on me based on the keynote earlier is well, then we’re taking copyrighted information, and then we’re putting it in a format that can that no longer is protected by copyright.

    So I’m curious about the implications of that.

    Okay, so I am not a lawyer, I cannot give legal advice.

    I’m going to start with that disclosure.

    My one of my lawyers said that a machine a purely machine generated piece of content that cannot be copyrighted.

    But an existing piece of content that you put in that has copyright, what comes out after the machine is worked on is considered would be considered under the law a derivative work.

    And derivative works retain copyright.

    So if right now I’m recording this thing, I have all these microphones strapped to me, I look great.

    I can take the transcript from this, which is my words, my original words, which has copyright, because I’m making it right now.

    And it can take the transcript, dump it into this thing, and I was gonna say guy, but it’s not a guy and spit out a summary that summary is a derivative work of the original copyright protected work.

    I don’t know, and I’ll have to ask my lawyer, if that has been tested in court yet.

    But it looks like there’s precedent for something like that.

    So anything where you’re putting in a human led work to begin with, and what comes out is is a derivative of that retains the human led copyright.

    Cool.

    I have a question about some of the recordings AI that’s out there like Otter, Doom has its own thing now.

    Because I think that would be really helpful for like our board meetings, specifically a point we have a person that like, right now is like shantyping everything quite furiously and smoke comes off of our people.

    Yeah.

    But I think our hesitation in leveraging something like that is kind of a privacy thing because in board meetings, you do talk about things that are tricky at times.

    And help me feel better about that.

    And also Claude is absolutely a guy.

    He’s my boyfriend, and I love him dearly.

    This is an open source application called whisper.

    It uses open AI as models.

    To get it set up requires a little bit of technical elbow grease.

    But this runs on your laptop.

    So you feed the audio to it on your laptop, it produces transcript on your laptop, the data never goes anywhere.

    Right.

    So that would be my suggestion.

    If you like, I would use this for medical data, because I would never want that data going to anyone else for any reason.

    And then the transcripts get produced, they just live on your desktop.

    Let’s see if I can find a folder here.

    Yeah, there’s my grab folder.

    So it spits out.

    This is what I use for like YouTube videos, I just have a I dropped a YouTube URL, and it spits out the transcript.

    And the other advantage of this is because it’s a desktop application, again, take some set it up, elbow grease to set it up, it’s free.

    So you can transcribe as much as you want and not pay a bill for it.

    Whereas all the other services, they either charge you per minute or charge you per hour or charge you for for something.

    This is this runs locally.

    Will it do like zoom or team meetings as well as live meetings or just…

    If you have the audio, if you have audio, you’ll need to convert it to the format that it requires, which is a fairly common format.

    There’s a free utility to do that too.

    And then you’re off to the races.

    Other questions? Random answer 42.

    Perfect.

    Thank you.

    Thank you.

    You know, obviously, we’ve heard a lot of, you know, get data out of chat, then have a person that yes, then utilize.

    I think most of the society won’t follow that philosophy.

    Black Hat websites.

    Are we potentially going down a path where two years from now, we almost had a game of telephone where there’s bad AI created content everywhere? We have that now.

    We have that now.

    In fact, there was an election in, I want to say Serbia earlier this year, where the campaign was so rife with AI generated misinformation, that nobody knew what to believe.

    Most of what was being shared on social media was not either of the candidates and stuff.

    And so that the election itself is in question because no one can tell what was actually truthful or not.

    And both candidates like that, I didn’t say that.

    And obviously, there’s so yeah, there’s this, there are substantial risks to AI around our ability to understand what’s true.

    And part of part of our challenges in society that I’m not super optimistic about, is that to discern what’s true or not requires critical thinking and requires overcoming emotional bias.

    When we see content that agrees with our point of view, we will believe it whether or not it’s true, because we agree with it.

    And a lot of it has to do with what’s happened with marketing in the last 15 years.

    Political marketers figured out that if you bind political position to identity, to someone’s identity, you cement that person’s loyalty, because now an attack on their position is attack on that person, and you’re never going to change their mind.

    So that’s kind of where we are right now.

    And I don’t see that getting better, because I feel like we have less critical thinking than ever.

    And that’s kind of a short falling of education.

    But that’s been a problem for 50 some odd years, really, since you start to see people with very strong agendas start to influence local boards of education in the 80s.

    And that has had a deleterious effect on the education system as a whole.

    And boy was that a rattle.

    Sorry.

    But the short answer is, it’s going to get worse before it gets better if it gets better at all.

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  • Mind Readings: Custom GPTs from OpenAI and Your Content Marketing Strategy

    Mind Readings: Custom GPTs from OpenAI and Your Content Marketing Strategy

    In this very hot take from the OpenAI DevDay keynote on 2023-11-06, I detail what I think the implications of Custom GPTs are and what you should be thinking about and doing today to prepare for them.

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    Okay, let’s talk about a very quick hot take on opening eyes announcements.

    We’re gonna leave aside the developer stuff, which was really cool, like assisted API and all that stuff.

    And focus on the one thing that I think most businesses should be paying attention to right now.

    One of the things that was announced was called custom GPT.

    This is essentially a an instance of chat GPT that you take, and you customize you give it a purpose, you have some instructions, you give it some capabilities.

    And then you can publish it, you can publish it to yourself, to your organization, to the public at large.

    And apparently later on this month, you’ll be able to sell access to it.

    Think about what this means.

    This is a piece of software now that you can build with no coding at all, and load it up with your data, and then sell or give away access to it.

    So let me give you a practical example of what this could be like, say you’ve got a newsletter like I do.

    And you’ve got 10 years of back issues.

    If you digest those down, get them into the right format, and then load those newsletters as a knowledge base into your custom GPT, you’ve now created an app with no coding that has your collected knowledge in it.

    Now, we don’t know if they’re what the limits are on the systems and document sizes and things yet.

    But it seems pretty clear that you’ll at least be able to load up a good amount of some of your data.

    And based on what was being shown in the demo, external folks won’t have access to the data, they’ll just have access to the knowledge of the data.

    This is a really big deal.

    This means that you can essentially manufacture a version of chat GPT with your data with your organization’s data with your publicly available data.

    Now I would follow the same best practices as always.

    Don’t put confidential information, don’t put personally identifying information, don’t put sensitive data in.

    But if you’ve got a blog, if you’ve got some white papers, you’ve got some books, assuming the system can handle them, you put that into your custom GPT, your custom app.

    And you now have the ability for people to chat with it.

    The very simple example.

    Think about a website like, like my friends are marketing profs, they could load their public blog posts into this thing, and then have a custom chat bot people can go into and just ask it questions based on the knowledge that they have specialized with no coding at all.

    They could sell access to it.

    Again, no coding, you just have this thing available.

    I might put in episodes of the of my podcast, I want to make a Trust Insights version of this, I could even make a version as an administrator of slack of our analytics from marketers slack, I could export that remove all the personal information like names and things, and then give that to a GPT.

    And then inside my slack community, I could offer a custom version of chat GPT trained on everything my community has talked about.

    So there are two things that you need to be thinking about right now.

    One ideas, what things would you want to make a custom version of chat GPT with or to do you have the data, the company that has a good handle on their data now has an even bigger competitive advantage over companies that do not every company that has data laying around that is in good condition that is not sensitive, and that benefits customers should be thinking real hard about what will it take for us to build a a custom instance of chat GPT with these custom GPT s and give or sell access to it as a way of monetizing your data as a way of monetizing your knowledge, and it was a way of satisfying your customers with the the experience and knowledge you already have, but is locked away inside your corporate walls.

    Again, I can’t emphasize strongly enough, don’t put sensitive or confidential information into this thing just yet until you know, there are versions made available to have those controls, but be thinking about the publicly available data that you have right now that’s on your blog on your website on this on that.

    Getting it into a custom GPT as soon as it’s available to your account and starting to deploy your custom version of chat GPT.

    That’s all for today.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: Monetizing Data for Generative AI?

    You Ask, I Answer: Monetizing Data for Generative AI?

    In today’s episode, I tackle questions from the audience on leveraging AI to generate revenue. From using generative tools to create more content to building conversational interfaces, there are ways associations can capitalize on these emerging technologies. However, we have to be mindful of the risks, as AI still makes mistakes and can “hallucinate” false information. Join me to explore opportunities and potential pitfalls when implementing AI to drive monetization.

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    Today’s episode of you ask I answer was recorded in front of a live studio audience at the digital now conference in Denver, Colorado, in November 2023.

    The session title was appropriately you ask I answer live generative AI q&a.

    Enjoy.

    Great, thank you.

    Alright, so like I was announced, this is completely informal.

    This it’s it’s a wild west anything goes you have a question about anything you’ve seen or heard today, I’ll do my best to answer it.

    If not, I will make something up and tell you that too.

    So who has a question that they would like to tap? Yes, person in green.

    Wait, gotta wait for the microphone.

    Yes, that’s okay.

    I’m too.

    So I am already just feeling a lot of pressure from a deep software stack that I would like to slow down.

    So the thought of making that software stack bigger with AI is something that’s intimidating to me.

    And I just like to hear your thoughts on keeping your software stack manageable while also incorporating AI into what you’re doing.

    Yeah, so in terms of managing your your Mar tech stack, a big question is going to be who your stack is centered on.

    Because pretty much like if you if you’re a Microsoft shop, if you’re a Google shop, if you’re an Amazon shop, you’ve already got a vendor that’s probably already been through the vendor approval process and stuff.

    And so that would be the place I would start.

    Pretty much every tech company has an AI stack.

    So Amazon has AWS bedrock and Sage maker, Google has duet and GCP, Google Cloud, Microsoft, of course, has Azure.

    So everybody’s got something.

    So if you want to try to at least avoid adding vendors, that would be the place I would start.

    That’s also probably a good place to start because you’re going to have less issues with compliance if you’re working within your existing tech stack vendor because they’ve got an offering that chances are in somewhere in the terms of service, there’s also like saying, here’s how we protect your data and so on and so forth.

    That’s the first place.

    It will grow.

    That’s really kind of unavoidable, particularly for some of the point solutions where there isn’t a an off the shelf model.

    So the hey, Jen, video generation, that’s a point solution right now.

    There are ways to engineer a similar system, but you got to be super technical to do it.

    So you’ll probably have to use that vendor until one of the big tech companies offers that internally and stuff.

    So, yep.

    Next question.

    Right there in the front.

    Right, I guess.

    So I was in a session on package applications and we were talking about monetization.

    Yes.

    And so we’re all you know, association type organizations.

    Seems like there’s a lot of ways to leverage AI for process efficiency, improved, you know, products and services, user experience.

    Are there specific things that associations should be looking at that could potentially generate revenue, either directly or indirectly from applications? How do you make money right now? Membership, publications, meetings, that kind of stuff.

    Right.

    So immediately you think about publications, right? So publications are locked into a format, right? It’s a thing.

    You can use the tools that exist right now to broaden the scope of what those things are.

    So like if you want, there’s Google Cloud has a really good text to speech API.

    One of the things that I’ve done with my past books I’ve written is I said, okay, drop this in, turn it into an audio book and you get machine read stuff, but it is now in a format that is that you can listen to instead.

    So even just taking the existing content library you have and making it multimedia is a way to increase the value of the product and you can either sell it separately or you can bundle in as a value add.

    That’s the first thing that comes to mind.

    Second thing that comes to mind is if you’re using the tools for content creation, by default, you can just create a lot more stuff with their assistance.

    Of all the tools that are out there for long form content creation, probably the best one right now is Anthropix Claude because it has a very large context window, aka memory.

    It can process 60-ish thousand words at a time.

    So you could give it, say, a journal publication and say, hey, I want you to come up with four more articles based on this theme from copying this style with these style citations and just amplify the amount of stuff you can create.

    The third area, which is a lot more risky, is enabling conversational interfaces to your content.

    If you build that fine-tuned model, someone could have a conversation about what your association does.

    I would be careful with that just because the models themselves can still say really funky things at times.

    Depending on the model you use, it can hallucinate.

    It can just outright make shit up.

    Monetization, like I said during the whatever thing, turning your data into one of those plugins that you can then sell access to that as a service is another option.

    That’s a more technical option too, but it’s a way of leveraging all the data you have, particularly if you have a lot of public facing data.

    You can make a conversation agent or a plugin for language models that specifically talks about that thing.

    It can either be access to the data set itself, it can be access to the machine readable version of that, or it can be a plugin for a model.

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    Over the past week, a lot has happened in the world of artificial intelligence, particularly on the regulation of it. We had the President of the USA’s executive order as well as the Bletchley Park declaration, a general “this is how we want AI to be used” statement signed by 27 nations.

    Here’s the thing about both these documents, especially the Executive Order. They’re largely unenforceable wish lists. They focus on general ideas around AI but have no enforcement for the private sector where harms are most likely to occur. And that’s understandable; creating those regulations in the USA requires legislative action. The way the USA government works, an Executive Order really only applies to the Executive Branch of the government. Anything that legislates the broader citizenry has to come from the Legislative Branch, which is the US Congress.

    But beyond the machinations of the political machinery, the reality is that artificial intelligence is moving fast. Very, very fast. So fast that even an Executive Order crafted less than a week ago has some glaring holes in it that will restrict only the most obvious problems. For example, there’s a section on misuse of AI that states:

    I hereby direct the Secretary of Commerce, within 90 days of the date of this order, to: (iii) Determine the set of technical conditions for a large AI model to have potential capabilities that could be used in malicious cyber-enabled activity, and revise that determination as necessary and appropriate. Until the Secretary makes such a determination, a model shall be considered to have potential capabilities that could be used in malicious cyber-enabled activity if it requires a quantity of computing power greater than 10^26 integer or floating-point operations and is trained on a computing cluster that has a set of machines physically co-located in a single datacenter, transitively connected by data center networking of over 100 Gbit/s, and having a theoretical maximum compute capacity of 10^20 integer or floating point operations per second for training AI.

    This is based on a very specific view of how AI models work, a view that was true a year ago but is no longer true now. A malicious actor isn’t going to use a big, open model like GPT-4 to do bad things. They’re going to use a network of small models that runs on commodity infrastructure – like your laptop – or a distributed network to do that, probably using an agent network like LangChain or AutoGen or AutoGPT. This has been the case for a few months already.

    More important, this is attempting to regulate the technology itself. The cat is out of the bag, the toothpaste is out of the tube, the ship has sailed on regulating the technology itself. Even if you were to claw back every major provider of AI in the big named players in the USA, there are thousands of models out there, some produced by sovereign nations like the United Arab Emirates’ Falcon model, GLM-130 from Tsinghua University in China, and many others. There’s no turning back the clock on the technology.

    That means you have to regulate and moderate the outcomes itself. On the topic of criminal activity, that’s pretty straightforward: fairly and aggressively enforce existing laws. Committing fraud with AI is still committing fraud. Impersonating someone for malicious purposes is still impersonation, whether you have a well-trained actor or an AI. If you wanted to discourage some of the misuses of AI, add a multiplier on sentencing – if you use AI to do a bad thing, you get punishment plus extra punishment.

    For things where there isn’t necessarily a crime, but substantial potential misuse, like the ability for language models to de-anonymize people solely based on their language (a paper that was released a few days ago documents this, but it has not been peer-reviewed yet, so take it with a grain of salt), that bears watching and monitoring and independently testing. Those datasets that such an ecosystem produces, you still can’t regulate because just having them isn’t necessarily a violation of law (depending on your jurisdiction), but what a bad actor does with them will be the violation of law. For example, if an unethical insurance company were to ingest social media data, de-identify it, and try to match it to policyholders and then discriminate against policyholders based on protected classes, that’s when the law gets broken and we can take action. Until then, we have to test things to determine how much harm they could create, and how easy or hard it is to do those things.

    These are all things to pay attention to, but the biggest challenge, the biggest problem, isn’t one technology can fix. Technology is the source of the problem in that enables the problem, but we can’t use technology to prevent it. It’s the blurring of reality. You’ve almost certainly seen one or more videos produced by companies like HeyGen in which a person’s likeness is trained and then used to synthesize that person saying something they’ve never actually said. HeyGen’s capabilities are based on code that’s available broadly as open-source software (they’ve done a really nice job tuning it and putting a friendly user interface on it, but the engine behind it is publicly available).

    When people are presented with content now, one of the questions we have to ask is whether or not that content was generated by the party it’s attributed to. For example, if you see a video of a politician you agree with – or disagree with – saying something, it’s now a valid reaction to ask whether or not that politician actually said that. This is made more complicated by the fact that in our hyper-polarized world, we tend to believe things we agree with, even if they’re factually incorrect.

    The antidote to this is difficult: critical thinking. Detective work. A willingness to not believe something just because you want to believe it and instead doing a little investigation to find out whether or not it’s true. Asking for sources and then following up to validate those sources. Questioning authority. Developing personal networks of trustworthy experts. And most challenging of all, a willingness to update your memory and change your beliefs when presented with proven evidence to the contrary.

    For example, you’ve probably heard that Vitamin C is good for preventing colds, right? That’s certainly emphasized enough in commercial messaging. Except… it’s not true. For the vast majority of the population, Vitamin C is ineffective at preventing colds, and exerts only a modest effect on cold symptoms once ill.

    Does this change your thinking? Does this change your beliefs? Does this change your behaviors? It should, if the issue is important to you. It changed my beliefs and what behaviors I take – with this, there’s no need to purchase any kind of Vitamin C supplementation. I can and do still consume citrus fruit, but that’s just because I enjoy citrus fruit. I don’t need to go out of my way to overload on Vitamin C for this particular use case.

    This is a change in how we think. Instead of being passive consumers of content and information, we and everyone we care about need to make the change to being active questioners of content. For parents, think about teaching your kids to emulate characters like spies and detectives, professionals whose job it is to discern truth from falsehood, and verify their findings.

    Challenge yourself. Using commonly available tools, take a point that you know to be true and use generative AI to create a convincing alternative and see how far you get in creating something false. (then please responsibly destroy your work or at least slap giant disclaimers all over it) See how easy or hard it is to manufacture something, because one of the best inoculants for misinformation is seeing how the trick is done. Once you know the magic trick, it loses a good amount of its impact, and it opens your mind to asking questions. Is that really a video of Taylor Swift or Volodymyr Zelenskiy, or did someone else manufacture that? Are there any tells you can look for that would give away whether it was real or fake?

    Stopping AI-generated misinformation isn’t a technology problem, and it won’t have a good technology solution. Today’s AI detection tools are often no better than a coin toss and have an alarmingly high false positive rate. No, the issue is a people problem, and that requires a people solution.

    For companies, brands, and people, one of the most important things you can do is establish a conduit of authenticity. Make it easy for someone to reach you and validate that you said something or not. Transparency is the currency of trust, so disclose the use of AI wherever you use it so that your customers know you can be trusted to do so – and when something inevitably happens where misinformation is generated purporting to be you, they have a long record of trustworthy interactions with you to help reinforce your claims that the misinformation is not from you. Build a strong community so that you have an army of defenders to help debunk when misinformation about you occurs. And most important, in all your interactions, build a reputation for being trustworthy so that it makes it easier to discern when something is clearly amiss.

    The line between fiction and reality gets more blurry by the day with technological tools, but the underpinnings of trust remain the same. There’s a lot you can do today to inoculate yourself against misinformation and inoculate your audience as well. We each have to do our part to solve for the people problem that AI technology enables when it makes it easier to blur the line between reality and fiction.

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    You Ask, I Answer: SEO Prompts for ChatGPT?

    In today’s episode, Shara asks for good ChatGPT prompts beyond “optimize for SEO.” I explain treating it like an intern – give step-by-step instructions, not vague directives. Share key concepts, outline requirements, provide research sources. Tune in for actionable tips on crafting effective prompts for generative AI.

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    In today’s episode, Shara asks, I often use chat GPT for copy on my website.

    Are there any good prompts to use besides optimized content for SEO? Okay.

    That is not the best prompt to use for, for using chat GPT to optimize for SEO or anything.

    What you want to think about prompting it to do is think about these tools like they’re the world’s smartest intern.

    If you had an, a brand new intern day one at the company and you sit them down at your desk and give them the coffee and stuff like that, would you hand them a blog post or a page and say, Hey, optimize this content for SEO.

    Would you do that? I sure hope not.

    I sure hope not because you’re going to get not great results.

    Right.

    You’re going to get terrible results because the intern’s going to be like, I don’t know what SEO is, I don’t know what your website’s about.

    I can wing it and hope it turns out well.

    And it’s not going to turn out well.

    Instead, if you had the world’s smartest intern and they sat down day one on the job and you hand them a piece of content and you said, Hey, use this piece of content, I want you to expand on it.

    I want you to use the phrase industrial concrete more frequently.

    I want you to use a thesaurus and do some research on Wikipedia on what other things co relate with industrial concrete.

    I want you to look up maybe five interesting facts about industrial concrete.

    I want you to be able to answer the question in the text.

    What happens if you’re laying concrete and it rains for several days? Side note.

    That’s a good thing.

    It helps the concrete cure faster.

    And I want you to write in professional tone of voice.

    I want it to be 1500 words.

    I want you to avoid adverbs.

    I want you to avoid passive voice.

    Go.

    Would that get you a better result from the intern than say, Hey, here’s some content optimizer for SEO.

    Of course it would.

    You get so much better results from that long set of directions that you gave the intern because they would have more of an idea of what to do.

    That is what an artificial intelligence model is.

    A generative AI model is a smart intern on day one of the job every day.

    Every time you turn it on, every time you hit the new chat button, it is day one on the job and you have to tell that intern how to do their job.

    That’s one of the reasons why in all the trainings and keynotes and workshops I give, I tell people keep a, keep a prompt library, keep a journal of prompts so that every time you have to re prompt the intern to tell them who they are and what their job is, you don’t have to rewrite it from scratch.

    Every time you can copy and paste the two paragraphs say, Hey, intern, here’s who you are.

    Here’s what you’re doing.

    Here’s the key concepts and so on and so forth.

    That would be my suggestion.

    My friend Andy Crestodina has a great gap analysis SEO prompt.

    He will say, Hey, based on what you know about industrial concrete and all the keywords that go with it and stuff, here is my content about industrial concrete.

    Tell me what I’m missing that would be of interest to my buyer persona.

    And he provides the buyer persona as well.

    And the tools will do exactly that.

    They’ll say, okay, I’ve got your content.

    I’ve got your buyer persona.

    Let me see based on what I know, what the buyer persona would probably be interested in is that in your content or not.

    And that gap analysis is so powerful for making your content more useful because if the tool can identify most pages about industrial concrete talk about curing and yours does not, you probably want to have that on there.

    You probably want to have a whole paragraph about how industrial concrete is cured and how it can be ready for service in a certain amount of time and what the structural integrity of it and what that the tensile force load is on it all these things that go into content about concrete you would provide you provide to the intern, you would tell them here’s what to do.

    And that gap analysis is incredibly powerful for SEO because it satisfies user intent.

    And because semantically it will have more of the words and phrases that a service like Google would expect to see on a page about industrial concrete.

    If you had a page on on espresso, what words and phrases would you expect to see on that page? Google’s looking, Google’s looking for lattes and cappuccinos and mochachinos and all that stuff.

    And if those words aren’t there then in its computations for how it determines things like trustworthiness or expertise, if those words are missing, there’s a chance that it’s going to say, hey, you know what, you don’t seem to be particularly expert about this because you’re missing a whole bunch of words that should be there.

    If you use Andy’s trick for gap analysis, you will at least not make those mistakes.

    At least you will at least not have those persistent gaps in your content.

    So that is the answer for today.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: ChatGPT Negatively Affecting SEO?

    You Ask, I Answer: ChatGPT Negatively Affecting SEO?

    In today’s episode, Kim asks if using ChatGPT for content hurts SEO. I explain it’s just a tool – good prompts make it effective, bad prompts make it useless. Invest time learning to prompt properly and AI can improve quality and speed. Tune in to get actionable advice on leveraging AI as a content creation asset.

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    In today’s episode, Kim asks, if bandwidth is an issue, can you use chat GPT to help write blog like content or will this affect SEO negatively? What you write in chat GPT isn’t going to affect SEO one way or the other.

    Inherently intrinsically as a tool, right? It’s like, will using Microsoft Word affect SEO? Not really.

    It’s a tool.

    What will affect your SEO is writing crap content, right? If you are, if bandwidth and time is an issue, there’s a good chance that what the machine will produce will be better because it’s simply faster.

    And if it takes you eight hours to write a blog post and you rush and you get done in four, the quality of your writing in that four hours is probably going to be lower.

    If on the other hand, you have that same four hour time window, and you have chat GPT to do the first draft in five minutes, then that leaves you much more time to edit it to refine it to ask it to rewrite parts of it to enhance it, etc.

    chat GPT and all the generative AI tools are literally just that they’re just tools.

    They are very good tools.

    They are highly capable tools, but they are still just tools.

    And as a result, if we treat them like magic oracles, some kind we’re going to get bad results, we’re going to get results that we’re not satisfied with.

    If we treat them as tools, like a word processor, and we learn what they can and can’t do well, we’re going to get better results, we’re going to get more coherent results, more thorough results, and of course, faster results.

    The question you have to ask yourself is how much time are you willing to invest learning how to work with generative AI tools like chat GPT so that you generate really good results.

    A lot of people take this approach of thinking that chat GPT and tools like it can read your mind you type in, write a blog post about B2B marketing.

    That’s going to do you no good.

    Statistically, the model is going to look at the most frequently associated co-occurring terms with that and you’re going to get a blog post that is bland, that’s generic, that says nothing that has no point of view, that is terrible content.

    And that’s not the tools part.

    The tool is not a mind reader.

    The tool is a bit like the the old mythological genie in a lamp that grants you wishes.

    You have to be real careful what you ask for because you will get what you ask for, even if it’s not what you want.

    Because what we ask for and what we want tend to be different things sometimes.

    So treat them like that.

    Treat them like a genie in a lamp or the world’s smartest intern.

    Does having the world’s smartest intern help you write your blog content faster if your bandwidth crunched? Sure.

    With enough preparation and training and information and guidance to generate a good result.

    It’s not magic.

    It will not do things that it is not asked to do.

    And so if in our prompting, we do not specify our requirements carefully, we don’t say, Hey, this is what I want you to do step by step.

    It will not generate them.

    If you want an example of what a prompt should look like, at least as a starter prompt, go to trust insights.ai slash prompt sheet, and you can get our free one page PDF, no forms to fill out or anything.

    But that prompt will get you started on writing more thorough prompts that will that will generate better results for you than just walking up to it and say, Hey, write me a blog post about x.

    That’s not going to go well.

    So yes, you absolutely can use chat, GPT and tools like it to write blog content.

    But it’s like anything, it is a skill to learn prompt engineering.

    And it is essential that you invest the time to to foster and grow that skill so that you can reap those time savings and quality improvements from artificial intelligence.

    If you don’t invest that time, if you don’t learn how to use the tool, you’re not going to see the savings any more than buying a blender and not reading the manual and then wondering, Hey, my steak dinner turned out really poorly.

    Yeah, you didn’t read the manual and you used a tool for your outcome that should not go with that outcome.

    And as a result, you’re drinking your steak tonight.

    Sorry.

    So yes, you can use chat GPT with training and experience.

    And the outcome the results will improve your SEO and your writing in general when you use it properly.

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  • You Ask, I Answer: SEO Professionals Staying Ahead in AI?

    You Ask, I Answer: SEO Professionals Staying Ahead in AI?

    In today’s episode, Mary asks how SEO pros can stay ahead in an AI world. I explain using AI to improve your skills, then combining your strengths with AI to boost results. Critiquing content with AI reveals blind spots and creates superior outputs. Tune in to learn how partnering with AI can dramatically increase the quality and productivity of your work.

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    In today’s episode, Mary asks, “What advice would you have for SEO professionals and digital marketers who want to stay ahead in the AI-driven SEO landscape?” Use AI.

    Use AI as much as you can as a marketer, generative AI in particular, to figure out what you’re good at and what you’re not good at.

    Can you use a tool like DALI or StableDiffusion or Anthropix Cloud 2 or ChatGPT? Can you use these tools to make better stuff, to make faster stuff, to make stuff that satisfies your audience’s needs? At the end of the day, in SEO, what matters is are we satisfying user intent? What matters is, is our content better than the competitors? If you have someone who is unskilled at AI, making content, versus someone who is a skilled human writer, the unskilled person will make content faster, but it won’t be better.

    The skilled human writer will make content slower probably, but it will be better.

    What you want to do is figure out how do I get this skilled writer to start using AI and to skill up everybody who is using AI to generate better results, learn how to write better prompts, learn how to have better conversations with the computer.

    So that no matter where your skill level is, you can be more productive.

    One of the fascinating things that came out of the recent BCG study that was done with Harvard Business School was that they showed for knowledge workers, for consultants, they were able to achieve like a 43% increase in work quality from the bottom half of employees in terms of performance versus only 17% increase in productivity for the top half.

    Now granted, both are big numbers.

    Both are important, right? If you can get 70% more of anything positive, you’re probably pretty happy.

    But if you’re getting 43% more productivity out of your low performers, that is gigantic.

    That is huge.

    Every employee who works now in the digital market, in AI, in SEO, has the ability to use AI to get better at what they do, to improve the results of what they do dramatically.

    17 to 43% better results.

    So your first task as a human being in the AI driven SEO landscape is to get better at SEO, is to get better at digital marketing using generative AI tools.

    Use them to ideate, use them to brainstorm, use them to write, use them to fact check, use them to do gap analysis, use them to reflect the voice of the customer and critique your content.

    One of my favorite things to do is set up a customer persona in a tool like ChatGPT or Anthropocs Cloud 2 and say, “Here is who you’re going to be.

    You’re going to role play the persona of your ideal customer.

    Here’s my content.

    Critique it and tell me what parts I’ve done right to appeal to you, persona, and what parts I missed the boat on.” You will be surprised, very surprised, at how thorough the machines are, how correct and complete the machines are, and how many blind spots you have in your own content creation.

    I am consistently shocked when I see this.

    I’m like, “I can’t believe I forgot about that.

    I can’t believe I forgot about this thing that we know is important to the customer.” It would be like writing a blog post about spaghetti and meatballs and omitting sauce.

    Like, “Ah, I was so focused on the spaghetti part and the meatball part, I totally forgot the sauce part.” A good machine will say, “Hey, you forgot the sauce.

    Put the sauce in and it’ll be better.” That’s what these tools do, is they are really good at things like gap analysis as well as copy editing as well as proofreading, developmental editing, even saying, “Hey, how else would you write this? What else would you add to this? What did I miss? What could make this better? What could make it more compelling for my target persona?” Learn to use the tools to do that kind of work and your SEO efforts, your content marketing efforts, your digital marketing efforts will all be phenomenally better.

    You will be legendary in your circles for being able to create really good content with the assistance of AI.

    And note that we’re not talking about just letting AI do it all.

    We’re talking about you and AI working together to generate outputs that are better than either one of you would have generated individually.

    It’s the old cliche, what? Two plus two equals five.

    That’s what we’re talking about here.

    So that would be my advice.

    Use AI as much as you can for every task that you can within your workflow until you figure out the things it can’t do and the things it’s really good at.

    Thanks for the question.

    Talk to you soon.

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