The Biggest Mistake Creators Will Make With AI

Don’t Outsource Creativity to AI

AI can help with direction, research, and feedback, but your voice still matters.

I’ve been thinking a lot about AI lately.

There’s people completely against it, people completely for it, and then there’s people letting AI basically take over their lives and make every decision for them. I’m somewhere in the middle.

And obviously, I’m speaking from my own little bubble here, as a content creator and a stay-at-home dad trying to make it online by creating content.

AI can do some amazing things for people like us.

Research topics,

Come up with video angles,

Titles,

Subtitles,

Hooks,

Brainstorming,

The whole thing.

And honestly, I think relying on AI for research and brainstorming is probably a really good idea.

I also don’t think most people fully understand what AI is capable of yet. We’re still discovering things. It’s still evolving constantly. But there’s one thing I think people should be careful with: creativity.

Now obviously AI can make music, write poems, paint pictures, write stories, all of that. But sometimes, when you already have an idea or a direction in your head, and you try to get AI to develop that vision for you, it can actually become frustrating.

Because at some point, you realize it’s not really creating for you. A lot of the time, it’s just remixing what you already told it. And I think that’s where people need to be careful.

Yes, ask questions. Yes, brainstorm. Yes, ask for feedback and direction.

But when it comes to showing your vision of the world, your perspective, your side of the story, I still think you should push yourself to actually say what you feel.

Write what you want to write. Draw what you want to draw. Make the thing you want to make.

Even if it’s not perfect.

I think we’re getting a little lazy when it comes to doing the work. What we should be doing is figuring out what actually wastes time, and letting AI help with that, while still doing the parts that matter ourselves.

Today I actually went through this exact struggle.

I already had a video idea. What I wanted from AI was help finding the best angle for the video, the best way to approach the topic so people would actually want to click and watch. And honestly, AI helped a lot with that.

It gave me a solid hook and a direction. That’s all I really needed. From there, I could either finish the script myself or just freestyle the video naturally.

But then I decided to ask AI to fully write the script for me. And that’s where things started falling apart.

Part of it was technical issues. I was using the voice interface and it wasn’t properly transferring things to the text interface, which got frustrating fast.

I actually made a video about the whole experience and I’ll link it below.

But the bigger issue was this: I realized I was trying to get AI to be creative for me, and I think that was the mistake.

Because all it really did was take the thoughts and feelings I already had and repeat them back in different words. Technically, that’s useful.

But it wasn’t what I wanted.

So eventually I gave up on that part and went back to using AI for what it was actually helping me with:

the hook, the angle, the direction.

Then I took over from there.

I started thinking:

“How can I develop this further?”

“How can I make this interesting?”

And honestly, I think what I came up with was better than the versions AI gave me. What I’m trying to say is this:

There are absolutely things AI can do better than us, faster than us, more efficiently than us.

And if it saves us time, money, or mental energy so we can spend more time with our families or doing things that matter to us, that’s amazing. But I also think people expect AI to be perfect in a way it simply isn’t.

At least not yet. So I guess my advice to creators would be: don’t outsource creativity to AI.

Use it for feedback.

Use it for brainstorming.

Use it for research.

Use it to save time.

And once you’ve made something, sure, ask AI what it thinks. But I still think the creative part should come from you.

If you want to check out the video I made about this whole experience, I’ll leave the link below.

When AI(chat gpt) and I have an ... https://vt.tiktok.com/ZS9TRqkNT/