Gary’s Q&A

Listener question & Gary’s response · Transcript passage

Ayo Abíólá asks, would you use AI like ChatGPT to just draft the script in a second? If you did, has it made this venture easier?

There has been a lot of talk about AI within the podcasting world. While I recognize there might be some use for AI, literally creating entire scripts just isn’t possible. Just for the heck of it, I actually tried to get several AI systems to write a script, and the results were horrible. If I actually tried to release something totally written by AI, people would stop listening. Moreover, a great deal of what I’ve seen is simply factually incorrect. You’d still have to fact-check everything, which is difficult enough when you aren’t using AI.

That being said, there are two things I have found AI useful for. The first is creating images for episode artwork. The second is to create an outline of major points for topics that are extremely broad. Trying to summarize some topics into 10 to 12 minutes is extremely difficult, and it can be helpful to help summarize.

Once it lists the major points, however, It’s up to me to make sense of it, and write and research the episode.