I was recently asked, “How do we get off of AI,” like it is something you can just log out of. Well, you can’t. But what we can do is learn about it, keep talking about it, encourage critical thinking, ask good questions, find out ways it can be helpful, and use it with an open mind and a but of healthy skepticism because it’s part of everything now.
AI isn’t just ChatGPT anymore. The tools we’ve been using forever, like Office, Adobe, social media platforms, Constant Contact, and Canva, all have AI baked in now.
People are starting to pick their preferred assistant, similar to the way we choose a friend we click with. Some like Gemini, others Copilot, Claude, or Perplexity.
Users are finding AI helpful for articulating and organizing ideas, editing and polishing writing, planning, research, and problem solving. Professors who once banned it now allow it with rules. Medical teams use it for documentation and communication.
The other shift that is happening is on the human side.
We are starting to find a balance between usefulness and overuse.
Brands that want to stay credible must stay grounded in authenticity by avoiding “AI Slop”:
- low‑quality, auto‑generated content
- no voice or originality
- repetitive phrasing
- images or videos that feel fake or manipulative
Humans are finding that writing and creating with AI still requires them to take the lead and that AI works best as a collaborator, not the author.
Here are some of my favorite ways to collaborate with AI:
For writing ask AI to:
- Polish, lightly edit, check for typos
- Make it funnier or More casual tone, More professional
- Shorten
- Remove em dashes and emojis
- Give 10 choices
- Translate into another language (then have a human proof it)
- Turn it into a press release
Best rule of thumb: feed your copy into AI and let it help you edit and polish. Use it like a thesaurus for sentences and paragraphs, start with your own thoughts, ideas, and facts.
My favorite directions for using AI to search or provide answers:
- Before you generate a response, ask me a few questions
- Help me analyze this, organize this, understand this, compare this
- Help me create an excel sheet that does ______
- Explain it to me like I’m 14
- Give me the source and link
- Find coupon codes for _______
- How do I ask you to _________
As AI continues to evolve and humans learn how it adds and takes away from our experience, it’s alway important to remember that AI Will Never Replace your:
- Creativity
- Expertise
- Experience
- Human collaboration
- Relationships
- Critical thinking
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