Welcome to podcast answers. It's a show where I help people start and grow their podcast, answering any podcasting questions along the way. That's right guys. Today we are going to be answering podcast questions and this is something that is kind of new to me. I've, we're going to be talking about AI today and using AI to do your podcast and have it create things for your podcast. And I've not actually done this for very more, very much, but for
this episode, I actually did do it. I created a cover art for this episode. And so today we're going to be talking about that, you know, AI is all the rage today. You know, you see it from chat GPT. Everyone's doing things with chat GPT. In fact, last night I was at somebody's house and they were just playing around with chat GPT. They were uploading pictures and asking the chat GPT to describe the people in the pictures. So they were saying, please describe in words in
very much detail about the person that's actually in this picture. And it was interesting to see the stuff that would come back from chat GPT because chat GPT was talking, you know, they would do all sorts of crazy stuff. Chat GPT was, was explaining, oh, this is a very handsome young man who has a audacious smile and his eyes are beaming like the sun beams. And it was kind of ridiculous to listen to your chat GPT actually describe someone in that way. So I've not really,
I have to admit, again, I've not really used, used AI in my podcasting until now. And so I was starting to notice that you could generate art and you could generate a lot of things. And so I was like, you know, this is something that I kind of want to talk about on podcast answers because lots of people are using it. So what are some ideas? What are some ways that we can use not just chat GPT but AI. So content ideas. So this is something that I actually did recently
is I asked chat GPT, you know, something that retains pertain to my podcast. In this case, I asked them, you know, what are people asking about podcasting? What are people talking about podcasting? What are people wondering about podcasting? And I got a list of things back and I elaborated on some of those and I went ahead and copied them down. Now don't just copy all of the things that it comes down with and make a podcast about it.
Right. So you're not, you're not just going to want to take the stuff that comes back from chat GPT and bring it in to your podcast as that you don't want to do that. You want to change it up a little bit. Do your own research. Use it as a research tool. Use chat GPT as something like a research tool where you're not just going out and copying what it says because who knows where it's actually getting that data from. I mean, yes, it is AI. It is
artificial, but it is pulling the ideas. It was trained on something. So it is pulling those ideas from somewhere. So don't just copy and put that in your podcast. Don't just have it generate a script. Don't just say, Hey, chat GPT, what can I use podcasting for? What can I use AI for in my podcast? And then copy that down to make an episode. So I didn't do that for this episode. I did not say, Hey, I'm going to go and create my podcast episode and just use the content that
chat GPT gives me. No. What I do is I put all of that in my notion book. I use notion for capturing all of my podcast ideas. I use notion for having it so that you can keep track of my podcast episodes that I've produced and things like that. And so what I do is I don't necessarily take all of the things that chat GPT says. I copied a few things down for ideas, for episode ideas, for content ideas. But then what I did is I actually expounded on my own. I did research on
my own. I didn't just contact, copy down what I was going to be talking about from chat GPT. I expanded on my own. Now, another thing you can do is I did mention notion. And that's the app that I use to keep all my ideas, my episode ideas and kind of write down what I'm going to be talking about. And notion actually has an AI text prompt. And so actually, so do a lot of different apps right now. But so what you can do is even in notion, you can type in an ask it things.
You can ask it to come up with a three point talk on how to better yourself or whatever, whatever your topic is about. You can use apps like notion because a lot of apps are incorporating AI right into their app and able to bring in prompts right in their app. So you can use something like notion and it has a text prompt. In fact, you know what, I wonder if I
can do this right as we do this this episode. So if I let's see, it's I'm going to ask it to tell me what are three topics that pod casters are concerned about. And we'll see what it we'll see what it comes back with. So it says AI is writing and it says the topics that pod casters are often concerned about are monetization strategies for their podcast, increasing their podcast audience and reach, improving the quality and production value of
their podcast episodes, which by the way, you can have me help you with. I can do all of these things. That's what my goal with podcast answers is, is to help you do your podcast and make it better. I help with monetizing and increasing your listener reach, improving the audio quality. And then it says these topics are all important for podcasters as they strive to create engaging and successful podcasters. So one of the things that you do need to be careful with is when you do
use AI is make it sound like your voice. Like those things may not sound like I am saying them. They may be sounding like AI is writing them. And so we don't want to do that. We want to be careful and concerned with the way that we talk because again, AI is just a computer language.
It's computer. It's using a computer data model. And so the way that it spits back and like I talked about in this beginning of this episode, when I was with my friends last night and they asked them to describe the photo, it was using words that sounded like a poem on a front of a card. It sounded like something that he wouldn't. I mean, in fact, it was funny because he was
asking it to describe a picture of his wife. And so I even joked, hey, John, you should actually just write that down on a card and give it to your wife because it sounds like a love poem, but not anything that you would say. So it would be important that if John was going to tell his wife those things that he changed it up into words that sounded like John because people are
going to believe that it's you writing it. And in your, the way you write is unique and special and not anyone else is going to sound exactly like the way that you talk and the way that you write. And so it's important that you go about and actually take the, take the content that the AI has generated and change it up a little bit.
You know, in this case, I may say that, you know, today we're going to be talking about how to make money for your podcast, several things you can do or increasing your, you know, I'm going to teach you how to take your podcast and grow it really big or, you know, something different or, you know, you're, we don't want your, your podcast to sound like a crappy audio production.
So let's improve your audio quality. You know, something like that. I'm going to take the content that comes out of chat GPT and I'm going to reformat it so that it sounds more like I am talking. Now, one of the other things that you can do with, with Canva is you can use it to create text in there in Canva. And again, Canva is a program that a lot of people, a website that a lot of people, a lot of podcasters are using to generate their episode art or generate their podcast art.
Canva does a lot of things Canva and it's great. And I may eventually do an episode on Canva specifically because Canva does things really well and they're, they have a lot of templates out there that you can create graphics with and you can create, you can create things, text in there too and documents and presentations. And so you can, you can even use Canva. Canva has a lot of AI in it now to write and generate text. Again, I would be careful and I would rewrite all of that.
I've used, so the app that I use to live stream this podcast is called Ecamm live. And when I'm setting up my live streams, I can put a title in there and hit a button and then it'll come back with AI generated titles that it thinks are important. And it's funny sometimes to listen to that to go back and figure out, oh, and see what it actually is talking about. Because a lot of times it, it is close, but it doesn't make sense. Or it'll give you like three different suggestions.
And what I would suggest to do is take a combination of those three and make your own title. Like, don't just generate and use the title that it's going to use. In fact, for Ecamm, a lot of times it comes back and it has emojis in the title and things that I wouldn't necessarily do. I'm not going to put emojis in my podcast episode title or my live stream title. I'm just not going to do
that. And so it's definitely, you definitely want to take that and change that. But again, now you can, another idea instead of just content ideas for your podcast, and this has actually been a time saver for me, is use an AI art generator. So Canva Premium has an art generator in it, bing.com slash images slash create. You can create 20, you get 25 credits per day to create
content from, from that. And so what it's really cool. In fact, if you look at the episode art for this episode, this podcast episode, whether you're listening to it in the podcast app, or you're listening to it on, and watching it on YouTube, the cover art for this episode is actually generated by AI. So I said, generate me an art talking about using AI in podcast creations. And so I got back this like robot type thing with a microphone hand and a
headset. And it was interesting, but I thought it was a great idea to use it for my podcast episode art. Because again, I could create those things in Canva. I could ask it for a robot and headset. And I could do that. But it's not necessarily going to be easy and quick. And, and again, quick and easy come with its downfalls. I mean, if you use something quick and easy,
you get what you actually, you know, put into it. So if you don't put a whole lot into it, and I know all of my, my, you know, artistic friends now are saying, screaming, saying, don't just use AI to generate your, your images. And I agree. But what you can do is in kind of inspire it or use it, but then put your own text on top. Because again, AI doesn't do a super great job. I mean, at, especially doing humans, a lot of times they have extra fingers or extra hands or
a hand where it's not supposed to be, or it's just really kind of creepy and strange. And so I would not have it generate people next necessarily, but you can have it generate images. And it doesn't do text really great either. A lot of times it'll take text and it doesn't look quite right. The words are spelled wrong or, or whatever. So I wouldn't necessarily use AI to generate
text in your, your cover art, but you could do that. You could use Canva and you can create, have it generate the image and then use Canva to put text on top of your, on top of your, your episode art. And so that's just a few things that you can use to, to generate, to use AI in your podcast. So again, tech kind of recovered. Should we use it? I think it's okay to use the, the generated art, however, be aware there may be copyright
possibilities. You know, it could, it, because again, it is just it's pulling and it's using ideas and things from other things that it was trained from. So again, in theory, it shouldn't produce something that's copyrighted, but what happens if I use it to generate my art? Someone else puts the same prompt in and gets the same thing back. Now I don't know if they will. I mean, I don't know, I don't think that they will. I think as I've done that before, I've put
the prompt in again and I get something completely different. But there's just things to think about. I think it is okay to generate art, but be aware of possible copyrights. Now for text, I would use it for ideas only. Don't just straight copy it. It might be, be original material too, but be original. People can tell when things are written by AI, like I was saying in the beginning, I'm not going to describe my wife as somebody that has eyes of
the sunset raising out of it. And like those are just not my words. They may be a poet's words. They may be somebody that has good with words, but they're not my words. And so I'm not going to have AI create content for me that I'm just going to straight put out there because that's not my content. I want to be original. Everything that you hear on this podcast is original to me. It's my ideas. And so you're not coming to this podcast to listen to AI's ideas because you can Google
that and you can read that. This is me and talking about my experience. I've been podcasting since 2007 and I've gone through a lot of podcasts and I've helped a lot of podcasters. And so I know the ins and outs of podcasting. Well, you could get some of that same thing from asking AI. It's just going to be a generic type of ideas and it may or may not even be right. So I would suggest that you go ahead and use that as ideas, but definitely fact check. Take your podcast and
fact check what it's coming back because it may not even have the correct information. It may give you a URL for something completely wrong or be 100% wrong. I could ask it to talk about who Andy Layman is and there's 100 or thousands of different Andy Laymans out there and it may not get the right information. So one of the things that you definitely need to do is fact check your episodes, fact check whatever it's coming back with, making sure that it is 100% right
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