I wrote yesterday about how to plan and extend my campaigning work. That post attracted quite a lot of interest.
What occurred to me after producing that post was that one of the easiest ways for my message to be amplified is to ask others to share what I am saying by quite literally amplifying my message in social media, but with tailor-made reposts, comments and even derivative articles or letters rather than simple retweets, likes or whatever.
It's my opinion that AI can really help this process and most people now have access to those, whether via Google Gemini, Microsoft CoPilot, or ChatGPT versions 4.0 or 5.0.
This might sound intimidating. It isn't. AI is a tool, and is one that can help anyone who wants to campaign, write, or communicate more clearly. Used with care, it can save time, and help you share your ideas.
So, my question is, would it help if I produced a short series on how to use AI for this purpose? The aim would be to:
1. Explain how AI works .
2. Explain how to write an AI prompt.
3. Work through the development of a prompt campaignmers might use to, for example:
- Write an X or Bluesky post or thread;
- Write a Facebook, LinkedIn or Subtack post, or
- Write a letter on an issue.
4. Explain how to refine the prompts overtime, using AI itself to assist this process .
Let me know.
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Yes I think that would be a great help to explain how to magnify your message on social media by using AI
Thanks.
Yes please! And engaging in such exercises might also have the benefit of consolidating my understanding of those areas of economics you often touch upon and which sometimes leave me a little confused- bonds and gilts come to mind- areas with which you have a whole careers worth of experience whilst I much less so!
Noted.
Yes indeed….let’s build this thing!
Yes please!
Absolutely yes
Yes!
Yes. Please do. A practical guide to getting usable material from AI would be of broad general value to your readers, not just for campaigning. Your blog soon after Chat GPT’s launch, showing its authoritatively phrased history of a non-existent East Anglian railway, was a valuable warning about AI hallucination, and now I assume anything written in ChatGpT’s distinctive style is wrong, unless it is something I already know anyway. So, being able to write coherent English unassisted, I have avoided using it. However, the blogs you declare to be directed and edited AI do not seem to be of lower quality than the ones you do all by yourself, so you must have useful insights to teach us all.
It takes effort to make it work, I promise you.
I will be concentrating on producing short pieces.
I think it could be extremely helpful especially in HOW to deliver the message more effectively and personally.
The more you look at how mis and disinformation is used, they fuel survival bias with false positives. It gives people the easiest and safest way to make a decision, especially when counter to their benefit. So any new/science based fact can be muted with fear of failure this would take away everything they already have. Like walking in the woods at dusk with a friend and they yell “snake!” every time you see a stick. Better to always think snake than stick. I have been using AI to understand how to better position what really is the snake. For example when people give disinformation on coal here in the US, I have learned to leverage “Pick which plant we will open a mile from you; coal, nuclear, wind; Which affects you the least?”. I usually get silence or a version of build it in isolation.
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Yes that would be helpful. I am a bit afraid of it!
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“Write a letter on an issue.”
Overall I agree. Just a note of warning: the letters may have similar styles, A.I. is nothing if not unoriginal in the way it expresses things. In turn this can lead to e.g. politicos, ignoring the letter as yet another A.I. generated piece of dross (in his/her view).
Just saying.
I can never get it to repeat itself.
And I have tried.