Don’t let AI write speeches…

Don’t let AI write your speeches.

Because when you do, you lose some really important parts to the process.

It’s always tempting to take a piece of software and use it to be more productive.

We’re human after all, and if we can find a route to convenience then we will probably take it.

But when you do get AI to write your speeches, it’s a disservice on many levels.

To your audience.

To your content.

And to yourself.

I’m not opposed to AI - in fact I use it most days to help me with my ideas and my productivity, and to transcribe my words.

I just make sure that it doesn’t replace my voice.

The bits that make me, me.

The parts that people connect with.

You can spot AI generated speeches at 49.99 feet*.

It’s littered with rules of three.

Peppered with comparison.

And steeped in alliteration.

Look mate, all of those things are important rhetorical vehicles and help you to create really great content.

But you can have too much of a good thing.

AI is always trying to make you happy.

To tell you that all of your ideas are good (even that one about a nut free peanut butter).

And it’s always trying to find the most efficient way to get from A to B.

Sometimes in my speeches I don’t want efficiency.

I want it to be a bit clunky.

To be human.

You only get that when you write it yourself.

Getting AI to write your speeches means that you don’t connect with your material and that will show.

People will feel it when you speak.

And if all that above doesn’t convince you to get writing, perhaps this last point will help to push you over the line.

Using AI denies you the process of growth.

There is something both magical and painfully wank about a speech not making sense.

Transitions don’t work.

You pull out what little hair you’ve got.

And you wonder why the hell you signed up for the bloody thing.

Then.

It.

Clicks.

And.

Makes.

Sense.

And you feel connected to it in a way that doesn’t happen with an amazing prompt in chatmcthing.

*Or 20 paces in old money