Robots to the Rescue: How AI Can Help Freelancers Land More Clients

Brian Hood (0:00)

This is the 6 Figure Creative Podcast, Episode 240

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Welcome to the 6 Figure Creative Podcast. I'm your host, Brian Hood. If this is your first time listening to the show right now, you've picked a hell of a show to join us on. This is going to be a doozy of an episode today. Before I even get into the episode today, this show is all for creatives and freelancers who are trying to make a living, preferably 6 figures, or more from your income, and you want to do it without selling your soul.

So with that out of the way, let's talk about the real thing that you're here for today, and something that I've been putting off talking about because I didn't feel quite ready to talk about it yet, but AI is all the rage right now. With Chat GPT, you've seen it everywhere. I didn't want to be another person to beat a dead horse with information that you can get anywhere else. That's not the thing that I wanted to talk about today, but it is inevitable that we bring this up in the show today because it affects us as freelancers so much. And Chat GPT in particular is what I'm going to talk about today. Now, it's Chat GPT today. It could be Bard tomorrow, which is Google's thing. It could be whatever other thing rolls out a year from now. It doesn't really matter which specific platform it is. It's all about AI and how it's going to affect our lives and businesses as creatives and freelancers. And I've seen two prevailing things so far in my research and just existing on the internet in the last month or so as like this whole AI thing's blown up. The first thing I see is 22-year-old kids who are making videos on YouTube about how you can make an extra two to three grand a month using Chat GPT as a freelancer or as a business owner. And so they're basically trying to take advantage and in some way monetize and in a lot of ways, put beliefs into people's heads that they can just use Chat GPT to make a bunch of money right now, which may be the case, but that's not really my angle today. And that's not really the angle I wanted to bring to any of you today. The second thing I see on the internet right now is people fear mongering around AI and Chat GPT and how it's going to take our jobs away. They took our jerbs.

That's another prevailing thing that I see everywhere, and I don't want to add to that conversation. Yes, it will change things. Yes, it will probably hurt some people in some areas, but I don't think it's going to destroy our entire creative freelance industry. That's just not my belief. And today, I actually want to talk about hopefully a refreshing change, something about positivity for once. And also this is coming from a place of what I would consider admitted ignorance.

There's something called the Dunning-Kruger effect, and I've seen all of the place right now when it comes to AI and ChatGPT in particular.

People who know less about something feel like they know way too much about it, and they will start posing themselves as experts for AI, which ChatGPT's been out at the time I recorded this, two months, they just hit 100 million users or just surpassed 100 million users, which is insane for something that's been out for two months from zero to 100 million users in two months, insane. But in that time, you're not an expert. At best, you've put a couple hundred hours into it, or at worst, you put 15 or 20 hours into it, or like a lot of you watching right now or listening right now, if you're on YouTube, let me know, leave a comment. You are just dabbling around with it. It's a fun new novelty that you can just play around with. You can get it to write screenplays for you. You can get it to write funny jokes, which I'll maybe at the end of this episode I'll read one about freelancers who don't have clients. The Chat GPT wrote for me. It's actually kind of funny and stupid. But I've put enough hours into Chat GPT in the last couple months to where I know enough about it to know that I don't know anything about it.