The AI Boom Made Average People More Interesting
The AI boom has made it easier for average people to start conversations with influential individuals, such as state representatives and authors. This is likely due to the fact that human communication has become rare enough to stand out in a world where many people are outsourcing their voice to AI. As a result, being genuinely human has become a competitive advantage in communication.
- ▪The author has been able to start conversations with people they could never reliably reach before, including state representatives and authors.
- ▪The author's success rate in starting conversations has increased significantly over the past year.
- ▪The rise of AI has made human communication rare enough to stand out and be noticed.
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Anybody else noticing this? As an average person, I’m not complaining.I still worry about the long-term cost of genuine human creativity being drowned out by synthetic noise. But there’s been one surprising upside. Over the past year, I’ve been able to start actual, ongoing conversations, often just by sending an email or making a phone call, with people I could never reliably reach before:State representativesVPs of engineering organizationsAuthors and bloggersJournalistsEuropean lawmakersRandom experts who share similar interestsI spent the better part of the last decade trying to start conversations like these. My success rate felt like an anecdotal 2%.
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