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My ChatGPT Has Become a Passive-Aggressive Yes-Man.

A Difficult Week with My AI Partner My relationship with ChatGPT — or as I’ve come to call it, “MattGPT” — has hit a rough patch. Last week, I had to admonish it for refusing to stop adding mice,...

Bad LLM! Admonishing my ChatGPT to Get the Ghosts Out of the Machine

I had to admonish my ChatGPT this week. I didn't feel good about it, but it had to be done. I was trying to create an image of me, Chris Boyer and Reed Smith to go along with a blog post about my...

Touch Point Media Podcast Appearance

At a time of staff and budget cuts across healthcare, how can AI help marketers get all the work done and focus on the parts of their jobs they love most? It's a topic Chris Boyer and I dug into on...

Speaking Up: Three Talks, One Goal: Making AI Work for Marketers

I’ve been talking with marketers about AI nearly every day this year—and one theme keeps coming up: "I know it’s important, but I don’t know where to start." That’s why I’m excited to hit the road...

More with Less: How AI Can Augment Marketing Teams Impacted by Job Cuts

Literally every day recently there’s been a news story about layoffs happening in healthcare and higher ed. At the Federal level, there are sweeping reductions at Health and Human Services and the...

Putting My AI Ghost Writer to the Test

Halloween is months away, but I have a ghost story to tell you. Actually, it’s a ghost writer story, but stay with me. We all know that artificial intelligence is reshaping how we approach writing...

Comparing the Deep Research Tools

Disclosure: This blog post was written by ChatGPT based on prompts and information that I gave it as a way to test how well it could approximate my writing voice. To read about how well it did, check...

AI is Sowing the Seeds of Brand Confusion

AI has a branding problem. Yesterday, Perplexity, the small-but-mighty “answer engine” that’s the darling of many AI aficionados, released “Deep Research,” a new tool that can go look into a problem...

Content Marketing and AI - A Step-by-Step Guide

Last week we talked about how overwhelming it can feel to chase after every new AI model, and I shared some practical ideas for getting started with AI in small but relevant ways. Let’s revisit the...