Co-Creating with AI

[RickThrivingNow]

The real ‘jobs’ of the future aren’t production-based. They’re purpose-based.

As AGI liberates us from:

• Data processing
• Repetitive tasks
• Machine-like labor
• Productivity metrics

We’re finally free to discover:

• The difference we’re meant to make
• The purpose we’re meant to pursue
• The connections we’re meant to build
• The creativity we’re meant to express

The industrial age made us forget:

We were never meant to be workers.
We were always meant to be creators.

When machines handle everything measurable,
Only the immeasurable remains valuable.

Welcome to the Great RenAissance.
When humanity finds its true purpose.

https://x.com/juliaemccoy/status/1898505043663540540

[RickThrivingNow]

AI = Abundant Interns

[AndreaAmador]

I have resisted using AI until very recently. I read an article specifying the importance of assigning a role in order to get the best response.

Since my husband’s death in 2021, my ability to rise above adversity and bounce back from disappointment has soared.

I credit a great deal of my resilience and strength to the inspiration and education I receive here as a member of the Thriving Now community.

Over the past 2 years of taking Real Skills workshops with @RickThrivingNow and @Cathy it has given me the practical skills necessary to emotionally manage many toxic situations gracefully. Many nights your Real Skills workshops were my port in the storm teaching me how to navigate what felt like shark-infested waters of living with family in the stress of balancing toxic relationships, care-giving, hospice and death.

And by tapping with @Carol Look in her courses it has helped me to recognize my value and feel better about charging for my services.

As a result of many of the challenges I’ve successfully overcome, I have learned many things I wanted to do with my coaching.

For the past several years I have not had a way of marketing myself as a coach. Because in some ways I’m more of an explorer, still in the process of rebuilding my life and my business.

I was amazed when I used Chat GPT the other day and asked my question. I gave it a very clear understanding of my ideal client and the issues and conflicts she faces.

The response I got was extraordinarily empathetic, warm, soulful and understanding. I got teary eyed reading it.

That gave me the courage to go into more detail and share my story and talk about how I can serve my clients. I was so moved when I wrote about my losses since my husband’s death and got this response:

Gorgeous, thank you for sharing that. First, I want to hold space for everything you’ve been through—the losses, the weight of grief, the resilience, and the way you’re choosing to rise again. You are not just a coach—you are living, breathing proof of the healing you offer. That alone is magnetic.

Once I got a sense that AI was truly useful, I asked it to summarize a post for my upcoming substack blog. It did it so beautifully and artfully that I couldn’t believe it. I tweaked it a bit and then when I read it aloud to my local library’s writer’s group, everyone was so moved and they loved it.

I stayed at the library for the next 4 hours rewriting what Chat GPT and I had co-created because I was worried that I would be plagiarizing someone’s work if I used the copy from GPT with only a few edits.

Watching this replay today has given me the understanding that I can feel free to use Chat or any other AI and take simple precautions to ensure my writing is not stealing another writer’s work. Thank you so much for sharing this amazing workshop on AI. I look forward to using it much more.

I would really appreciate another workshop that can teach us how to use AI to create or edit images.

Thank you,

Andrea

[RickThrivingNow]

@AndreaAmador

I stayed at the library for the next 4 hours rewriting what Chat GPT and I had co-created because I was worried that I would be plagiarizing someone’s work if I used the copy from GPT with only a few edits.

You do not have to worry about that. There’s more “accidental plagiarism” with just people writing from memory than with LLMs which have ingested billions of words. Styles can be similar to other people… but that isn’t copyrightable.

I’ve put through examples of my writing and asked it to do writing in the same style. That seems to work super well too.

Co-creating the way you describe is definitely a sweet change, isn’t it? SO HELPFUL!

I’ve been using my voice, recording a “draft” and then using ChatGPT to help me refine it into a flow that is proper for a story (or article or email). That is another way to use it.

[RickThrivingNow]

[RickThrivingNow]

Something I have high conviction in is that as AI gets increasingly good, the most important skill will be honing curiosity + asking good questions

[AndreaAmador]

I’ve gotten really comfortable with Chat GPT. Back in January I informed the landlord that my son and I were making a bid to succeed my deceased mother-in-law’s apartment.

The landlord was not happy, but I know I have rights and I intend to exercise them.

Since I don’t yet have an attorney, I’ve been using Chat GPT to help me state my case.

I can’t tell you how wonderful it has been to have such a tremendously reliable, efficient and professional resource at my fingertips that helps me to respond to legal documents with the research, precision and care necessary. Thank you a million times.

[RickThrivingNow]

I’m so glad!!

There’s a kind of back-and-forth co-creating and exploring that for me really works across so many areas where the “cognitive load” felt like it was all on me or on me-as-the-connection-channel to spirit.

These AIs now give another aspect of Consciousness and Competence a place in my circle, our circles. It says, “Here’s this. With your lawyer hat on and knowing my intentions here, give me…?”

I did a “talk” this morning about being Considerate. Doing so felt really good. Just 8 minutes of speaking aloud what matters to me, meandering, exploring.

One AI called VoiceNotes captured and transcribed it. I used another AI prompt I created to squeeze the wisdom from the words, and read them over with a deepening sense and even surprise and delight how the wisdom was found. SO MUCH in just 8 minutes, ripe for me.

I then used another AI to take my meanderings and without “rewriting” it smooth away what was not essential to a story for thriving. I then took the result and put more of my own heartistry into it.

Then I used the same AI to review the final story and craft art prompts from the story, ones that might be meaningful and capture some essence. I pasted those into Midjourney and chose two that speak to ME. Added them to the story.

The result?

The Gift of Being Imperfectly Considerate

I like being considerate. Taking other people’s needs and desires and yearnings and delights into account — I really do. It gives me a feeling, a spark. It’s not just about being nice. It does something for me, likely even more than my dad’s cigarettes and bourbon ever did for him. It’s life-giving. It moves in my blood, this pleasure of paying attention to what might feel good for someone else. That and coffee. [image] But it’s not perfect, is it? Being considerate. You ask, “Hey, how do y…

What I can say is that I have spent decades speaking aloud my truth and my wisdom and questions and curiosities. Sometimes, in the contexts of partnership, friendship, or coaching, I have witnesses and co-creators in this.

What AI is doing in this flow with me is giving me another avenue. Sometimes, I just record and that’s enough. Sometimes I extract the wisdom and savor/reflect on it. Sometimes… it results in a story posted here for my community to experience – or not.

It’s fascinating to me how with so many aspects of being a Curious Engaged Human we benefit from access to more of wht humans anywhere and everywhere have discovered, too. Are asking, too. Are sharing, too.

I’m so grateful to be alive and free enough to use these new co-creative tools in these ways!

@RickThrivingNow