$30M Writer: Never write AI slop again
Nicolas Cole, a writer who has made $30M online, joins Greg Isenberg to explain why AI content fails and how to build a writing style competitors cannot copy.
The gist
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Generic advice has little lasting value, but content built from your own stories and opinions cannot be replicated by AI models.
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Build a file or vault of your experiences and perspectives so AI remixes your approved language rather than guessing your voice.
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Use AI to repost and reformat your existing ideas across platforms, saving your limited time for thinking up genuinely new ones.
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Separate timely content, which may go viral for 24 hours, from timeless content you can reuse for years, and match your effort to that horizon.
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