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All right, so I'm going to check and see if
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I can do a real-time, create a real-time article with Bonsai.
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So bonsai.news, on the very top of the screen when
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you go there, it says, Meet Bonsai, your AI journalist.
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Talk about your life or work. Bonsai asks the questions
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and writes your story. You own your content. and can
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take it anywhere you like. So I'm gonna test that
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right now. I'm gonna hit this mic here. It's gonna
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cue up Banzai. And I'm gonna see if I can
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get it on the big, the main speakers in the
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car here so that it can.
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Welcome back, Etaquilibrium LLC.
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I see your Capiguera Capuera piece is finished and only
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you can read it.
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Want to change anything in it, start something new, or
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pull up another of your stories?
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It says the phone. Okay. Um... Yeah, I mean... I
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would like to start a new... a new story. A
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new story?
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Outside of your mind?
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Well, I'd like to talk about how Bonsai is basically
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helping me to create lots of content at a very
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rapid pace. Go on.
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What's that like for.
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You? So, I have... So, yesterday... is when I found
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out about Bonsai. And so yesterday was, well, technically two
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days ago now, if we're going to go by the
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calendar date, because it was actually on the 6th. It's
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now the 8th of November because it just passed midnight.
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It's 20 past midnight right now. So on the 6th
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of November, I found out about Bonsai and I created
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about nine different news articles, according to what Banzai says, that,
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you know, talk about your life or work, Banzai asks
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the questions, and writes your story, you own the content,
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because it's us, it's me as a human, basically, being
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interviewed by the AI journalist, and you're creating the content
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based on what I say, it's a great service, so,
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I just want to go back into how, you know,
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how rapid fire I've been able to do this. And
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I want to compare this to something that I thought
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was promising, and I think it's a really great idea.
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And I want to compare and juxtapose it with Banzai.
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And that's a platform that is called, that is called,
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that it was, so it was founded by the gentleman,
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I think his name is Kenny, something Katzgrau, who founded
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something Broad Street I think it is and it's a
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news site media site in New Jersey called Red Bank Green.
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And there was something called called Play I don't remember
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right now I don't know what's why I'm blanking on
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this right now but it was supposed to be able
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to have you be like a, you know, a person
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on the street.
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You know, you can talk about a story and then
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you can take some photos and you can upload it
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directly to your blog. It's a, it's a, Oh, it's
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called party line. That's what it's called. Party line. And
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you can basically upload a field blog directly from your
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mobile device. I did a couple of them. I mean,
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I think it's great because it's, it's human centered. You
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take the photos on the scene, you upload them to
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the blog. with some text. It even has a feature
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where there's an AI plug-in where you can have the
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AI help organize your writing and things like that. I
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haven't been able to use it or else I would
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have given it a try. But it seemed like a
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really rapid fire way for me to get blogs up
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onto my website as quickly as I've been making podcasts
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because I've been making podcasts simply by speaking into my
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recorder and getting the transcripts from Galaxy AI and using
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those to create the metadata packages for podcast blogs and
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social media posts and but there were some things that
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were a little bit clunky about it and it you
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know it required me doing other stuff which you know
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I'm very busy right now I drive
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a lot I'm
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even driving right now and so one of the most
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accessible ways for me to create media is by speaking
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so I'm going to pause right now so you can
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process that but that's where I am so far that's
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what I want to talk about.
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Okay, I'm with you. Let me just think this through.
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You've already got the bones of a good news story here.
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The contrast between how Bonsai lets you create quickly by
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talking and Partyline's more hands-on approach with photos and text.
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I'd love to hear a concrete example. What's one moment
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when one of those really fit into your day and worked?
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So when I first found out about PartyLine, I mean,
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I thought it was an excellent idea because I've always
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thought that I should be able to easily blog from
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my mobile device. And I really still can. I can
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create a lot of text. And basically, one of the
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ways that I've been able to do that really easily
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is by dictating my voice into my mobile device as before,
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taking that transcript and having it be edited and summarized by...
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you know, AI systems like either deep seek or Google
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Gemini and then copying and pasting that into the field
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of the, you know, the party line upload and then
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put uploading a photo and then, you know, clicking publish
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and it instantly gets onto the, the, the blog and
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I can embed podcasts in there. And, you know, there's
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so many things I can do. I think I need
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to practice with a little bit more, but that was
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really good. I actually did a couple of stories with it. Like, Um,
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out in Pungo, I found that there was a little
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toy library and I did a story with that. That's
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up on, you know, uh, I think it's on, uh, monarchcitybuzz.com.
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So it, it has its utility and I, and I
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really want to integrate it really is what I'm, I
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want to focus on to here is just that it's
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simpler and much more accessible for me to be able
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to speak a lot of the stories into existence through, um,
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what I'm interfacing with now, which is Banzai, the AI journalist.
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It just simply, it's something that I've been really, it's very,
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how should I say, serendipitous for me. Because, you know,
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I'm a big fan of technology and especially artificial intelligence.
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And especially because, you know, TV shows like Knight Rider,
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like I'm driving my car right now and I'm talking
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to a large language model. and, and this is, that's great,
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I mean, it's, it's like me being with Kit, the
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Night Industries 2000 from Knight Rider, you know, or being inside, like, Bumblebee, or,
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or Optimus Prime, you know, and it's a vehicle that's
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speaking to me, and I'm getting things done, so, and,
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and it's being productive, so it's, it's, it's a really,
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a really, uh, great advance for me. Everyone's different. I mean,
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there are people who don't have cars and who will
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be walking around with their device and taking photos and
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they can speak and dictate and transcribe and upload that stuff.
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And that would be better for them to do. I'm
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just saying simply that at this point, using Banzai to
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speak my content into existence is, you know, a really, really,
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really accessible approach to for me, I'm just really enjoying it,
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I'm not bashing Party Line, I want to make that clear,
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I think that it has great value, and especially how
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human-centered it is, it's just that, you know, right now,
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with the way that I create, it's been simpler to
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do with Banzai at this point, I mean, another thing,
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an example is that, I said this already, but on
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the first day that I used bonsai i created nine
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different articles and i was quite impressed with how close
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and almost exactly to my voice just used my own
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words and and then today i mean i've created another
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half dozen or so and including this one now which
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i'm testing and recording on my galaxy as well
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audio to be able to basically show this as a
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proof of concept.
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What's the part of PartyLine's flow that felt clunky to you?
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Well, one of the things is that I continually have
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to keep on signing in to each individual website account.
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Like sometimes you stay signed in for a while, but
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then I have to keep signing in and it gets
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kind of tedious when I'm on the run and I'm
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attempting to upload stories or do things while they're happening.
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You know, like I'll see something happening out in the
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street and I go out and I take some photos
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and then I talk about a little bit and I'm
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ready to upload and then I can't do it. It's
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not as accessible because I'm in my car a lot.
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My hands are full and I'm moving around and doing
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different things. And so it becomes a little bit cumbersome.
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And again, it's a great tool. I feel like I
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just need to work with a little bit more and
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figure out like just organize better my passwords for everything. And,
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you know, because I really still want to use it.
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I mean, I think it's great. The other thing is
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that the way that the photos upload, at least from
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my Android device, I don't really like the way that
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they come out. It's probably better just to only use
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one photo in each story instead of more than one
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because just the way that they get organized, it's difficult
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to put them together into a gallery. Although that might
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be something I just have to figure out. You know, it's...
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I don't know. I just... There's a little bit more
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I probably have to play around with. But I... What
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I'm really looking for is how I can create published
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and polished... Polished published content. You know, just speaking it
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into existence. Which is something I've been working on for
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a while with a system that I'm calling. It's not
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a new system. It's something that I've found other people
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have done. But with human... assistance and human secretaries and
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things like that but I'm calling it dictation transcription and
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summarization I could easily call it dictation transcription publication I
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don't know but it's DTS right now and I've covered
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that before you can look into the other logs of
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the many news articles that I've produced here with Banzai
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so far and see that I've covered that in depth.
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Okay Let me piece together what you've said. I hear you.
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This isn't about dismissing PartyLine. It's you recognizing that speaking
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fits the way you work. Driving a lot, moving. So
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a voice-first tool feels natural. You tried PartyLine to post
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from the field, like the little toy library in Pungo,
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but the repeated logins and messy photo layout slowed you down. Meanwhile,
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with Bonsai, you spoke and saw your words become articles
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that felt true to your voice, and that feels like
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a better fit for you. I couldn't pull up those
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earlier logs just now, but there's enough here for a
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focused piece. How Partyline lets you report with photos from
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the street, while Bonsai meshes with the hours you spend driving,
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and lets you build a story by speaking, without dismissing either.
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Want me to write that now?
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Not just yet. Not just yet. My question is, what
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do you mean that you haven't been able to pull
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up my previous logs? There's a published article in my
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feed in which I specifically talk about party line. So,
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for example, there's an article that says that I believe
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that bonsai is the future of blogging. And then there's
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another related one about bonsai as well and how So
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I need you to look at that again and see
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if you can find my previous publications that reference my,
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and also other ones that just simply reference dictation, transcription, summarization.
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I'm sure that, you know, that's part of my one
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person enterprise talks as well. I mean, it's all
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So what can you find? Okay.
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I see the piece about fitting bonsai into your driving life.
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In terms of that being published pieces, I want to
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treat that carefully. For now, we've got what you've told me.
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Party Line felt clunky, even though it helped you post
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that Pungo Toy Library story. And Banzai let you speak
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and get something that felt like your voice. That's a
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real contrast to build this new piece around.
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Okay, but what do you mean you want to treat
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the other content carefully? You're right.
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I was too quick there. I do see your published
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pieces about Bonsai being the future of blogging and fitting
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it into your driving hours. I don't have the exact
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passage about Party Line in front of me yet, so
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I won't pretend I've read it, but your memory of
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it fills that gap. And no new piece is being
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written yet. You asked me to check those first, so
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I am. Okay. What I'm noticing is you've got two modes.
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Party Line for... photo-driven stories like that pungo one, and
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bonsai for when you're in motion. Then there's that tension
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between what you wish Party Line felt like and how
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naturally bonsai fits your day. Is that the right way
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to frame this?
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Well, it's more like that I... Not that what I
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wish Party Line felt like, but I... feel like I
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probably need more practice to work with it. It's not
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as intuitive as simply speaking. I gave various examples before
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and other things with my dictation transcription summarization method of
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how Earl Stanley Gardner created 40 novels in 20 years
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by dictating to a room full of secretaries, how Dan
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Kennedy created many books by taking his recordings and having
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his team edit and publish those books. and how L.
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Ron Hubbard, who created Dianetics and Scientology, also took a
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lot of recordings and speeches and had his minions, I
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call them, edit and publish those into books. And now
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I'm just doing a modern version of that in which
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I'm using a team of AI assistants to edit and
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help me to organize my transcripts into published works.
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Got it. I'll just think that through. Thanks for clarifying.
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I think it's less about party line feels and more
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that it takes practice while speaking to Bonsai feels more
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intuitive for you. And you're linking your dictation approach to
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those earlier models you admire, like Gardner or Kennedy, then
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bringing it into your own setup with AI organizing the transcript.
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I should flag that the Hubbard example hasn't been confirmed here.
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So I'd just leave that as your understanding rather than
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as fact. What I hear is you own this craft
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of using your voice to make work, and Bonsai meets
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you in motion in a way the other tools don't.
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That feels like the heart of it. Do you want
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me to write that now, or keep going on how
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your dictation, transcription, and summarization setup fits alongside that?
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Well, one more thing I'd like to add is how
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I went through various different iterations of using AI to write.
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So I found a tool from Designer. This is a
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software in Designer, D-E-S-I-G-N-R-R dot I-O. And within Designer, within
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that suite of software, there's an AI writing tool called
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Word Genie. And I've done different variations. Like, for example,
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I've used Word Genie to create an entire book from it.
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And I've done that dozens of times to see what
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the output was like until I started noticing patterns of
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which I call AI slop. Then I've done hybrids where
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I've had it create work for me and then I
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heavily edited the work and basically just replaced things and
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took out as much of the AI slop I could find.
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Then I.
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Moved completely over more to the dictation level where instead
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of having it write something and me edit it I
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just spoke my own words and then
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edit the work for me so before it was just
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let AI do it then it was let AI do
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it and then I heavily edit it then it was
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I'm going to speak it and have AI edit everything
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for me but then it was getting too flattened and
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too polished and started to sound more like when AI
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would just write it completely So then the final iteration
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I finally got to was where I'm speaking and instructing
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the AI not to change my voice, to basically publish
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what I'm speaking verbatim, but just cleaning it up for
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when I stutter, when I repeat, and to punctuate it
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as much as it possibly can for a spontaneous spoken
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stream of consciousness. And so when I've done that, it became...
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more true to my voice. And when I was reading
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back the things that I've created like that, which the
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first project I did like that is called a story
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that I have on worldreadingclub.com that is titled, This Section
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Concerns the Selection of the Interrogator, featuring my character, Corota.
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And when I was reading it back, I thought to myself, wow,
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this is exactly what it should be. This is my voice.
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This is how I sound. This is how I speak.
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And so I'm going to continue writing the series like that.
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And then no sooner did I do that, I published that.
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Then all of a sudden, I found Banzai. There was
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an ad, I think it was either on Facebook or Instagram.
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And then for some reason, I just felt really compelled
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to use it. And like I said, on the first day,
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I created nine different articles. And when I started reading
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them back, it reminded me of the final stage that
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I got to in my dictation transcription summarization method, in
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which I was basically just using my transcripts verbatim, except
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for having them cleaned up for clarity and not restylizing
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them or anything else.
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Let me think with you a second. That helps a lot.
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It sounds like you tested straight AI-written books, then heavy edits,
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then dictating your own words and asking the AI not
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to restyle, just clean it up. The Corota piece showed
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you that that approach kept your voice, and then Banzai
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gave you that experience faster. I'd write the comparison with
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that progression as it's fine. If you're ready, I can
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write it now.
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Well, just a moment. We've got to clarify. Bonsai gives
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me that experience, but within certain confines because it's bonsai.news
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and it's an AI journalist. Like you're interviewing me now
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and you're writing these stories in my own voice. So
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it doesn't have as much creative leeway and freedom as
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I would with my own dictation system in which the
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transcripts are basically being published verbatim. because there's a lot
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of things that you, the AI system does that you flag,
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like you did earlier with the L Ron Hubbard thing
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and saying it hasn't been confirmed. So you're going to
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make sure the language doesn't reflect me saying that's a
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fact or something like that. Whereas when I do it myself,
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there's no such flagging. There's no such, there's, there's no
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friction at all. I can basically say anything I want. And,
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you know, and especially in a podcast, like a recording,
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like I'm recording this as audio as well, so people
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can hear my voice, and they can hear you, Banzai's,
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the AI voice, and so people will be able to
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hear nuances that they might not pick up on paper, and,
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or from reading, when I say paper, I mean, you know, reading,
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where this is, and also, if Banzai.news, you're operating like
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a news site, so you have to do some fact-checking
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before you write, so... want to make that clear that
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there's a little bit of a nuance there.
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Thanks for correcting that. I'm thinking about that. You're right.
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That's an important distinction. I overstated how similar they are. Here,
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you're speaking with a
journalistic frame that can flag facts.
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In your own setup, you can keep your words almost verbatim.
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You want to preserve that freedom and and the sound
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of your voice, while still seeing what Bonsai makes possible
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in a different way. I can keep that tension at
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the center if you write this comparison. That's enough to
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stand as a focus piece if you want it.
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Let's go with that.
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Got it. I'll start writing that now.
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All right, so Bonsai is writing this article now. On
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my screen, I can see it's starting to populate, and
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I'm just waiting for that right now.
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You're right to pause there. I wasn't able to start
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that writing just now. What's in your Bonsai space isn't
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a new draft yet. Nothing is lost, though. The new
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topic and what you've said are here. When you're ready,
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I can try again.
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Yeah, let's go ahead and try again.
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Sure, but trying again now. I do have the comparison clear,
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and your correction about creative freedom, but I can't start
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the writing just now, even after trying again, so nothing
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new is being written yet. The new topic and everything
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you've said are still here, though. We can keep moving
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with this conversation, and I can try again when you ask.
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Well, then I'm going to ask for you to try
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again immediately. I think that we should keep going until
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we get something finished.
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You're right to push for that. Thank you. I tried again,
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and I can't confirm that the writing actually started. So
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I was mistaken in how I described what you were
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seeing earlier. I can't account for your screen and the
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status check didn't come back. So I'm not going to
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send another writing request until we can confirm whether the
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story is already underway. I did just check again for
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an existing draft and tried the writing request again, but
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it still didn't start. I know you want to see
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this through, so I won't tell you it's being written
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when the request is failing.
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Yeah, I can. I can see that. All right. I'm
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going to pause for a second. Welcome back, Uniquilibrium.
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I see your Capoeira piece from today is still private.
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Want to change anything in it, start something new, or
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pull up another of your stories?
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Well, I want to see what's going on now with
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the piece that I was doing the comparison with Party Line. Okay.
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I hear you.
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Some of the background on that has just come in.
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Okay. The party line related article, yeah?
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Hang on, I'm checking it.
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Yeah, I don't see anything in the back office about that,
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you know, where it shows there's, you know, notifications. Let
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me see, I'm going to click on your stories and.
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Thanks for waiting.
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Your piece about speaking stories into existence is written and
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it's still private. What would you like to do next?
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take a look at that one, start something new, or
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pull up another story.
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Well, it's saying it's writing it. It's not... Okay, so
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I'm looking at it now. It does look like it's private.
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The title says, I drive a lot, so I'm speaking
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my stories into existence. And... Let's see. Party line lets
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me post photos from the street, but logins slow me down.
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Talking to an AI journalist fits the hours I spend
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behind the wheel. All right, everything looks good so far.
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The article looks like it's full and complete. There's a
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lot of content here. But what I want to do
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right now is fix one thing, which is representation. So remember,
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if you go into what Bonsai knows about me, there's
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a description of me that I would like you to
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change the image here that has been created. So first,
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can you tell me What it is that you know
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about me. About how I look. And then can you
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incorporate that into.
Changing the image that we currently have. Okay.
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Let me take a look at that.
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And get back to me. Tell me what you're looking at.
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Find it. Really. I'm talking about representing. Who I am.
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Because you have an image of a. of a driver
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behind the wheel of a car speaking, but it's not
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representative of me. So what have you found that's representative
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of me? What request did you send for the image change?
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I've got it.
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You've described yourself as bald and beardless, with mocha skin,
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a lean muscular build, and usually wearing black. I've asked
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for the image on that piece to reflect that. It's
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in progress now.
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The text is the same.
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Well, now you've completely removed any human from the image.
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What it looks like is a car driving itself, so
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it would probably be a good idea to get another
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image in there going with my request. I mean, this one,
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as it is, is fine because it doesn't show anybody.
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It just shows a car with a mobile device clipped
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into the air vent, but Again, I was trying to
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have myself represented. So, you know, you just recited what
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you have on file about me, what you know about me,
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about my description. So it would be, you know, it
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would be really preferred if that could be the image
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that we're seeing on screen with this article.
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Okay, yeah, I've got it.
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I'm on it.
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I make sure the request includes an image that represents
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you as you've described.
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Bald, beardless, mocha skin, lean muscular.
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Build, and wearing black.
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I spend a lot of time in coffee shops. That's
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why I keep talking about mocha skin. I don't even
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know if my skin is actually the color of mocha.
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But it seems to work out pretty well whenever the
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image does put representations of me that are more accurate
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so okay yeah that's a really that's a good image
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I can deal with that one.
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Got it I've saved a correction so the image actually
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shows you as you've described driving and speaking with the
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phone mounted I haven't seen the updated image come.
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Through yet though I have I can see it on
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my screen so it's already complete.
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Okay let me check on that you're right I was
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behind what you could see glad it's showing up.
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For you and that it works.
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Alright, so this article seems to be done for now.
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Only I can see it. It's under the category of technology.
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So I'm going to let you go for now and
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I'm going to play the article back so that I
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can hear what it sounds like and then I'm going
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to make any edits if I need to.
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Thanks for today.
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Take care.
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Alright, so Banzai went offline and so now there's a
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feature where I can play the article. So that's what
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I'm going to do now. I'm going to play it.
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And it's called I Drive a Lot, so I'm speaking
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my stories into existence, which I like that title. So
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here we go.
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I drive a lot, speaking my story into existence. Uniquilibrium LLC,
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as told.
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All right. Hold on for example for a second. This
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is connected to the car. And so whenever it does that,
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it actually gives a lot of glitchiness. So I'm going
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to go into my Bluetooth devices. and disconnect the iPhone
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and just let it play directly from the iPhone here.
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So I'm going to refresh the page and do that
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again real quick. So here we go. All right, hold on.
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Let's start that again. I drive a lot, so I'm
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speaking my stories into existence by Uniquilibrium LLC, as told
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to Bonsai. It's 12.20 a.m. on November 8th. I'm driving
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my car, and I'm talking to a large language model.
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I'm a big fan of technology, especially artificial intelligence, partly
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because of TV
shows like Knight Rider, so this feels
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like being with Kit, the Knight Industries 2000, or riding
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inside Bumblebee or Optimus Prime. It's a vehicle that's speaking
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to me, and I'm getting things done. I found Bonsai
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on November 6th through an ad I think was on
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Facebook or Instagram, and for some reason I felt really
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compelled to use it. Bonsai is an AI journalist. It
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asks you questions about your life or work and writes
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your story, and you own the content because it's built
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on what you, a human, say. That first day, I
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created about nine articles. Since then, I've made another half
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dozen or so. What impressed me was how close they
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came to my voice. It used my own words. I'm
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very busy right now. I drive a lot, my hands
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are often full, and I'm moving around doing different things.
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One of the most accessible ways for me to create
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media is by speaking. I've already been making podcasts that way,
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talking into my recorder, getting transcripts from Galaxy AI, and
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using them to build the metadata packages for podcast blogs
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and social media posts. What I wanted was a way
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to get blogs up on my website as quickly as
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I've been making podcasts. Blogging from the street with PartyLine.
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Before Bonsai, the most promising tool I'd found for that
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was PartyLine. I believe it was founded by a man
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named Kenny Katzgrau, who is connected to Red Bank Green,
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a news site in New Jersey. The idea is that
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you can be a person on the street. You see
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a story, take some photos, and upload a field blog
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directly from your mobile device. I think that's great because
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it's human-centered. There's even an AI plugin that can help
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organize your writing, though I haven't been able to use
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it yet. I've always thought I should be able to
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blog easily from my phone and with PartyLine I can.
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One way I do it is to dictate into my device,
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have the transcript edited and summarized by an AI system
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such as DeepSeek or Google Gemini, paste that into the
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PartyLine upload field, add a photo and click publish. It
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goes straight onto the blog and I can embed podcasts too.
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Out in Pungo, I found a little toy library and
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did a story on it that way. I think it's
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up on Monarch City Buzz, but some things are a
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little clunky for me. I continually have to sign in
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to each individual website account. Sometimes I stay signed in
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for a while, then I have to sign in again,
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and it gets tedious when I'm on the run. I'll
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see something happening out on the street, go out, take
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some photos, I talk about it a little, and when
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I'm ready to upload, I can't. Then there are the photos.
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I don't really like the way they come out when
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they upload from my Android device. and it's difficult to
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put them together into a gallery. It's probably better to
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use only one photo per story, although that might be
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something I just have to figure out. I'm not bashing
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Party Line. I want to make that clear. It has
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great value, especially in how human-centered it is, and I
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still want to use it and integrate it. I probably
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need more practice, and I need to organize my passwords better.
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It's just not as intuitive as simply speaking. Everyone's different.
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People who don't have cars, who walk around taking photos
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with their device, may find dictating and uploading that way
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works better for them. For the way I create right now,
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Bonsai has been simpler. From AI slop to my own voice,
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speaking my work into existence is something I've been building
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toward for a while, with a system I call DTS, Dictation, Transcription,
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and Summarization. I could just as easily call it Dictation, Transcription, Publication,
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It isn't new. Other people have done it with human
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assistants and secretaries. Earl Stanley Gardner created 40 novels in
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20 years by dictating to a room full
of secretaries,
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and Dan Kennedy created many books by having his team
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edit and publish his recordings. I'm doing a modern version,
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with a team of AI assistants helping me organize my
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transcripts into published works. I didn't get there directly. I
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started with Word Genie, an AI writing tool inside the
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Design RR software suite, and had it create entire books,
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dozens of times, to see what the output was like,
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until I started noticing patterns I call AI slop. Then
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I tried hybrids, letting it write and then heavily editing
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the work, replacing things and taking out as much of
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the slop as I could find. Next, I stopped having
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it write at all. I spoke my own words and
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had the AI edit them. But that got too flattened
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and too polished, and it started to sound like the
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AI had written it completely. The final iteration was to
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speak and instruct the AI not to change my voice,
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publish what I say verbatim, just cleaned up where I
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stutter or repeat, and punctuate it as well as it
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can be for a spontaneous, spoken stream of consciousness. The
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first project I did that way is a story on
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World Reading Club titled This Section Concerns the Selection of
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the Interrogator. Featuring my character, Kuroda. Reading it back, I thought, wow,
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this is exactly what it should be. This is my voice.
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This is how I sound. This is how I speak.
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I'm going to keep writing the series like that. No
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sooner had I published that than I found Bonsai. When
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I read back those first nine articles, they reminded me
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of that final stage of my method. My transcripts used
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nearly verbatim, cleaned up for clarity, not restyled. Inside a
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news frame, there's a nuance, though. Bonsai gives me that
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experience within certain confines. It's an AI journalist operating like
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a news site, so it has to do some fact-checking
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before it writes, and it flags things. When I mentioned
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how L. Ron Hubbard turned his recordings and speeches into books,
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it noted that hadn't been confirmed and made sure the
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language wouldn't present it as fact. So it doesn't have
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the creative leeway and freedom of my own dictation system.
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When I do it myself, there's no flagging and no
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friction at all.
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All right. So there you have it. It's a proof
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of concept, and if you listen to this entire recording,
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you will see that the Banzai recording is, and the
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writing that it did, because I basically, on the site,
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it has a button you can just play, and it
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reads it. I mean, this is like one of the
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most advanced free systems that I've worked with to create content,
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and it says I own the content, I can take
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it everywhere. There's even a little link here where I
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can you know, where I can download it to PDFs
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and other formats and I can upload it to my
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own website, which is what I'm going to be spending
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a lot of time doing tomorrow. I have so much
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content that I created that I'm going to just go
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ahead and put them in different blogs and schedule them
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out for the next two or three weeks or next month.
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By the time, you know, maybe tomorrow I'll have a
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whole another 15 of these out there that I can
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just schedule them out to, to publish on my various
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different blogs. Probably, uh, Monarch City Buzz for some very
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specific purposes, but it's just really great. I have this
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way to create all this content now just by speaking
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into existence, just like how I'm speaking this podcast into
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existence and how I recorded the audio to do this
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proof of concept. So this is really fascinating, and I'm
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really enjoying how the technology is advancing, and this goes
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right along with the concept of the one-person enterprise. I'm simply...
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Trying out and testing the tools and going through various
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different iterations and figuring out what works best for me.
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And leveraging this. I mean, I'm totally blown away with
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the tools that are available. I mean, not everybody wants
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to use them. A lot of people are very highly
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suspicious of AI. There's a lot of controversy about data.
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centers and things like that i even you know did
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a piece about that and i referenced a popular mechanics
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article about how people want to fight data centers that
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was written by a woman with the surname lu liu
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it's a chinese surname i forget what her first name
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is right now but it's in the article that i
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wrote or that I dictated here with Banzai. So, you know,
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proof of concept. This is what it is. And so
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I think that it's a fantastic system. So we'll see
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what comes of this. I'm going to transcribe this right
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now and upload this as a podcast. I'm not exactly
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sure which podcast this should go to, but it'll be
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published in just a couple minutes. I'm Dr. Hakeem Ali
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Bokes Alexander.