You Ask, I Answer: Using AI to Rewrite Reports

In today's episode, Ruben asks, is ChatGPT the best tool to take a long form report like a McKinsey research report and rewrite it into an article that's shorter point about preserving the voice. Okay, so a couple things here. One, if you do not work for McKinsey, you may be violating the intellectual property because you are effectively making a derivative work. Now, I am not a lawyer, I cannot give legal advice. Please contact a lawyer in your jurisdiction for advice specifically to your legal situation.

But in general, if you take saying, I would like to take this other person's intellectual property and spin it with AI into something that I can uh mistake as my own, masquerade as my own, you are at the very least being unethical, if not actually breaking laws. So to answer the question, don't do this. Right? Don't do this. You say, but we need content.

Great. Here's what you do instead. Instead of just lifting somebody else's work, um, what you should do is put your spin on it. What is your take? So, yes, McKinsey put out a report of some kind, any kind, who cares what it is.

And you're like, this is a valuable report. Okay, it's valuable in the abstract. But McKinsey reports, like all forms of content, are written for a specific target market. And that might not be you. So the question is, what's your take on it?

So read the report, and then do like the kids do on YouTube and do reaction video. Step through the report saying, Oh, McKenzie said this. Well, here's my take on it. McKinsey said this. Well, here's my take on it.

And then take your transcript of your reaction video where you said, Here's my take on these things. Here's where, you know, why I thought McKinsey said it was valuable. Here's where I disagree with McKinsey, because that's the value that you provide. I hope you don't provide that value, then you got bigger problems. Um use that as the jumping off point to create the content.

It will be better, you'll be more tailored to the environment, it'll be more tailored to your customers, and most important, it emphasizes the way you think that is different than McKinsey because guess what? Nobody needs to read your article. They can read the McKinsey version. If they're if you're using chat GPT to summarize it, you're really not adding any value, but you are literally just copy pasting. Nobody needs another copy paste.

Nobody needs another regurgitation. What we need is your unique take on the topic. How do you think about this that is different, that is better, that is controversial, that is contrary. One of the easiest prompts that you can use, mental prompt, not chat GPT, mental prompt, is what do I disagree with in this report? What do I think they got wrong?

Because there's always something, right? Uh it could be methodology, but say, Yeah, you know what? I don't think you did your survey weighting correctly here. I think you uh over exaggerated some part, or you might say, I don't agree with the your perspective on this topic. I I think you you missed the vote here.

That's what people pay for. That's what people want. People don't want copy paste, people want value, and value very often comes from differences of opinion. So chat GPT, Gemini, Google, all of them are great tools for you to generate your own content. If you don't know how, here's an easy way to do it.

Take that report, the original report, and say, you know, I am so and so, I do this. This is a report by McKenzie about our field or industry or whatever. Um ask me a list of 10 questions that would be considered controversial or adversarial about this report that I could answer that McKinsey didn't answer their report. Ask me 10 questions that might be controversial or adversarial about this report that I could answer as an expert in my industry that McKinsey didn't. And it'll ask you those questions.

Guess what you do? You do exactly what I'm doing right now. You turn on the video camera, you turn on the microphone, and you say, all right, let's answer these 10 questions where we think McKinsey missed the boat. That's better content. That's stuff that people want.

That's stuff people will watch or listen or read. Because as much as someone in your industry might respect McKinsey, Bain, BCG, Deloitte, EY, all the big firms that pay consultants big money. It's even more interesting when you have a well-grounded hot take response to what they've had to say, informed by your particular expertise that a consultant might not have because they might not be at the ground level view of your industry. Like in generative AI, I have read a bunch of reports from big consultant firms. And they're good generally.

They're okay, but it is very clear that the person writing the report has absolutely no technical experience. And so they will make blanket statements that all have exceptions and nuance. So I don't ever need to copy paste a derivative work of a McKinsey report when I can look at the report and go, well, you got this wrong, you got this wrong. That's not how that works. Um, this doesn't make any sense.

This is an applicable industry, and I could make a month's worth of content out of a single report just on the things that I know as a subject matter expert. Who in your company is that subject matter expert that you would be having react to the McKinsey report anyway? Who is the subject matter expert that would say, you know what? This doesn't make any sense. This is not how this works.

This is not how real companies do this in this space. Do that. You'll be much better off. Thanks for the question. Talk to you on the next one.

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