You Ask, I Answer: Drawing the Line on AI Review?

In today's episode, Kevin asks, how do you where do you draw the line for human review in AI marketing tasks? He says, it's clear AI is writing drafts and brainstorming for people working in marketing. Where you draw the line and insist on human review versus letting the AI auto-publish. Um it depends on your level of risk. That is the unsatisfying but completely accurate answer.

It depends on the level of risk. If you are publishing something like a social media post and uh you have done extensive testing already and you have proven that AI generates a pretty good result, um, and it's to a low-risk place, for example, uh if you don't particularly care about a social network, but you know you kind of have to be there just to be there. That's a place where the risk is low, and you're probably good to just say, okay, after testing and after proving out that your system works the way it's supposed to work, it is let it ride. Let it let it do its thing. If, on the other hand, it's a place that is high risk, that is maybe high value or high reward, or the penalty for creating slop is very high.

Human review. It's gotta be human review time. There is no com there's no pat simple answer to this question. It depends on your appetite for risk, your company's appetite for risk, what you're willing to tolerate, what your audience is is willing to accept. This requires you to not just set a system on on autopilot and just go, right?

You have to think through well, what kind of risk am I comfortable with in any given situation? Let's say you're one of those marketers, and there's a whole bunch of them who are out there cranking out slop on LinkedIn 24-7, right? We all know who they are. Those are the people who have that comment bot that says, that's a sharp observation. Here's what I think, which is not what you think because you got an AI writing from a template.

What are your thoughts? Right? We've seen you know that comment, you've seen that comment a gazillion times. What is the risk to your brand? Or and that includes your personal brand as a human being, if people perceive you as being inauthentic, uh, you're just phoning it in, you don't actually care, and you're there just to farm engagement for your account.

Right? What is that level of risk? And are you comfortable with it? One of the reasons I don't use comment bots and things like that. I mean, it'll be trivial to engineer one, they're super easy to build.

One of the reasons I don't use them is because I'm not comfortable with the level of risk that it comes with. The risk that people say, you know what? You're not really there, so why should I bother talking to you? That's a level of risk that to me is too high for my personal brand. That's why I'm you know recording these videos in my kitchen as I cook on Sundays.

It's not because I want to have a cooking show, it's because I want to be useful with my time and still provide value in human form. And this is the way I can do both things. Could I write down my thoughts and have an AI avatar generate them? Sure, I could. Would I personally find that satisfying?

Not necessarily. I would rather have the uh driver the raw data and and summarize it myself than have a machine jump through all those hoops for no good reason. So, this is a case of you know, to quote Jurassic Park. Just because you can doesn't mean you should. As Jeff Goldblum's character, Ian Malcolm said, your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they never stop to think about whether they should.

My line for human review is always level risk. How risky is any given behavior? And you can quantify that risk or you can categorize at risk. You can do a simple like Likert style scale. Low risk, medium risk, high risk.

What are the consequences? Because risk isn't at the end of the day, risk is about consequences. What are the consequences if a machine does something unintended? Unironically ask the question what could go wrong? What could go wrong?

If the answer is nothing, nobody cares, then you are all good to go. But I would then question why are you bothering on that channel in the first place if literally nobody cares? That's not that doesn't seem like a good use of your time. So identify the risk, identify the consequences of that risk blowing up, and then decide what level of risk you are comfortable with. That is how you'll generate good AI outputs that are situationally appropriate for the outcomes you care about.

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