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One Brilliant Arc (OBA)'s avatar

This was an intriguing and insightful article, with beautiful reminders of how valuable our humanity is to each other’s stories. The way we hold the stories people share and help them tell better ones makes all the difference in the world. ❤️‍🩹

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Magdalena Ponurska's avatar

The human stories will be always at the front and center - b/c that's what we can connect to at the very deep - heart - soul level(s).

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Jose Antonio Morales's avatar

This is a great article. It shows the power of watching our fears, waiting, and come out with a clear image of what is really happening.

We can't anticipate the effects of AI, but we definitely should not lower our heads too easily to our fears.

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Magdalena Ponurska's avatar

Thank you, Jose! It's super easy/comfortable to bury our collective heads in the sand and be at the effect of AI...rather than facing our fears and educating ourselves on responsible and ethical use of it and experimenting with it, seeing what's possible...

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@mindset&mythos's avatar

This is fascinating. I already do something like this with chat GPT so it's uncanny to see how it can be taken further with NotebokLM.

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Magdalena Ponurska's avatar

I love the aspect of experimenting and testing it across different platforms - and being able to see how much we can push it....

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@mindset&mythos's avatar

Yes. It's uncanny how well it knows you simply from your content, how it can create a profile of you from this content, and make insights into your personality.

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Yolanda E. S. Miller's avatar

These days, I'm more often than not MAD at AI than scared of it. Although your article was REALLY helpful and maybe made me a tiny bit less mad—so thanks for that! LOL

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Magdalena Ponurska's avatar

I’m so happy to hear that Yolanda! I’m curious why MAD?

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Yolanda E. S. Miller's avatar

Ahhh, where do I begin? Bahahaha...

The main thing lately just seeing how people are being duped by AI Substack accounts, how people (not everyone) use it to slap together stuff to make a profit, and how it feels like some writing has gotten less satisfying, as it's gotten more AI-generated. I'm mad at the people who say "it doesn't matter" if or how you use it.

So I appreciate how your article talked about how we can use it well. But I think the majority of folks won't bother to ask or address the question and I already notice the difference.

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Yolanda E. S. Miller's avatar

I hate that this comment makes me sound like a total snob, btw HAHA

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Magdalena Ponurska's avatar

Welcome to the snob club - LOL!!!

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Yolanda E. S. Miller's avatar

And now this happened: https://www.npr.org/2025/05/20/nx-s1-5405022/fake-summer-reading-list-ai

Maybe it's ok to be a *little* snobbish...if it means I'll write about things that actually exist, LOL

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Magdalena Ponurska's avatar

I’m voting for fully blown AI SNOB club! where we get to write about things that exist, connect at the heart level and bleed on the page!

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Gunnar Habitz's avatar

The key here is in collaboration instead of competition. Humans don‘t have to compete with AI.

Competition is when human test various AI tools against each other (eg Claude vs ChatGPT). And that is fine.

Otherwise humans should do what they can do best and collaborate with AI. Thanks for your insightful article!

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James Presbitero's avatar

Love this. I definitely think the same thing -- that AI tools and human capabilities can augment each other in the best ways. It just takes a bit of evolution. Very interesting to see how this is affecting the coaching world as well.

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Magdalena Ponurska's avatar

Thank you, James. I'm very passionate about educating others on and about ethical and responsible ways of using generative AI. It's super easy and comfortable to just be on a sideline and "watch" what's happening and how it's unfolding - rather then be on the court and understand what's under the hood and what are the implications short and long term.

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James Presbitero's avatar

We have a very similar mission, Magdalena. I believe we should be actively shaping the future of AI as well. I'm grateful to have been connected to you! Ceylan from One Brilliant Arc recommended your article.

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Magdalena Ponurska's avatar

Oh that’s fantastic! Thanks Ceylan for the connection!

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