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Well, first up, we have your digital life hack, and after that I'm going to play a call for my weekend national radio show. You're wasting hours every week typing out the same answers over and over again. You probably don't even realize that you're doing it. I'm Kim Commando for Webroot. Start the new year off with the best antivirus protection. My listeners get an exclusive 75% off@webroot.com Kim think about it. How many times do you type Sorry, I'm booked that day? Or can we push this to next week? The client Check in the meeting? Reschedule the vendor pitch? You need to decline. It's like Groundhog Day for your inbox. Here's the fix. Copy the text from your last 20 sent emails, paste them into ChatGPT or any other AI bot and ask. Analyze these emails, identify the two most common responses I send, and write a generic fill in the blanks template for each. It's going to hand you the perfect template for the the polite decline the status update. Save those drafts in your email templates. You never have to type them from scratch again. Every day, almost a million folks get my five star rated newsletter. You should too. Sign up right now@getkim.com Next up, a call for my weekend show, the Kim Commando Show. Enjoy. Ever heard of the audience effect? It's when we change our behavior when we think we're being watched. Well, online, we're always being watched. Your Internet provider tracks everything you do, even in private mode. That's why I use ExpressVPN. It's a tool I trust to keep my Internet connection protected. With one click, it hides everything I do online and sends it through a secure connection so no one can see or track my online activity. Here's the best part. ExpressVPN works across all your devices. Your phone, laptop, tablet, even your smart tv. One subscription protects up to eight devices so your whole family stays secure. Don't wait. Protect your family's Internet connection today with ExpressVPN. Right now, you can get my special offer of four extra months with ExpressVPN just go to ExpressVPN.com Kim. That's ExpressVPN.com Kim for four extra months of privacy protection, don't wait. Check it out right now@expressvpn.com Kim Thomas in St. Louis.

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Hi there, Thomas.

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Hi, Kim. Good to hear from you. My wife and I have our usual interesting talks about computers. And one day she was making a carrot cake and she couldn't find a recipe. And so she went online and she did a search for carrot cake and she found something she thought was okay. It turned out it wasn't very good.

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And.

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I asked her, I said, well, did you go to America's test kitchen? She says, oh, no, you got to pay for that. I said, we do pay for it, you know, so we could do that. But when AI gives you all of these results and maybe they even give you a website to look at, is there any way to tell if that site is giving you an AI result which could be an amalgamation of 15 different carrot cakes all glommed into one.

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Now with step one of the carrot cake recipe, ground beef in a bowl.

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Well, that could be a clue.

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Well, you know, the biggest clue is that you don't have the real life stories like with, with food bloggers. They always say, this was the carrot cake that I grew up with from my great great grandmother from the Ukraine who used to farm her own carrots. And they go on and on. You're like, I just want the stupid recipe.

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But I read a couple of weeks ago, because of AI, all the food bloggers are giving up because they're not getting any more traction and it's not worth their time because totally overtaken by.

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You know, there, there, there is a website called GPT0me. GPT0me. And that's where you can paste in text, it'll tell you whether or not it's, it might be AI generated. In addition to that, you could, you could also take quotes from that recipe and then see where else that appears and make could appear to somebody else. But, but you know, carrot cakes, not too hard to make. I'm sorry that it turned out really crappy for you.

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Well, I wouldn't use those words, but it just wasn't the best that I've had. Well, you know what?

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Tell your wife if she wants recipes, go to Tick Tock.

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Yeah, that's true. Go to Tick Tock. Because you know what? There are so many good recipes on that are floating around on Tick Tock. Or you can ask Claude or Chachi pt.

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I Don't.

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And what I really love to do is you take a picture or you take a video of everything that's you do a live call rather with ChatGPT or whatever your AI bot is. I have all this in the refrigerator and it comes back and it says, you know, chicken meatloaf with mashed potatoes and carrot cake.

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Open doordash app.

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That's what I do. All right, we have time for one more phone call. Deborah in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Hi, Deborah.

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Hi, Kim. How are you?

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Great. What's going on with you?

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Well, I was researching text to video AI tools and there are so many of. I want to use them to create educational materials and I'm researching and researching about to give up and I'm listening to your show and I'm like, why don't I call Kim Commando? It would make so much sense because I hear you. Yeah, I hear you helping people all the time. So the reason I want to use the text to video AI is because I want to get these lessons up and this way I don't have to hire photographers, I don't have to worry about lighting, editing. I know these tools are. Yeah, these tools are incredible and I just don't know which way to go.

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Well, there's only a couple out there that are worth even trying. The first one is called heygen. That's H E y G E N. Okay. You get unlimited videos up to 30 minutes, which is fine. And it's a platform that we've been playing with here that I think has great potential for what you're trying to use it for. Now if you don't like that platform, try Synthesia. And that's like synthesizer, but Synthesia.

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Yeah, I've looked at that one.

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Yeah, I like that one because they have over 70 different AI avatars in like over a hundred different languages. But I think heygen is better implementation that then Synthesia. But Synthesia has different features with the different avatars. But either way, as you mentioned, creating these videos, these training videos without hiring lighting directors and prompters and studios and all that other great stuff. I want you to remember that we are just at the beginning stages of this too. We're just now figuring out true voice AI cloning. And now we're gonna add video with it and have the lips synced up. So it's getting there, but it's nowhere as great as it's gonna be. Say in about 12 to 18 months, you're gonna see a big, big push over that line where the lips will really sync up, but if you're just trying to get it out there right now, it's a good place to start again. Heygen and Synthesia hey, wanna stay in.

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