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EP 24: AI vs Authenticity – Is Social Media Losing Its Human Touch?

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Todd says photos and videos are no longer “accurate captures of reality.”

The episode opens with a blunt claim that social media is supposed to be social, not robots talking to robots. That sets the tone quickly. Hannah joins as the social media manager and gets pulled straight into the question of whether AI is flooding feeds. She says her own personal feed does not show her much of it because she is not actively engaging with those posts. The conversation then moves into the wider pattern of AI-generated videos and images. It also turns toward the way content has started to look and sound alike, especially on LinkedIn. The hosts keep circling back to the same annoyance. People are following formulas. They are writing to a template. The result feels less like a point of view and more like homework copied from the person at the desk next to you. That leads into a discussion of a viral social media course from a few years back that taught people to build posts the same way. The point is not that the structure was evil. The point is that the flood of lookalike posts made the feed feel hollow. They note that people get sensitive about calling something AI-written, and sometimes they are wrong. Sometimes it only looks machine-made because everyone else is writing the same way. The episode keeps stressing that this is a loop. AI learns from human writing, then humans start sounding like AI, then everybody gets annoyed by the sameness. There is also a practical turn. One of the guests mentions that their copywriters always say to read it out loud. If it does not sound like something you would actually say, it is off. That becomes a useful test instead of a fancy theory. The chat drifts into a silly side path about potatoes, which fits the show's habit of using nonsense to land a serious point. That digression is not random for long. It underlines the larger argument that personality is what keeps content alive. They also admit that AI is useful inside a marketing agency. It helps, but only when the team knows how to use it properly. They mention Otter being used to record interview calls with clients, so the team can work from real conversations instead of pretending the robot did the thinking. That distinction matters to them. Real input first, machine help second. The final stretch brings the argument home. AI is not the enemy. The problem is acting like the robot is you. Social media still runs on personality, opinions, stories, and relationships. Strip those out and people will notice. Flood the feed with artificial content and authenticity becomes more valuable, not less. The episode closes on that hard line, then wraps with the usual invitation for listeners to get in touch.

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A sharp warning about AI flattening the human voice that makes social media worth reading.

This episode draws a blunt line between social media and AI, with a social media manager offering the closest thing to frontline perspective. It keeps returning to the familiar LinkedIn formula, the copycat posting that tends to follow it, and the simple habit of reading copy…

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