6/5/2025 - AI and the Prompt: Infusing Your Essence

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1. 0:03[Music] 10,000 words swam around my head. A
2. 0:19million more in books written beneath my bed. [Music] Well, I wrote a red demo when searching in the swamps. Still can't find how to
3. 0:34hold my hands. And I know you need me in the next room over. I'm stuck in here home paralyzed.
4. 0:49[Music] For months I got myself in ruts. Too much time spinning mirrors framed in yellow [Music]
5. 1:03walls. Ain't it like most people are no different? Like talk on things we don't know about. Ain't it like most people? I'm no
6. 1:18different. Like to talk on things we don't know about. [Music]
7. 1:42Oh, good people. Good people. I'm back from a big CEO dinner. I made a I made a tactical error tonight. So, normally when I go to this CEO
8. 1:51dinner, they got like crappy dry taco meat and [ __ ] like that. Tonight, they went on ahead and they had chicken mac
9. 2:00and cheese and spaghetti with meat sauce and garlic knots and I just I [ __ ] I went nuts and and I'm in a some sort of
10. 2:09fantastical diabetic crash right now. I'm like, so so chances are good. This is going to be an unremarkable evening and
11. 2:23it might not last that long, but you know, I figured I'd step in and say hi. [Music]
12. 2:43Well, it's not simple to [Music] say to most days. I don't recognize me that these shoes and this a place and its
13. 3:00patrons taking more than I gave them. It's not easy to know. I'm not anything like I used to be. Although it's true, I was never
14. 3:17attention sweet center. I still remember that girl. She's imperfect, but she tries. She is good, but she
15. 3:33lies. She is hard on herself. She is broken, but won't ask for help. She is messy, but she's kind. She's
16. 3:49lonely most of the time. She's all of this mixed up and baked. Beautiful pie. She's gone, but she used to be mine.
17. 4:03[Music] Oh man. Uh so so yeah, so I'm I'm exhausted. I'm So So there's that. There's that. Uh we got some folks
18. 4:15sharing the live. Thank you for that. We'll flip the uh flip the cameras here. Pull up the black bar so tick
19. 4:24tockers can read what the hell they're writing. Someone Eltoyo Troyo just sent a gift. Thank you for that gift. Anyone
20. 4:31sending gifts, much appreciated. Thank you. Ah. Um, so this this this epiphany that I
21. 4:46had, for those of you that are new here, my name is Kyle Shannon. A lot of times what I'll do, I'll talk as if I'm just
22. 4:53continuing a conversation because for the most part this channel is just like one long runon sentence and there's a
23. 4:59lot of people that come here night after night. So, if I just start talking in the middle of a story, a lot of the
24. 5:05people like, "Yeah, we know what he's talking about." They take notes. They're they're probably like recording these
25. 5:11things, running them through chat, JBD, pulling out the most important salient comments. Yeah, I whatever. It's it's
26. 5:18they got a whole life. This the people that come here night after night. But if you're new here, welcome. So, just if if
27. 5:24it feels like you don't know what the hell I'm talking about, just put it in the comments. What the hell is he
28. 5:29talking about? They'll tell you. They'll catch you up. Anyway, so I had this big epiphany about AI and the big epiphany Tik Tok
29. 5:40pin. This has been a two-year conversation for me. I know. Sorry, Source Camp. It's got to be exhausting, but but I'm glad you're in the
30. 5:48conversation. I really am. You're you're uh you're one of the good ones. [Music] Um, so this epiphany that I
31. 5:58had, you got your prompt, the prompt hole. We call it the prompt hole. That's the technical term for it, right? The
32. 6:04prompt hole is hungry. And you got to feed your prompt hole. You got to feed feed the prompt. Feed your
33. 6:12prompt. And then the question and and it it'll it'll eat anything, right? So if you give it a shitty prompt, it'll give
34. 6:19you a shitty answer. You give it a lazy prompt, it'll give you a lazy answer. So the question starts to become, what do you feed your
35. 6:27prompt? And if you feed your prompt, you what ends up happening is the AI tool, no matter which one it
36. 6:38is, whether it's a large language model or a music tool or a video tool or a picture tool, the more of you you
37. 6:46infuse, the more of you you feed into your prompt, the better it gets. Because what it does is it actually takes
38. 7:00your I was going to say essence, but that sounds mamby pami. It takes it takes your intent and it amplifies it.
39. 7:10And so the more you can get your context, your ideas, your frustrations, your questions into that thing, the better it
40. 7:18gets, the more powerful it gets. The more personally electrifying AI gets. If you just try to use it like a fancy
41. 7:28Google search, it's going to act like a fancy Google search. It's going to be shitty. So feed your prompt.
42. 7:35you. And that that led to this this realization that a lot of times we're asking the wrong question. A lot of times we're
43. 7:45asking the question, how do I get the most out of AI? It's not the right question. If you want to transform
44. 7:54yourself, if you want to take your AI experience to like a whole another level, ask yourself this question.
45. 8:03How can I get the most out of myself with AI? Not how can I get the most out of AI. How can I get the most out of myself with AI? It changes
46. 8:18everything. Oh no, Khaki lost her dog yesterday. I'm so sorry. Wow. 18 and a half years. That's absolutely crazy. We
47. 8:31had our first two labs we had for 17 years and that's for labs. That's really long. But man, it's [ __ ] heartbreaking. Heartbreaking. So
48. 8:46a sad. That sucks. That sucks. Oh, it was today. I'm sorry, Khaki. That's just awful.
49. 9:02[Music] Joker 15ish for my lab mix. [Music]
50. 9:25Yeah. Yeah. seep in gratitude for the love for all the all that she gave us. That's the thing about dogs, man. They
51. 9:32are just pure [ __ ] love machines, aren't they? They're just they're just like, "Hey, you're home. [ __ ] far
52. 9:40out. I didn't think you were coming back. You came back. You know, you're the best, right, man?" Such [ __ ]
53. 9:46dogs. They are just They're just awesome. They're like, "Hey, you." Oh god, man. How you been? It's good. I was
54. 9:54just in the other room. I know. But it's so good you now you're here. Oh, lordy lordy lordy. Almost three years. Haven't heard a period yet.
55. 10:09So many commas. Yeah, we don't listen in life. What's more important is starting sentences than ending them. You
56. 10:20don't need to you don't need to end thoughts. You don't need to end sentences. is there's so many expectations. They're going to finish a
57. 10:26sentence. Don't do that. Don't Don't give into the man, the punctuation man. Oh, lordy, lordy, lordy. All right,
58. 10:38let's see. Dogs are the absolute best. They really are. They are really the best. I'll have a blog post about it,
59. 10:46I'm sure. and probably a song khaki and image tributes and videos. I mean, you can do all that stuff now. You can kind of go nuts if
60. 10:58you want to if you want to do, you know, tributes and thoughts and just explore. You know, what a remarkable time we live in.
61. 11:09An absolute remarkable time. [Music]
62. 11:33Oh man. [Music]
63. 11:50Some members have used AI to cope with similar situations, shared songs, images in the salon. Yeah, you could do that.
64. 11:56Feel free to I mean, you know what the the nice thing is about the salon, khaki, is you've got you've got enough
65. 12:02friends in here that well, I mean, obviously by the comments here in the Tik Tok, but if you share things about
66. 12:07your puffer in the salon, you know, do it. It's life, [Music] man. So funny. I was talking talking to
67. 12:24some people tonight this this older gentleman who's the father of of a guy that I'm really fond of at the the CEO dinner I go to and he
68. 12:34was just like I've used chat GBT but it you know it doesn't have a soul it doesn't have can't can't tap into
69. 12:42humanity and I was like I completely disagree he's like convince me and I told him you know my my epiphany around you know collective
70. 12:52intelligence that that AI is the collective intelligence of humanity that that statement that kind of opened it up
71. 12:58to me that we're actually collaborating with all the people that came before us. So I think there's actually deep
72. 13:05humanity in it. And I this whole idea of you know feed your prompt with you is an it's it's a way to amplify
73. 13:14yourself. And then I think about a community like this community and like the AI salon community which while
74. 13:21they're related they're they're they're very different things but you know the purpose of that community while
75. 13:29it's tied to AI and while it's it's about us exploring what's going on with all these technologies it's ultimately about us all building
76. 13:41relationships and then as one of us figures something out, the other ones get to go along for the ride. But but it
77. 13:48really is about building the relationships. And so there's a lot of humanity in in this group, in the salon,
78. 13:55in AI, if you use it right. Right. If you treat it as an extension of humanity, it becomes this humanity amplifier. And so yeah, I would
79. 14:04encourage you to do that. Khaki, that would be great. Trevor Hook just subbed for the mastermind. Am I smarter now?
80. 14:10You're absolutely smarter. jump into the mastermind. We're uh so Leah and I tomorrow we're doing um a founder
81. 14:19hangout um in the salon for anyone that's part of the mastermind um every Friday uh at 2 Eastern, noon Mountain.
82. 14:29Um so we're going to be hanging out there tomorrow. So yeah, so you'll be you're smarter now and then you come
83. 14:36hang out with me. Oh, here's the other thing. Because most of the clubs are now part of the mastermind, if you subscribe
84. 14:46to the mastermind, you still have to rejoin the clubs that you want to join. So, if you were part of the uh you know,
85. 14:55life hacks with with Brandon and Claire, um when however it happened when when we flipped those spaces to the mastermind
86. 15:06spaces, it basically severed all the relationships with the previous members. So, you have to resubscribe to clubs.
87. 15:12So, if you're part of mastermind, go down through the clubs and join join the ones that you want to be a part of
88. 15:17because you're not automatically in there. That's not obvious, unfortunately. And we didn't part of the challenge with using
89. 15:28thirdparty software like we are to manage a community is you don't always quite anticipate how the software is
90. 15:34going to behave. It's a little janky like AI. It's a little janky. So dogs have all of our virtues with
91. 15:44none of our flaws except maybe a little too much love of food. Yeah, exactly. That's it. Oh, wait. Actually, no. If you
92. 15:52join the mastermind, you're automatically in clubs. You're in all mastermind spaces. All right. I don't know.
93. 16:03Brandon's getting ready to type. I don't know if that's true. It might be true, but I don't know. Anyway, you're you have you have
94. 16:14access, but you're not subscribe to the space. So, like if the space goes live, Vicki, the previous members won't get
95. 16:23notified because they haven't subscribed to that space. So, it's the subscription. It's the It's I don't
96. 16:29know. Whatever. It's whatever you got to do to be a part of the space. [Music]
97. 16:47My goal is to love myself how my dogs loved me. Oh my god. Can you imagine if we as a species like actually learned that from
98. 17:04dogs that you know you're going you're going to go into a little shame spiral. You're going into a little
99. 17:10self-loathing, a little negative, you know, reinforcement, ne negative imagery on yourself and you just sort of
100. 17:16immediately go, I'm just going to treat myself like a dog. Hey, dude, you're the best. Yeah, that would be that would
101. 17:23change the world if we could act like dogs treat us. Treat ourselves like dogs treat us, but it's paid, right? Yeah, the
102. 17:31mastermind is paid. Yep. But it's for the balance of 2025, it's uh 20 bucks a month. And if listen, if you're if you
103. 17:40can't afford it um and you're going through some stuff, reach out to either Vicki or myself or Leah. Um and we're
104. 17:48doing uh scholarships for those that want to be a part of it that can't be for for financial reasons. So reach out [Music]
105. 18:27[Music] All right, let's go. Let's go look at some things. There's a couple of new things out. Um, one of them,
106. 18:43so about a year and a half ago at StoryVine, we we started selling video personas, right? So, creating fictitious
107. 18:52people, creating an image of them, designing a voice for them, turning them into animated videos. Um, when we started that, there were no
108. 19:03voice models that were good enough that you could use text to speech. They just didn't sound real. So, the first batch of them that
109. 19:10we delivered to customers, I would do the acting and then I would do a voice swap using 11 Labs, right? Because 11 Labs texttospech
110. 19:19model wasn't good enough. None of them were good enough. And then I don't know two months ago, maybe three months ago,
111. 19:25this this site came out came out called Cartisia.ai um which does it's like 11 Labs, but no one's heard of it, but it's really good.
112. 19:36And so that was the first texttospech model that came out that was good enough that I could do these these avatars
113. 19:44without having to doing the without having to do the acting myself and then swapping out the voice. And so today, 11
114. 19:51Labs introduced V3, the the alpha of their new uh texttospech model. Uh, and it looks pretty flipping impressive. So,
115. 20:00I thought it might be fun to go take a look. I'm heading out a bit early tonight. Big presentation in the
116. 20:05morning. I'm not going to last long, Source Camp, so you're not going to miss much because I uh I overpasted I overindexed on the the
117. 20:14pasta at the CEO dinner tonight. So, I'm just like I can't keep my head [Laughter] up. Oh man. [Music]
118. 20:33Okay. Meet 11 V3, the most expressive text to speech model. That's the scent of freedom and just a hint of mutiny.
119. 20:48Now grab your cutlasses, stow your fear. Tonight we dine like kings or we sink like legends. Hey, Chris. Knock knock.
120. 21:03I'm not doing this again. Come on, M. Please. I promise you'll love this one. Nope. No. No. No. Never again. The last
121. 21:1210 weren't funny. The next 10 won't be funny. You're not funny. And you never will be. How many 11 Labs engineers does
122. 21:20it take to screw in a light bulb? Oh my god. I'm going home. All right, that's not bad. We're off under the lights here for this
123. 21:34semi-final clash. The stadium buzzing with anticipation. 11 Labs United in their iconic black and white shirts
124. 21:40pushing forward with intent straight from the opening whistle. Driving down the wing, pace to Bernie. He skips past
125. 21:45one. skips past two. Oh, this is beautiful. One-on-one with the fullback. Cuts inside. Oh, that's a lovely bit of
126. 21:52footwork. And goal. Oh my goodness, they've done it again. Yeah, that's pretty something. Okay, so like I finally beat level 42 of
127. 22:02that game I said I'd quit like a month ago. And then for the final big scary mega boss, it's just like some cute little bunny
128. 22:11rabbit. I just couldn't do it. It was so cute. Okay, so I wonder so all these things like laugh, giggle, hysterical,
129. 22:23laughing. I wonder if that's a set list of those or you can put anything in there. Tik Tok pin. Let's see. It's pretty cool. If I had it,
130. 22:32greet my neighbor, they would have no idea what the [ __ ] was going on. Today I introduced chat GPT to my friend and
131. 22:38he's impressed and he's using the free version. Yeah, it's it Listen, don't forget if you've been coming to this channel for a while,
132. 22:46people who've never seen Chat GPT are still blown away that it can write a poem, right? That you can go write a
133. 22:55poem about a pizza and it'll vomit out a poem. That still blows people who haven't seen this stuff away. So, don't
134. 23:02don't forget as you show people this, we're we're we we've got we've got some bridges to build to catch people up to where we are.
135. 23:14Um, I think archetypal architects writing some more stories here. Rolling around like a newborn centaur. Body can run, can't hold up the
136. 23:24torso. Oh, man. All right. What is this now? We're We're looking at 11 Labs new V3 model. Well, we're listening
137. 23:33listening to it. It's their new texttospech model. So, I was thinking we could test our new timing features.
138. 23:39Exactly. How did you know what you were thinking? Lucky guess. Sorry. Go ahead. Okay. So, if we both try to talk at the
139. 23:46same time, we'll probably crash the system. Wait, are we crashing? I can't tell if this is a feature or a bug. Did
140. 23:53I just cut you off again? Yes, but honestly, this is kind of fun. race you to the next sentence. We're definitely going to break something.
141. 24:05Interesting. Are the open smell listened to that one earlier. Oh, here we go. So, we can play. So, two speakers have a
142. 24:17conversation. Liam, have you tried the new 11 Labs V3? All right. So, curiously, oops. Wait, can I edit this?
143. 24:36Yes. Oh, you can't copy all this. That's [ __ ] up. These are like
144. 24:51objects. It's a demo. You're not signed in. Yeah, I know. But even if it's a demo, they should let you do something.
145. 24:59Control the emotion with audio tags. Create controllable expressive speech layered with audio events. Immersive
146. 25:12soundsscapes. Generate dynamic conversations between multiple speakers. Oh, add speaker. Cool. Human-like speeches in 70 languages.
147. 25:27V3 multiple speakers. Yes. Audio tag support. Languages 70. How does the 11 V3 80% discount
148. 25:41work? It's 80% off until the end of June for self-s serve users through the UI. All right. So, you get three weeks of 80% off. That's
149. 25:55whatever. [Music] Um, all right. That's it. Huh. Fascinating. All right. That's something to play with if you're uh if
150. 26:07you're needing to make voices. Might be worth playing. Who's got any questions? Who's got any thoughts?
151. 26:37Let's see. We could do that. So, one of the cool things is um ChatPT is doing a children's book
152. 26:51contest and this is a book that our own Vicky Baptiste made and submitted which I think is really really
153. 27:03good. And it's got a turtle in it so it can't be all bad. How nice is that? [Music]
154. 27:18So Vicki, did you do these pages? Is the typography here done in chat GPT or was it done in like Canvas or something like
155. 27:29that? I started using your project cardboard thing. Seems like it may be really helpful get for getting me
156. 27:35organized. Great. I actually talked to someone tonight that said they've been using it. Um I don't know how many
157. 27:41people are using it. The whole thing is chat GPT. Wow. The typography is really good. Like it looks it looks nice. It
158. 27:50looks Although it's weird that there's one where it put the text over the dark tree, but it's really good. All right. You want to read it?
159. 28:03We'll read it. Are you okay with me reading this, Vicki? Adobe AI is bad for consistent characters. Adobe AI is bad for a lot of
160. 28:16stuff. It's what it's good for is it hasn't been trained on, you know, copywritten work, but because of that,
161. 28:21it's not good. All right. The Path of Pebbles, a quiet journey with Mina and Mr. Turtle. In a land where the mountains
162. 28:30hummed and the clouds swirled like whispered secrets, a curious girl named Mina set out on a journey. At her side
163. 28:37walked Master Turtle, old and wise, with stories hidden in every wrinkle of his shell. Where are we going? Mina asked.
164. 28:44To see what we find, said Master Turtle. And find what we don't seek. Very wise, Master Turtle. The path curved through cotton candy
165. 28:56meadows and glowing mushrooms. Mina skipped ahead, chasing a floating pedal. "Slow is steady, steady is
166. 29:05strong." "Further down the road, they met a fox juggling leaves in the air." "Why do you juggle?" Mina asked. "To
167. 29:12keep balance," said the fox with a wink. "Even when the wind comes." Mr. Turtle nodded. "The wind teaches us to move, not to fall.
168. 29:23They came to a quiet stream where a frog sat watching the ripples. "Why do you sit so still?" Mina asked. "To feel the
169. 29:31world moving, "Ribbit," the frog whispered. "Stillness lets me hear it all," Mr. Turtle smiled. "Still water show the sky most
170. 29:42clearly." "Turtle starting to bug me." Just past the stream, a squirrel skip by, scattering nuts in every
171. 29:51direction. Why are you in such a hurry? Mina Mina called. To prepare, shouted the squirrel. Winter always comes too
172. 29:58soon. Master Turtle chuckled. Yes, but rushing won't make it slower or sweeter. They reached the quiet hill
173. 30:08where the world seemed to breathe. Mina lay on the grass watching the sky change colors. "Is this the end?" she asked.
174. 30:14"No," he said. "It's a pause. Pauses are sacred, too." As evening settled in, fireflies flickered like stars come down to play.
175. 30:25Mina spun slowly, wide arms wide. It's like the sky is dancing with us. Master Turtle watched. When we glow from
176. 30:33within, we recognize the light around us. The sky turned deep and dreamy, stars blinking hello. Mina closed her
177. 30:41eyes and whispered, "I like this journey." Master Turtle smiled, too. "The journey liked you, too." As they drifted into quiet, the world
178. 30:52held its breath with them. No need to rush, no need to know. Just one small girl, one old turtle, and a path that always
179. 31:03continues. A, that's so sweet. That is so sweet. That's awesome. Um, Ann Murphy, I was talking to Ann Murphy today. Um, we had our uh we had
180. 31:17our our podcast yesterday and then today was the Kim Kimberly Offford's uh film festival, her AI film festival and and
181. 31:27she'd watched like 13 of them or something like that. And she said one of the things they all had in common is
182. 31:32they tended to all have kind of a dark dystopian kind of vibe to them and the stories tended to be kind of sad. And uh
183. 31:41I was curious about that. I was curious about why that was the case. Um, it might have just been the the nature of
184. 31:48the audience that Kimberly Offford has. It it might just be One of the things that that I notice with generating
185. 31:56images that are going to be cinematic is the darker, more broody [ __ ] tends to cover the jankiness of the AI. So maybe
186. 32:05there's just something where darker dystopian stuff looks better and that's why people are going with it. I used
187. 32:11Adobe Illustrator's AI to make a coloring book. My mother criticized it. Oh, the historical accuracy. Well, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
188. 32:23Especially if you're using Adobe. But but even anything where you're doing accuracy. Yeah. I would I would write it
189. 32:30first, check the accuracy, and then go make the images for it. I like the Ferris Buer smuggling in for a bedtime story from Kyle. Oh, I feel
190. 32:45like Ferris Beller snugging in with a bedtime story from Kyle. Yeah, I'm I'm exhausted. I'm whipped. I think what we're going to do,
191. 32:53let's see, YouTube. What? Let's see. That book has less errors than my latest salon email blast. That's awesome.
192. 33:04Producer Brandon also has a a book entry in the contest. Is the entry on Discord? Yes, the entries are on Discord. The the
193. 33:13Chat GPT's Discord channel or I guess open AIS. Is it open AIS or chat GPTs, guys? Open AIS. Okay. Open AI's Discord.
194. 33:25And how long is the contest going on? Do you know when the deadline is? mid mid June. All right. So, we're June
195. 33:405th. All right. Listen, what's today? Thursday. So, tomorrow we got office hours at 11:00 a.m. Come to office hours. So, how you
196. 33:49find office hours is tomorrow come to my LinkedIn channel and you'll see an ad or you can go to any of my old events. It's
197. 33:57always the same URL. Um, that's at 11:00 a.m. Mountain time, 1:00 p.m. Eastern. And if you've never been to an
198. 34:06office hours, you should come to them. It's a really good group of people. So, come do that. Tomorrow night's first
199. 34:12Friday, so we're going to be out gallery hopping likely. So, um, we'll probably start late again tomorrow. Um, I'll try
200. 34:20my best not to eat exorbitant amounts of pasta right before the show. Okay? You see, I'm not I'm not car bloating for a
201. 34:28marathon. And therefore, it's it's affecting my body in whatever would be the opposite way that it affects a
202. 34:42marathoner. Oh, good lord. All right, let's go look at the irregulars. Let's see what's going on in irregularas.
203. 34:51Irregularas. Oh, the irregulars. Let's see. AI learning lab and irregulars. Have you fed your prompt today? Yes,
204. 35:07exactly. Love it. Delayed one hour. Started late and ending early. Oh, yeah. Putting in a solid half hour's work tonight,
205. 35:19people. Um, okay. So, this Saturday, Vicki is doing a learn out loud an LOL um on Saturday. So, if you go to the AI
206. 35:29salon, go to events up at the top and then there's Vicky's Oh, nice graphic. That's awesome. Um Vicki is going to be
207. 35:41teaching people how to make websites with Vibe Coding. If you've ever wanted a fancier website and you don't feel
208. 35:48like teaching yourself web flow or one of those Wixs or one of those stupid horrible [ __ ] things and you just
209. 35:57want to describe the website you want and have it be manifested for you, come to the LOL. All right, so go there. Um,
210. 36:05office hours tomorrow, late start tomorrow night for this because it's first Friday. Not just vibe coding. Oh,
211. 36:12okay. Good. So, so website building in general, how to use AI um to help help build websites. Um it's going to be
212. 36:20really good. So, go do that. It's 3 pm mountain time. Okay. Um yeah, that's it. I'm going to get out of here because my eyes are crispy. My
213. 36:29voice is crispy. Okay. I'm a designer and a coder. Got to see this. Yeah, go do it. Jump in. All right, everyone.
214. 36:37Have a fantastic evening. Sorry I was late. Sorry I'm leaving early, but you know, [ __ ] happens. Don't eat too much pasta with booze. With
215. 36:47booze. All right, we'll see y'all later. Bye.