Hey, it’s your pals: The Mars McClanes. We’re hearing more and more people talk about AI and Chat GPT, so we thought we’d weigh in and talk about how we use it.
First off, ChatGPT is fun. You can ask it weird questions like “how long will it take for the sun to cool to room temperature?” You can have it describe Baylor’s 2023 football season using the plot of Beauty and the Beast as a template with Baylor as Belle and The University of Texas as Gaston. Or you can have it write up all your marketing and press releases.
It is perfect for marketing and press releases.
Chat GPT can do a lot of things, but its towering strength, by far, is marketing. It’s fantastic at corporate speak, understands the different types of templates out there, and can do it in a matter of seconds.
You’d think people who’d come together to form a band would love attention, and we do. But that doesn’t mean that we like creating press releases where we have to talk about ourselves. That’s weird. It feels braggy. It’s a stand on the table in the lunch room, look-at-me-everybody situation, and we don’t like that kind of attention. I don’t think.
Probably not, but anyway… with a dispassionate large language model doing all the heavy lifting, our consciences are clean.
Having it write lyrics is a bridge too far for us. We know Chat GPT can write them, but that’s kind of our thing. We pride ourselves on our point of view, or the character that we inhabit’s point of view. That’s our voice, and we won’t hand that over to software.
We’ve messed around with Dalle-2 for artwork but haven’t really found anything that we love or that looks presentable (outside of our DERRT playlist). So, right now, and for the foreseeable future, we’ll keep making our album artwork in Canva (Brian) or Powerpoint (Russ).
So, if we’ve pitched your playlist, mea culpa, we did it with the help of ai. We probably tailored it a little, but Chat GPT did most of the work.
If you’ve read this far, thanks, you’re the best. Drop us a line through email or Insta and let us know how you like to use AI.