Ai Generated Courses – What's Your Take?

[MikePT]

Merry Christmas everyone.

What your thoughts on AI generated courses?

Seems to be the hot thing right now...

The thing courses vs e-books is that they obviously can be sold at a higher price.

Even there are available already selling AI prompts to do it.

MikePT

[Dien Rice]

Hi Mike,

Here's my view at the moment...

In the short term, yes, you can make money with these...

Chat-GPT pretty much knows everything on the internet. If the info the course is about is available on the internet somewhere, then Chat-GPT can probably generate a course...

But in the long run...

There's the law of supply and demand.

With those courses, more and more people will be making them...

More than that, people can just use Chat-GPT to make their own courses they want to take themselves!

With more and more supply... The prices you can charge will (in the longer term) go down...

I think there's one area where this isn't true, and that's for more specialized information, which you can't find on the internet, or in easily available books...

If you have that information, or access to it... You can still use Chat-GPT to make a course, but you'd have to have it make a course based on your private information. (The possible problem with that is - once you use it, Chat-GPT learns the information... Which means someone else can also make the same course, because you effectively uploaded your info to Chat-GPT...)

So, for the short term, sure... But know that, most likely, the prices you can charge will go down as more and more people jump in with their own automatically generated courses...

If you want longevity, then you need something that Chat-GPT doesn't know about... in my opinion...

Best wishes,

Dien

Originally Posted by MikePT

Merry Christmas everyone.

What your thoughts on AI generated courses?

Seems to be the hot thing right now...

The thing courses vs e-books is that they obviously can be sold at a higher price.

Even there are available already selling AI prompts to do it.

MikePT

[trevord92]

Given that AI is here to stay & given that Queen's Brian May thinks that this is the last year we'll be able to know for certain that music has been written by a human, it's going to get complicated!

ChatGPT can do a good job of outlining a course and - from there - creating the content for it. Often better than a lot of the dross that's been sold to date.

It's then going to come down to supply & demand. Good luck to Udemy and similar platforms policing things!

Mixing in live sessions with the main course could be a good way to differentiate.

Homework would be another way but that would risk people getting further and further behind and then dropping out.

Promotion and advertising will still take time and effort. There's no money in a course (however created) that's gathering digital dust.

Fun times!

[trevord92]

Of course, there's another option:

AI generated course

plus "personal" email help where ChatGPT (after a suitable delay of a few hours) answers the questions

with a "raise to supervisor" level where if it's not answered in one or two attempts, the course creator answers.

[GordonJ]

Originally Posted by trevord92

Of course, there's another option:
AI generated course
plus "personal" email help where ChatGPT (after a suitable delay of a few hours) answers the questions
with a "raise to supervisor" level where if it's not answered in one or two attempts, the course creator answers.

If I use AI, I am out of the pic. This course creator will NOT answer and won't have any contact.

AI will be able to gather the data, and then CUSTOMIZE the information.

As an example, maybe you subscribe to Dien's newsletter. Very soon, that type of newsletter will be able to tell you which Business Ops are best for you, and which ones are needed/wanted in your locale.

As it learns more about YOU, the more customized the information becomes.

Just sayin, if I'm using AI for content, it is going to be doing ALL of the work, not just some of it, why not? Isn't that what is built for?

Gordon

[trevord92]

It's what it's built for but not sure if it's quite to the 100% "hands off" level yet.

A friend - before he downsized his internet marketing - used to pick up the handful of requests that his PA hadn't managed to answer in two attempts so I figured the same approach with AI would be good.

Of course, if you're Amazon or Google or similar then it's completely canned answers that may or may not resolve the issue. But they're big enough to not worry about alienating some of their customers (especially since the competition is doing the same thing)

[MikePT]

Thank you everyone for your replies.

What I think that will happened is what Dien said: the law of supply and demand... With more and more supply... The prices you can charge will (in the longer term) go down...

And as other products and markets, the Advertising will go trough stages, as those expressed at Breakthrough Advertising by Eugene Schwartz.

There will be a time that the same Ads will not work, they have to move to the next stage of Advertising (as expressed at Breakthrough Advertising).

So, we can almost say there are never death markets?

Just different stages of Advertising of each market?

Eugene Schwartz tells how to revive a death market.

And what he says that makes some sense to me.

MikePT