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What’s up folks. As we close in on episode 100 and the end of this season, one episode that’s been on the list for a while now is revealing how we do our AI images.
Most of the comments we get on our social posts aren’t “wow amazing content, love the CDP topics, I learned so much about email deliverability…” It’s usually “that cover art is SO cool, what’s the prompt that you use, what tool are you using for these amazing images?”
So without further ado, let’s go behind the curtain and walk you through the process that we use to repurpose our audio only podcasts into long form blog posts packed with eye popping AI images.
Of note, this is a highly visual episode so check out the blog post here for all the images: https://humansofmartech.com/2023/11/21/98-revealing-the-secret-prompts-and-process-behind-our-ai-images/
Here’s today’s main takeaway: Ditch your raw transcripts and transform your audio podcast into a visually engaging blog with unique AI-generated images. Ditch lame stock images and learn how to use Midjourney for standout visuals that elevate your content and captivate your audience. But a word to the wise: these AI tools are addictive. Use them at your own peril.
Agenda for the episode:
How to turn your audio-only podcast transcript into a long form blog post that you can then repurpose for social sharesHow to get started with Midjourney, setting up your Discord server and adding key bots. Picking a consistent styleBring your blog post social shares to life with eye-popping images and make your podcast stand out with a unique cover art that matches your featured guestsHow to turn your audio-only podcast transcript into a long form blog post
JT: Alright so Phil, we’ve been using Otter.ai to transcribe every episode after you’ve edited them. What’s the first step to converting that long not so great raw transcript into the polished blog posts we have on the site today?
PG: Yeah so step number 1 involves our trusty friend ChatGPT. Here’s the prompt I start with:
I’ll provide podcast transcripts with [guest name], and I want you to convert each Q&A into a blog passage. Third-person only. No fluff or weird words. Remove 'ums' and 'likes.' Each passage gets an H2 title and ends with a key takeaway. Ready for the first question and answer?
So I go through our transcript, I copy paste the question we asked and I copy paste the answer from our guest. Here’s an example from our episode with Scott Brinker.
Naturally, the output isn’t always perfect. You’re asking ChatGPT to turn your raw transcript filled with ‘ummms’ and ‘likes’ and probably has several mistranscribed words. So it’s always worth going through it and looking for issues.
JT: Yeah that’s a super cool use case for ChatGPT, the output is usually pretty solid and it doesn’t always have that generic GPT signature or style to it because it starts with something vs just asking it to generate something from scratch. So do you move to generating images for each section now?
PG: Not yet haha. I actually use ChatGPT to help me write a summary of the episode and suggest variations of titles as well.
I start with getting a list of all the takeaways from each section and paste them all into Chat GPT and ask it to come up with a summary based on those takeaways.
JT: Very cool… okay now are we ready to move on to Midjourney haha?
Getting Started in Midjourney
First step here is creating a Discord account if you don’t have one already. Then you’ll want to create your own server so you can generate images in your own private channels.
Then you join the Midjourney Beta on their site, that’ll get you invited to the Midjourney Discord server. You can check out the #getting-started channel in there to get some startup instructions. You can start seeing what others are building in any of the #newbie channels.
But I prefer building in private so you can hit the ‘Show Member List’, click on the Midjourney bot
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