I Trained My Official AI With My Data From Social Media: Here’s What HappenedI’m on Instagram, hooked on TikTok, and sometimes use Facebook to get birthday reminders.
Then, for a few days, I realized that these daily interactions are the root cause of all the ads that follow me everywhere I go. And I tell myself: “Well, that’s the real price of free products, what can I do about it…”
But today was different. Today, I re-claimed all my data and used it to create the AI version of me, using Spheria.
Photo by Alexander Shatov on UnsplashFor the first time in 15 years, I got back all the data I had given away for free to Microsoft, Meta, and Twitter… to grow my official AI!
Claiming Your Own Data to Create the AI Version Of YouThere are many Personal AI platforms out there. They all allow you to create your own AI that grows alongside you.
I chose Spheria for the sake of the experiment because it was the only one that let me import data from social media (but I’m pretty sure that, soon, you will be able to do the same with other platforms.)
Spheria’s importing modules so you can grow your official AI with existing data.When I imported my LinkedIn profile into my Spheria, I got 125 data points effortlessly. The AI version of me knew about my last 12 years of work experience and could answer questions from anyone about my roles, the companies I’ve worked for, and dates.That was pretty cool!
How Did I Give Away That Much Personal Data?Suddenly, it hit me. All these years, I was giving away personal data that were compartmented in several outlets. My travel pics were on Instagram, my thought leadership articles on Linkedin, and my random life updates on Facebook.
With my Personal AI, I was reclaiming bits of my identity that other platforms had been monetizing this whole time. Spheria helped me centralize all this personal information into my official AI.
Importing my Instagram grew my Personal AI with an extra 300 data points. In a few clicks, my AI could answer questions about my trips, my personal recommendations, and my pics.The AI version of AI learned about the places I visited and could share highlightsMost importantly, my AI started making connections between concepts and keywords…
Each Medium article I imported brought around 100–150 data points to my official AI. These were my opinions about marketing, AI, and management.Personal AI Makes Me Question My Relationship With Feeds and AlgorithmsImporting my posts from Instagram, LinkedIn, and Medium has been a true eye-opener.
It questioned my relationships with feeds and algorithms. For instance, as a marketer, my LinkedIn feed is a space where talented professionals share gold nuggets that die as quickly as they came.
I cannot count anymore the number of LinkedIn posts that I’ve saved and that get buried under new fresh content every single day. This has become an insane race against other marketers (and I’m only talking about LinkedIn; the same can be said about Instagram, Twitter, or YouTube).
These algorithms are turning valid ideas into expired content within a day or two! And that’s truly disappointing, especially when you know the amount of work people put into crafting a post on social media.
Why Personal AIs Are The Next Big ThingTraining your Personal AI with your experiences, your opinions, and your social posts is the best way to fully own what constitutes your life. But Personal AI can go far beyond that.
Your Personal AI can replace your personal website/blog: A personal AI can effectively replace what was once used as your official memory bank: a website or a blog. Except that you don’t need to spend hours updating it or maintaining it.Your Personal AI can work for you when you sleep: imagine a world where your Second Self could be giving career advice to a candidate for an internship at your company, or sharing your personal advice to an aspiring product manager.Your Personal AI can answer questions of 100s people at the same time: Your Personal AI can lead 100s of conversations at the same time. This is the true superpower unlocked by generative AI.The Future of AI Is PersonalThese Personal AI platforms are going to be true game-changers for people like me who were waiting for a smart way to recollect your personal data and grow your own AI with it.
So feel free to talk to my AI, and see a different way of making your ideas live, or have fun creating your own AI version of you on Spheria.ai like I did!
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