Five years ago, if you were unsure about something, you’d: Talk to a mentor. Call a friend. Make a decision based on your gut. Now? You open ChatGPT. Claude. Gemini. Whatever your preferred AI is. You describe the situation. You ask what you should do. It gives you an answer that sounds intelligent and well-reasoned. You follow it. But here’s what’s actually happening: You’re outsourcing your agency to a pattern-matching algorithm that has no skin in your game. The AI doesn’t know you. It doesn’t know the opportunity. It doesn’t know what you’re capable of or what’s at stake. Even if you’ve given it all the context in the world how can it be making calls like this? It only knows patterns from its training data. And those patterns? They trend toward caution. Toward the average. Toward what’s “reasonable” for most people in most situations. Not what’s possible for you in your specific situation. When you ask an AI “should I reach out to this person?” it’s running a calculation based on: What usually happens when people reach out to high-profile accounts. What the average success rate looks like. What conventional wisdom says about your chances. It’s not calculating what happens when YOU reach out. Because it can’t. It doesn’t know that you’ve closed deals with bigger companies. It doesn’t know you have a track record. It doesn’t know you’re exactly what this person needs. All it knows is that statistically, most cold outreach fails. So it tells you not to bother. And you listen. Because the response sounds smart. It sounds careful. It sounds like good advice. It’s not. It’s average advice for average people in average situations. And if you’re trying to build something exceptional, average advice will keep you stuck. Please - talk to people if you are in a situation and need real advice reach out to people and ask if they know someone that can help with your situation. That always a puts people in the help mode and MOST people are actually up for helping you more than you realise. submitted by /u/jason_digital
Originally posted by u/jason_digital on r/ArtificialInteligence
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