# 369 - Manual Mode: Using AI Without Losing Yourself

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Podcast: [This Can't Be That Hard](https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-can-t-be-that-hard-357105)
Published: 2026-05-19T06:00:00+00:00
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I remember the exact moment I first heard about ChatGPT. I was walking my dog, talking to my dad on the phone, and he mentioned this thing he'd heard about on NPR - some AI tool where you could just type any question and get an answer. My reaction? "Huh. Why would I need that when I have Google?" That was not that long ago. Wild. Just a couple of short years later, and AI is literally everywhere. But a lot of photographers I talk to are genuinely conflicted about using it - and I think that c...

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