Ep. 3240 - Q&A: “Should I tell my clients I’m using AI?”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
AI tools can double your output, but not everyone's comfortable with it. Today we map a three-part policy for disclosing AI use that keeps trust high, quality higher, and clients on board.
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Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.
Show notes: SideHustleSchool.com
Email: team@sidehustleschool.com
Be on the show: SideHustleSchool.com/questions
Connect on Instagram: @193countries
Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com
Read A Year of Mental Health: yearofmentalhealth.com
If you're enjoying the show, please pass it along! It's free and has been published every single day since January 1, 2017. We're also very grateful for your five-star ratings—it shows that people are listening and looking forward to new episodes. 😎 🙏🏼
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| 0:48.2 | Lemonada. |
| 0:52.9 | Writers have always used tools. |
| 0:59.7 | You know, people are asking a lot about AI these days. |
| 1:02.5 | And if you go back when Microsoft Word, or there was probably some other word processors, |
| 1:06.6 | actually before Word, spell check came out. |
| 1:09.6 | And spell check was like this thing, you know, |
| 1:11.9 | that felt kind of like cheating. Like you're using spellcheck. Is that cheating? Nowadays, |
| 1:16.3 | of course, spell check is integrated into every system that we all use. Then there were companies |
| 1:20.3 | like Grammarly, then there were headline generators. And now you've got ChatGPT, Claude, |
| 1:25.9 | perplexity, all these other language models, which are basically the power tools of 2025. |
| 1:31.8 | And so a listener today, is he a freelance writer? |
| 1:35.5 | He is a marketer. |
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