You’re sat in front of a blank screen—anxiety rising from the many deadlines looming ahead, posts that need publishing, and a personal brand waiting to be built.
And then, just like most people today, you reach for the prompt.
A few taps here. A slick paragraph there. A little touch-up and a tweak at the end.
It reads well and looks sharp. But … there’s something that just feels … off? Something is definitely missing.
And this is where the real tension begins—for you, the job-seeker, the entrepreneur, the founder—trying real hard to stand out in this big sea of sameness.
Because your personal brand isn’t what you post. It’s simply what people feel when they read your posts.
And The Problem? When AI Becomes the Ghostwriter of Your Identity
The rise of AI has been … well, kind of like a gift but with strings attached.
Although AI offers you easy content creation and high productivity, it costs you your originality. It also coughs up content that’s eerily uniform.
We’ve already entered the age of the Promptfluencer—someone who’s great at generating good-looking, likable content. But that doesn’t mean it’s necessarily good at communicating their truth.
You can easily identify such copies. They’re:
- Generic wisdom wrapped in a glittery, trendy structure.
- Expert knowledge that sounds like it was pulled from a page of a bot’s diary.
- Flawless grammar, but lacking conviction.
This doesn’t go to say that AI is the enemy. It’s actually far from it.
But when it does become your “voice”? Your story gets lost. You lose who you really are.
So, how do you stay human in a world that’s rapidly farming authenticity?
Here, we unpack the antidote of 5 sharp shifts with examples (personal experiences) to keep your brand unmistakably yours.
- Prompt Less and Process More
To put it bluntly—put your creative brain to use, and prompt less with AI tools.
It’s a given that AI responds fast to whatever you ask of it. But honestly, your ideas deserve more depth, and not just speed.
So next time, ditch the idea of even starting with ChatGPT first. Rather, start with your own brain instead. Ask yourself:
- “Was there a topic that left me confused last week?”
- “Was there something that inspired a change in my thinking?”
- “What mistake did I make, and what have I learned from it?”
Use AI to refine ideas, not replace them.
A Tip: Prompt from your insights, and not from your insecurities. (You can put this up on your desk to remind yourself every day!)
An Example: Sarah, a content lead, jots down her frustrations in a book before heading to ChatGPT with a prompt. She uses AI to refine ideas, and not originate. And the result is real resonance.
- Edit Your Voice Like You Would a Soundtrack
Your voice isn’t what you say but how you say it, again and again.
If your posts play see-saw from academic perspectives to overly casual, and then to vaguely inspirational, depending on which AI prompt you used that day, then you’re not building a strong personal brand. You’re just creating a racket.
So, what you can do is pick 3 traits you want your voice to carry. It can be something like:
- Confident but warm.
- Strategic but playful.
- Curious but a little edgy.
After you decide which 3 traits you would like your voice to embody, shape every sentence with that filter in mind.
A Tip: AI can mirror your tone. But it is you who can create resonance on a topic with your audience.
An Example: Trevor, a consultant at a marketing firm, sticks to a consistent tone in all his posts. He makes it his digital signature by consistently maintaining curiosity and humanness in every post.
- Stop Selling Ideas You Don’t Live or Haven’t Lived Yet
AI can give you the appearance of expert knowledge on a topic.
But your audience can clearly tell if you’re writing something from experience or if you’re just regurgitating what you Googled not even five minutes ago.
You can use information from the internet, but remember to use your voice, your brain, your writing, your lived experience, and mistakes to create content.
Because if you haven’t lived an experience, learned from it, or applied it, then just don’t teach it. It’s like if you’re a professional baker preaching about expert pottery making (which you’re not) with only half the knowledge. It would sound somewhat pretentious and confusing to your audience right?
Talk about what you’re an expert at. What you know and what you’ve learned from your mistakes. Or even other neighbouring fields you’d like to explore. Talk about the trenches you’re in. Talk about the messiness you’ve been in before, showing them how you came out of it.
Now that’s where the trust builds.
A Tip: Credibility isn’t crafted. It’s earned.
An Example: A founder posts, “Here’s what I’m learning for the last 2 weeks …” and not “Here’s how to win.” This shift is what earns you real credibility.
- Prioritize Making Connections Over Conversions
AI is great at writing for metrics and achieving conversions. But do you know where the real deal lies? It’s where humans write for meaning and soul.
Yes, you want the reach, visibility, and growth. We get it. But ask yourself:
- “Does my post make someone feel seen and heard?”
- “Does my post sound like something only I would say?”
- “Does my post open space for conversations and not just for a couple of likes?”
This has been repeated before, and it can never be said enough, so here goes again: The best brands aren’t followed. They’re felt.
A Tip: Good, strong connections scale faster than perfection. Anytime.
An Example: Frank Gustavo, a small-town bakery business owner, replies with tailored voice notes or video messages instead of pre-written or generic emails. This sparks real conversations on his LinkedIn and not just the random 5-6 likes or a formal “Hey.”
- Let Your Imperfections Stay, Embrace Them Even
Not every sentence you write needs to be polished and in tip-top shape.
And not every insight you have needs to be viral-ready.
Sometimes, just simply showing your audience your work-in-progress is your personal brand.
When you share with them all the missteps, the changes, the unsure-in-the-middle-of-it moments, you remind people that there’s a real person behind the post.
And that? That’s what AI will never be able to master.
A Tip: Being vulnerable is the new way of being verified.
An Example: Jene, a product marketer, shares the product she’s been working on before the viral version. Her “in-progress” becomes the actual story that people follow up on.
Final Thoughts: You’re Not a Prompt, You’re a Perspective
Let AI support you.
Let it save you time and arrange your key points appropriately.
But what you should not let it do is flatten you.
Because your personal brand is built in the tension between what’s easy and what’s real.
And in a world of promptfluencers, the boldest thing you can be is indubitably human.
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