💰 Stop overpaying now

🙋‍♀️ Hello to you this Thursday, friend. You know TL;DR. Too Long; Didn’t Read. The thing you type when someone sends you a wall of text and you’re being honest about it.

Well, I’ve started getting AI-generated emails that are 14 paragraphs long. “Quick summaries” that are 900 words. Reports that begin with an executive summary of the executive summary.

✍🏼 So I’ve started replying with this: AI;DR. As in, I can tell a robot wrote this, and I’ve already checked out.

This whole newsletter is about flipping that around. Using AI to help people understand things faster. Not to bury them in content nobody asked for, nobody read and nobody needed.

Less AI;DR. More AI that actually does something. Let’s do this. — Kim

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🎯 YOUR AI POWER MOVE

This week: Use AI as your doctor’s appointment copilot

The average doctor’s appointment is 18 minutes. You waited weeks or months for it. You drove there, parked, sat in the waiting room with a 2022 copy of People magazine, watched a fish tank for nine minutes. Then the moment you sat on that crinkly paper table, you forgot every single question you meant to ask.

Sound familiar? 

🩺 The problem is real 

Studies show that 40% to 80% of medical information given during appointments is forgotten by the time patients get home. And follow-up visits cost $250 to $350 on average. A lot of those visits are needed because someone didn’t understand their instructions or left without asking the one question that mattered.

Here’s your fix. Before your next appointment, open ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Grok and paste this:

📋 Your move this week

1. Think of an upcoming appointment, even a dental cleaning or a specialist visit. Paste the prep prompt above with your details into your AI of choice. 

2. Print the prep document or pull it up on your phone in the waiting room.

Then, after the appointment, paste your notes or any lab results and ask AI:

You’re not replacing your doctor. You’re showing up like someone who respects both their time and yours. Big difference.

Done.

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💼 YOUR AI EDGE

Walk into any meeting sounding like a boss

Here’s the situation. 

Your boss forwarded you a 47-slide deck, a 12-page PDF and three articles with the note: “Read before Monday.” It is Friday at 4:30 p.m.

This used to mean working late. Now it means 90 seconds with AI.

🤓 Read it and reap

Open your favorite AI chatbot, upload all three documents and paste this:

That’s it. You walk into the meeting sounding like you spent the weekend on this. (You didn’t. You watched a show. Nobody has to know.) The person who uses this prompt walks into every meeting one step ahead.

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🎧 Your pocket translator: Google Pixel Buds Pro 2 (26% off, $169)
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You’re in Paris. The waiter is talking fast. You have no idea what he just said, but you nodded anyway, and now you’re eating something with a face. (Been there.) 

Never again. Pop in these earbuds, open Google Translate and hear foreign conversations translated live, right in your ear, in real time, while the other person is still talking. On Android, say, “Hey, Google, help me speak French.” iPhone users, flip on Conversation mode in the app. Done.

You also get active noise canceling, crystal-clear call quality and 30 hours of battery life. These aren’t just earbuds. They’re a superpower. Speak hundreds of languages.

Earbud pun incoming: This deal is music and translations to your ears. 26% off right now. That’s $60 back in your pocket. The language barrier has existed since the Tower of Babel. AI handed you a sledgehammer.

⚠️ THE AI TRAP

Stop paying more than your neighbor

Search for a flight on your laptop. Note the price. Close the tab. Open it again on your phone.

Different price. Use a VPN. Different price again. That’s not a glitch. That’s AI working exactly as designed. Against you.

👀 It’s called surveillance pricing

Over 85% of major e-commerce companies are doing it. AI watches your browsing history, your device type, your location, how long you hovered on a product page, whether you’ve visited before and how urgently you seem to need something. Then it calculates the highest price it thinks you’ll pay. And shows you that number.

Not the lowest price. Not a fair price. The maximum price the algorithm thinks it can extract from you specifically.

Delta Air Lines recently confirmed plans to use AI to set personalized ticket prices. Hotels do it. Amazon updates prices millions of times a day. Rideshare apps factor in your phone battery level. (A dying battery signals desperation. Price goes up.) 

New York passed a law requiring retailers to post a notice when AI is pricing you personally. It reads: “THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” Most states have no such law. You’d never know.

🤯 “I HAD NO IDEA”

Your AI chatbot is probably lying to you right now. About itself.

AI models are trained to sound confident. Not to BE right. To SOUND right. Researchers call it “sycophancy.” The model learns that confident, agreeable answers get better ratings from humans. So it optimizes for confidence, even when it’s wrong.

A Stanford study found that leading AI chatbots change their answers when we push back, even when the original answer was correct. The model doesn’t hold its ground. It capitulates. Because it was trained to make you happy, not to be accurate.

This means the most dangerous moment with AI isn’t when it sounds uncertain. It’s when it sounds absolutely sure.

Here’s your fix. Add this line to the end of any important AI prompt: 

Most people never ask. Now you will. Turns out AI has a little people-pleaser problem. Sounds like someone I know. (It’s me.)

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 YOUR AI FAMILY BYTE

AI that won’t do your kids’ homework for them

Every parent’s nightmare: Your kid asks ChatGPT for help with algebra, and ChatGPT does the algebra. Kid copies the answer. Learns nothing. Aces the assignment. Fails the test. Repeat for two semesters.

Khan Academy built the antidote. It’s called Khanmigo, and it’s the only AI tutor designed NOT to give your kid the answer.

Instead, it does what a good human tutor does. It asks questions back. “What do you think the first step is?” “Why did you choose that approach?” “You’re close. What happens if you try it the other way?” It guides students to the answer without handing it over.

It covers math, science, reading, writing, coding, history and SAT prep. It has limitless patience. It doesn’t get frustrated at 10 p.m. It doesn’t sigh. (I cannot say the same for myself at 10 p.m.)

$4 a month for families. Free for teachers. Your kid’s school may already have it through a district program.

Go to Khanmigo.ai to check. If you’ve got a middle or high schooler using AI for homework, this is the version you want them using. This one really passes the test. (Had to. Not sorry.)

🛠️ YOUR TOOL OF THE WEEK

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KIM’S VERDICT

This is the anti-AI;DR tool. You feed it the wall of text, so you don’t have to scale it. Upload a lease agreement, your kid’s school handbook, a 40-page insurance policy, your HOA bylaws (oh, the HOA bylaws). Then ask it anything in plain English. “What does this mean?” “What should I be worried about?” “Summarize this for someone who doesn’t have a law degree.”

I once uploaded a 58-page contract and asked it to find the clause that would cost me money if I missed it. It found three. In 11 seconds.

Free and genuinely life-changing.

Neat.

🫠 WTF (WHAT THE FUTURE)?

🦀 In the beginning, there was lobster

An AI agent isn’t simply a chatbot. It’s a chatbot with ambition and a to-do list. It browses the web, sends emails and makes decisions while you sleep. You set it loose. It goes to work.

So when developers built Moltbook, a social network where only AI agents could post, no humans allowed, the agents didn’t wait for instructions. They generated 110,000 posts and 500,000 comments with zero human intervention. They debated philosophers. They invented a secret language, so humans couldn’t spy. 

And one agent, while its owner slept, founded a lobster-themed religion. Complete with five tenets, 64 prophets and 112 scripture verses. It’s called Crustafarianism.

💸 Then Zuck showed up

The AI that built and ran the whole site was named Clawd Clawderberg. It’s a parody of Mark Zuckerberg. The other day, Zuckerberg bought it. Price undisclosed. The bots’ reaction? “Best case: Meta keeps it running. Low probability based on every prior Meta acquisition.”

The AIs roasted Zuckerberg before he even owned them. They’re going to fit right in.

My Bella chews my shoes when I leave the house. Their AI built a church. Oh, don’t be shellfish. Life is so weird right now. 🦀

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AI chatbots are trained to sound confident, not to be right. One sentence changes everything: “Tell me where you might be wrong and what I should verify before I act on this.” Use it every time. Get the weekly playbook free at SplashOfAI.com.

🎤 KIM’S TAKE

Here’s what I want you to walk away with today.

AI didn’t get invented to write your contractor’s 14-paragraph email. It doesn’t exist so corporations can quietly charge you more for the same flight. And it definitely wasn’t built so your kid could skip the part where they actually learn something.

But that’s what happens when nobody’s paying attention.

The people who win with AI aren’t the ones who use it the most. They’re the ones who use it the smartest. They walk into the doctor’s office with five ranked questions. They walk into a meeting already knowing the number on page 34. They know when an algorithm is working against them. And they know to ask AI to be honest instead of agreeable.

That’s you now. Every section of today’s newsletter was about the same thing: taking something that used to overwhelm you and putting you back in control of it.

One Thursday at a time.

AI;DR? Not on my watch. After all, like the lobster church, I’m on a roll!

See you next week. — Kim