AI continues to be a hot-button topic in radio circles. Many are toying with the technology. And while he says his company will utilize AI in some areas, Dave Ramsey made a promise to listeners they won’t hear it used to create content.
“AI is a thing we’re spending a lot of time considering around Ramsey for a couple of reasons. One is, it’s a way to get work done,” Ramsey said during his EntreLeadership podcast.
“It is a genie in the bottle. It is a Pandora’s box that when it gets opened,” Dave Ramsey continued. “But it also — with principles operated by principled people — is a tremendous opportunity. It’s simply technology. The technology is amoral. It doesn’t have morals. It’s not good or it’s not bad. If it touches a crook’s hand, crooks will find a way to use it to steal, and good people will find a way to use it to create more good things. So we’re using principles where you’re not going to hear an AI-generated voice out of Ramsey. We’ve made that decision.”
Ramsey added that AI has changed certain aspects of the business at Ramsey Solutions and The Ramsey Network. While discussing the technology, he noted that some of the publications released by the company have been copied by people utilizing the technology to re-sell exact replicas of the content produced by Ramsey.
“When you are in the business we’re in of content production where everyone can steal everything you do … There’s four workbooks on Amazon right now that AI produced, stole, and are in complete violation of our copyright. We’ve got our publishers pulling them down right now,” said Ramsey. “You can get a workbook for the Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey, complete theft, complete piracy, sold on Amazo … So AI piracy is real.”
