{"id":93366,"date":"2026-03-30T08:00:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T12:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businessesgrow.com\/?p=92155"},"modified":"2026-03-29T09:23:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T13:23:30","slug":"thought-leadership-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businessesgrow.com\/2026\/03\/30\/thought-leadership-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Faking your way to thought leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-92156\" src=\"https:\/\/businessesgrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-14-at-9.35.51-AM-1024x949.webp\" alt=\"thought leadership\" width=\"800\" height=\"741\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I teach an online class about personal branding and wrote a book about it too, so I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about the impact of AI helping you become &#8220;known.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-61879\" src=\"https:\/\/businessesgrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/human-content-badge-300x280.png\" alt=\"100 percent human content\" width=\"300\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businessesgrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/human-content-badge-300x280.png 300w, https:\/\/businessesgrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/human-content-badge.png 742w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>There are the obvious AI benefits like creating and re-purposing content, topic research, and even strategy. But there is a bigger question: What happens when a person uses AI to fake their way to thought leadership?<\/p>\n<p>While many argue that AI content will never replace human effort, I&#8217;m skeptical. AI can create compelling work, perhaps indistinguishable from original human effort. We are definitely in an era where anything seemingly &#8220;human&#8221; can be faked, including voices, videos, and online intellect. I, for one, am overwhelmed by AI slop.<\/p>\n<p>The AI tsunami raises the bar for what we will consider true thought leadership. Leadership begins with trust, and that will require extraordinary effort:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Transparency about the use of AI<\/li>\n<li>A commitment to human authenticity, even when it&#8217;s messy. Sharing genuine setbacks, mistakes, and course corrections that AI would never volunteer.<\/li>\n<li>Elite, non-AI accomplishments and awards that cannot be faked. Social proof displaying that you&#8217;ve done the work. &#8220;I was in that room&#8221; detail that only comes from having actually done the thing.<\/li>\n<li>We will look for origin stories and flaws as evidence of authenticity.<\/li>\n<li>Consistency &#8212; Demonstrating an alignment of wisdom, values, and helpfulness over time.<\/li>\n<li>Real-time demonstrations of authority, such as live speaking, unscripted conversation, podcast appearances, and Q&amp;A. Performances that can&#8217;t be pre-generated.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The signals of truth become more costly when we compete with others hacking their way through with an AI assist. Remaking a masterpiece isn\u2019t hard. Making a masterpiece is<em> really<\/em> hard.<\/p>\n<p>As I proposed in <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4ssfzBH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">my book <em>Audacious<\/em><\/a>, culture will favor originality more than ever before.<\/p>\n<p>Just as the ubiquity of fast food didn\u2019t threaten the business of fine cuisine (and arguably further distinguished it), they will crave <em>more<\/em> original high-quality storytelling. We see this in our growing hunger for <a href=\"https:\/\/businessesgrow.com\/2024\/10\/28\/unhinged-brands\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">weirdness and unhinged marketing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To create your authoritative personal brand, show up in a way that is uniquely you, tell a story only you can tell, and don&#8217;t give up.<\/p>\n<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-60708\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" src=\"https:\/\/businessesgrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Speaking-shot-Mark-Schaefer-2-300x298.png\" sizes=\"(max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/businessesgrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Speaking-shot-Mark-Schaefer-2-300x298.png 300w, https:\/\/businessesgrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Speaking-shot-Mark-Schaefer-2-85x85.png 85w, https:\/\/businessesgrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Speaking-shot-Mark-Schaefer-2-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/businessesgrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Speaking-shot-Mark-Schaefer-2-50x50.png 50w, https:\/\/businessesgrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Speaking-shot-Mark-Schaefer-2-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/businessesgrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Speaking-shot-Mark-Schaefer-2.png 900w\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"216\" data-attachment-id=\"60708\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/businessesgrow.com\/uprising\/speaking-shot-mark-schaefer-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/businessesgrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Speaking-shot-Mark-Schaefer-2.png\" data-orig-size=\"900,894\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Speaking shot Mark Schaefer 2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/businessesgrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Speaking-shot-Mark-Schaefer-2-300x298.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/businessesgrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Speaking-shot-Mark-Schaefer-2.png\" \/><strong>Need a keynote speaker?<\/strong>\u00a0Mark Schaefer is the most trusted voice in marketing. Your conference guests will buzz about his insights long after your event! Mark is the author of some of the world\u2019s bestselling\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businessesgrow.com\/social-media-marketing-books\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">marketing books,\u00a0<\/a><\/em><em>a college educator, and an advisor to many of the world\u2019s largest brands.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businessesgrow.com\/contact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Contact Mark<\/a>\u00a0to have him bring a fun, meaningful, and memorable presentation to your company event or conference.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Mark on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/markwschaefer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/markwschaefer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCHeqwN52RM7GIrKEE5INpng\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">YouTube<\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/markwschaefer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Illustrations courtesy Mid Journey<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When AI can help you fake thought leadership, the challenge to break through requires more human effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":93367,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[13,45,138,63,65,25,62,131,66,39,52,47],"tags":[1879,36,232],"class_list":["post-93366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","category-ethics","category-influence-marketing-2","category-internet-marketing","category-leadership","category-marketing-best-practices","category-personal-branding","category-power-and-influence-on-the-web","category-psychology-and-social-media","category-social-media-best-practices","category-social-media-strategy","category-sociology","tag-influencer-marketing","tag-mark-schaefer","tag-personal-branding"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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