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David Spinks

Executive Coach, David Spinks Coaching · 1 appearance on the record.

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David Spinks is the co-founder of CMX and the author of The Business of Belonging. After CMX was acquired by Bevy, where he served as VP of Community, he transitioned into advising and executive coaching.

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Everything David Spinks said on the Startup Ideas Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Prediction Not checkable as stated
Spinks: AI bots will manage large communities much better than humans
“And I think there's a lot more where actually bots are going to be much better at large scale community management than humans are.”
David Spinks Mar 16, 2023 ▶ 15:19 The Power of Sabbaticals in the Age of AI: Embracing Change for Success
Insight
Spinks: Knowing an entity is a bot undermines any human relationship
“Use all the exact words that a human does, but the very knowledge that it's a bot will undermine any sort of relationship that you can build with it.”
David Spinks Mar 16, 2023 ▶ 23:40 The Power of Sabbaticals in the Age of AI: Embracing Change for Success
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Spinks: Undisclosed AI Bots Could Successfully Form Communities Undetected
“If someone chose to build a community and have the bot not tell people that it's a bot, I think that a community would still form, and we would never know.”
David Spinks Mar 16, 2023 ▶ 27:45 The Power of Sabbaticals in the Age of AI: Embracing Change for Success
Opinion
Spinks: Writing undisclosed emails with ChatGPT leans toward synthetic representation
“Using chat GPT to write an email on your behalf, and not saying it is probably closer to the her end of the spectrum than the Google Maps end of the spectrum.”
David Spinks Mar 16, 2023 ▶ 29:40 The Power of Sabbaticals in the Age of AI: Embracing Change for Success
Opinion
Spinks: Using AI Writing Tools Is No More Unethical Than Ghostwriting
“So, you know, I don't think it's unethical any more than, I don't know, this dude is using a ghostwriter unethical.”
David Spinks Mar 16, 2023 ▶ 32:13 The Power of Sabbaticals in the Age of AI: Embracing Change for Success
Opinion
Spinks: ChatGPT writes better community moderation responses than I do
“I had ChatGPT respond to someone who made, like, a vulgar comment in the community, and it was really good. Like, it was maybe better than what I would have written to moderate a community when a member violates the rules and says something offensive.”
David Spinks Mar 16, 2023 ▶ 33:35 The Power of Sabbaticals in the Age of AI: Embracing Change for Success
Insight
Spinks: People only realize the extent of burnout after completely stopping work
“Burnout is something that you aren't always totally aware of in the moment, or you might know that you're tired or you're exhausted but you don't really know the extent. That's the kind of thing that like, until you stop everything, like you put everything dow…”
David Spinks Mar 16, 2023 ▶ 1:19 The Power of Sabbaticals in the Age of AI: Embracing Change for Success
Insight
Spinks: Communities Revolving Around One Leader Are Overly Centralized and Unhealthy
“If your community revolves all around you, that's probably a red flag to begin with, that it's very it's overly centered on, on one person, and you're not creating more of a distributed sense of connection and responsibility and leadership.”
David Spinks Mar 16, 2023 ▶ 6:43 The Power of Sabbaticals in the Age of AI: Embracing Change for Success
Insight
Spinks: Using bots for FAQs pushes communities toward higher quality discussions
“If a bot can help answer, you know, the top hundred most commonly asked questions, then that will lead your members to ask more specific, more nuanced questions, go into more detail, and that will lead to better conversations as well.”
David Spinks Mar 16, 2023 ▶ 12:42 The Power of Sabbaticals in the Age of AI: Embracing Change for Success
Insight
Spinks: AI Leadership Could Enable Truly Member-Driven Communities
“A bot might actually be the most efficient way to get to that point where, yeah, a community is literally all about the members, because the leadership, the facilitation, the introductions, the sourcing the right content, the moderation, all that can be done b…”
David Spinks Mar 16, 2023 ▶ 20:03 The Power of Sabbaticals in the Age of AI: Embracing Change for Success
Insight
Spinks: AI bots cannot replicate human connection built on shared trauma
“Bots don't have trauma and humans connect around trauma. They connect around those shared experiences.”
David Spinks Mar 16, 2023 ▶ 22:26 The Power of Sabbaticals in the Age of AI: Embracing Change for Success
Disclosure
Spinks: Considering launching an investment fund for community-based companies
“One thing I thought about is doing a sort of fund for community, so being able to invest in community-based companies and community-based software”
David Spinks Mar 16, 2023 ▶ 41:10 The Power of Sabbaticals in the Age of AI: Embracing Change for Success

The other half of the tape: David Spinks's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 3 times in 2 episodes on the Startup Ideas Podcast. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →

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Statements about David Spinks, by other people (1)

Opinion
Isenberg: Proofreading AI output makes claiming human authorship ethically acceptable
“I think if the bot makes the decision to like send the email, then to me, the ethics, the ethical thing to do is to be like, this was sent by a bot. But if David Spinks is behind, you know, chat GPT in the sense that he put it, you put, you prompted it, you lo…”
Greg Isenberg Mar 16, 2023 ▶ 27:58 The Power of Sabbaticals in the Age of AI: Embracing Change for Success

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The Power of Sabbaticals in the Age of AI: Embracing Change for Success Mar 16, 2023 35m
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