AI Disclosure, Deepfakes & the Death of Expertise — Dean Guedo & Jeb Stuart Johnston — #404

Dean Guedo is an Edmonton, Alberta-based online nutrition coach and strength/nutrition professional with roughly a decade in fitness, athletics and strength sports, and Jeb Stuart Johnston is a National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach and the Charleston, SC-based founder of Food on the Mind, specializing in emotional eating and food obsession.

Dean and Jeb join Dr. Mike T Nelson for their yearly AI check-in, getting into whether creators should disclose AI use and why deepfaked video is a very different beast than AI-assisted writing. The conversation ranges into dead internet theory, why so much hard-won fitness expertise never made it onto the internet at all, and why demanding physical skills may become more valuable, not less, as AI accelerates.

Expect to learn whether creators should disclose their AI use and why deepfaked video is a fundamentally different risk category than AI-assisted writing, why LLM writing may have already "peaked" and regresses toward the average, why fitness's hard-won oral tradition (Charlie Francis, Louie Simmons, old forums) never made it onto the internet at all, why oral defense of your own thinking may be the most AI-proof skill you can build, and why demanding physical skills could become more valuable — not less — as AI accelerates, and much more.

Connect with Dean:

• Instagram: @walk.more.king
• Website: getfluxed.ca

Connect with Jeb:

• Website: foodonthemind.com
• Instagram: @jebstuartjohnston
• Newsletter: Tangential, Inconsequential, Existential and Experiential (Substack)

Episodes you'll enjoy next:

• Episode 136 — Flex Diet, Phys Flex, Metabolism and Nutrition Research for Compound Performance (Jeb and Dean interview Dr. Mike T Nelson): Listen here
• S2 Ep 28 — High Flux Model and More for Fat Loss and Client Coaching, an interview with Dean Guedo and Jeb Johnston of StrongerU: Listen here

Episode Timestamps:

• 01:35 Welcome to the podcast & guest introductions
• 03:15 Should you disclose your AI use?
• 06:32 Deepfake video vs. AI-assisted writing: a different risk category
• 07:53 AI's exponential growth and the "singularity" question
• 11:11 What is "AI slop," and does it actually matter?
• 12:42 Why LLMs regress toward average (and the Reddit problem)
• 15:15 Falsely accused of "AI slop" for your own writing style
• 21:36 "Automate your business with AI" — the wrong things to automate
• 25:23 Dead internet theory: has AI writing already peaked?
• 26:34 Why AI can't reason about truly novel, hypothetical situations
• 28:37 Hemingway's unfinished-thought trick and "open-loop" thinking with AI
• 35:06 Why weird, opinionated writing might be AI-proof
• 44:49 Fitness's lost oral tradition: Charlie Francis, Louie Simmons, old forums
• 47:03 Stoner, the trivium, and teaching without teaching
• 48:06 Oral defense as the AI-proof assessment
• 56:08 Research vs. coaching: the application gap (Norwegian 4x4, tabata)
• 1:07:26 Will AI push us back toward hard physical skills?
• 1:15:00 Where to find Jeb & Dean

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