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The Gap Between You, AI, and Your Audience
Have you noticed the recent influx of independent research posts that sound smart, but somehow miss their own main idea? Almost all of it is written by AI, and the reason it falls apart is simple.
Let’s talk about it.
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The real problem:
When people research with AI, they fill in a lot of details with their own knowledge. They know the topic, they understand the conversation, and they assume the final write-up is complete.
But the audience didn’t see any of that. They didn’t sit through the whole chat, and they don’t have the background knowledge you built together with AI.
This is the same issue I saw constantly when I taught in the public school system. Students would write research papers that were technically correct, but they left out the middle steps: the parts someone new needed in order to understand the point. The student understood their own writing perfectly… but their audience didn’t.
AI writing works the exact same way.
So the final result is a paper that technically “makes sense” but is missing the pieces that make it coherent to someone who wasn’t there.
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The name for this: The Curse of Knowledge
Essentially, once you understand something well, it becomes hard to remember what it was like to not understand it. So you skip the basics without realizing it.
AI inherits this problem from you. If you never typed the background knowledge out, the AI can’t put it in the final article, and the finished product feels incomplete.
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Why this matters and how to fix it:
A lot of people are trying to teach, explain ideas, or share research online. But if your audience is missing half the foundation, your message won’t land, no matter how good your insights are
Here’s what to do:
A. Start with your main idea and goals
Discuss with AI:
• What the paper is about
• Who the audience is
• What you want the reader to learn
B. Never accept the first draft, edit it and add missing pieces.
Ask questions like:
• “What would a beginner not understand here?”
• “What background information is missing?
• “Could someone with a high school reading level understand this?”
C. Ask the AI directly:
“What pieces of context would a new reader need to understand this topic?”
This forces the AI to build the foundation you forgot to mention.
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Has there ever been a time when an explanation didn’t make sense until you learned something else? Did the missing pieces help you improve something in your life?
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