So the biggest mistake people make when using ChatGPT to write YouTube video scripts is giving the AI the wrong prompts. So the question is: What are the right prompts? Since its release I've been playing around with ChatGPT and I've been using it to write some YouTube videos scripts.
So in this video, I'm going to be sharing my research, I'm going to be sharing my secrets, and I'm going to be showing some of the best prompts to put together the perfect YouTube video script that gets views on YouTube. So let's say I'm making a video about assembling a skateboard, right, it would be called 'How to Build a Skateboard'. We're going to start with that.
And by the way, in this video, I'm going to be starting simple and I'm going to keep on fine tuning and showing you the prompts that I use to get the best out of ChatGPT to craft the perfect YouTube video script. So why skateboarding? Well because it's important to have knowledge on the topic that you are creating about.
And that's something that I'm going to cover a little later on in this video and you understand as we go along. Let's prompt; 'what do I need to build a skateboard? ' And from this prompt, as you can see, we've got some decent info and I could have thought of this all by myself but the time that it would have taken me just to research and also just to remember what goes into assembling a skateboard would have taken me a lot longer than just prompting the AI and it's possible that I would have even forgotten one of the components when putting my script together.
And now here it gives me every component that goes into a skateboard, with a brief explanation each time of how every single component works, and I've even got an optional component right here. And some of you might be wondering 'Why didn't you ask it to write a YouTube video script? ' Well that's the next thing that we're going to do.
So here I'm going to prompt it: 'Write a YouTube video script about how to build a skateboard'. And here you're going to notice a few things in ChatGPT's response: the first thing is that it gives us an intro to the actual YouTube video and this can be helpful when you're lost for inspiration but these parts are often the parts of the video that make it unique to you. So I like to write my own intros and hooks but you can use ChatGPT to spice up and to make your intros better and that's something that we're going to cover a little later on in this video, I'm going to show you exactly how to do that.
The second thing you'll notice is that it gives us the same list of information that we got from the first prompt. And this is because ChatGPT knows that a tutorial about how to build a skateboard will require the list of components that the viewer will need to assemble the skateboard. So we could have just skipped the very first prompt and gone straight to this one, but I'll show you later on why those questions can also be very good and it's important not to skip them.
Then the third thing you might have noticed is that it tells us how to actually then use the components and assemble them together in five easy steps. And at this point you might be thinking okay 'well this is great I've now got my script I can just go ahead and copy this and we're done'. Wrong!
The reason we're not done is because this prompt is way too broad and YouTube is all about satisfying the viewer so if a beginner skateboarder came to this video and watched it all the way through, they would actually be missing information, and this is why at the beginning of the video I actually mentioned why it's important to know the topic that you're creating about and that you're prompting ChatGPT with, because otherwise, you're going to end up creating low quality content which leads to a lower retention time on YouTube which doesn't help your videos go far in YouTube's algorithm. And that's because YouTube is all about providing the right value to your viewers. And I know just by reading it, this video script isn't finished or isn't great because I know a lot about skateboarding so it's important to know what you're prompting about.
And so what can we prompt ChatGPT to make sure that we're not missing any information? Well, because I know the subject that I'm writing about, or should I say that ChatGPT is writing about for me, I know what info is missing. So for example, it mentions you need a skateboard deck, and this is where I need to dig a little further because there are different sizes to a skate deck which can play a significant role in learning skateboarding.
So I could then ask 'What is the best skateboard deck size for beginners? ' And then ChatGPT gives me the following answer and, as you can see, it goes in depth on some of the information that is really valuable to know when buying your first skateboard deck. So the key here is to ask ChatGPT to elaborate on specific points of the script it generated for you.
So I could take this section and then fit it into the second response that I got and that would be a more valuable and in-depth script, but then there's a common issue that arises with ChatGPT, and that is that the responses that AI gives can sometimes be too knowledgeable, and this is because the AI or ChatGPT can't actually gauge who it's giving the response to. And let me tell you why this is a problem. Let's say you're making a video about something a little more complex.
Imagine you're a mechanic and you're making a video about cars. You're making a video script about how cars work so you decide to prompt ChatGPT: 'How do cars work? ' You'll get some good responses, prompt a little further and then you might think 'nice, again my work is done', copy the script, and then start recording your video but for this one, we actually need to go backwards, we don't want more in-depth detail.
The problem here is that cars are rather complex and so the response we get is actually pretty complex and someone's searching for and watching a video about how cars work most likely doesn't know anything about cars, just like myself, and if you want to grow on YouTube, you need to boost your retention just like we mentioned earlier, and to do that, you need to make your videos easy to follow but if you start talking about in-depth details at the beginning of your video, on your explanation, to a complete beginner, they're not going to understand what you're talking about and then they'll click off and find a video that explains it better. So you need to start out simple in the script and slowly go into detail later. So what should we ask ChatGPT to make our video script simpler?
Well, after the complicated response, all I did was prompt: 'Please simplify your response above' or you could even just copy the text prompt and then 'say please simplify the following' and then paste the text. And then ChatGPT will actually reword the text and make it simpler for car newbies, just like myself, to understand. And you can actually keep on doing this and it'll make it simpler and simpler and simpler every single time.
And this is what I've actually found to be pretty impressive with ChatGPT: it's that you can reword your script with AI to suit your video's aim a lot better. And let me explain here, because I think this is actually really important. Let's go back to the skateboard deck size prompt that we were talking about earlier in this video.
It was very valuable info but not written super well for audience retention, so after that prompt, I actually decided to write: Can you make the above text more intriguing? ' And as you can see, if we put the two side by side, there's quite the difference. It's not amazing, but it makes the text a lot more intriguing and relatable.
For example, instead of 'the best skateboard deck size for beginners', it starts out with 'if you're just starting out on your skateboarding journey' which is a lot more relatable because most people watching the video will just be starting out on a skateboarding journey. And then, there are also other words in the second prompt when I asked it to make it more intriguing words like 'remember' and 'the simple answer' which insinuate that there's more complex answers and more to come. Basically, it just words it differently: that makes the viewers watch the video longer.
And you can then actually take this method and do it in so many different ways, depending on what emotion you're trying to convey in your video. You could ask it to make the video sadder, you could ask it to make it more exciting, you could ask it to make it happier, more depressing. Any emotion you want, just give it to the text and ask it to make the text more 'something'.
I think that is actually really cool and this is important because emotion is a great way to keep the viewer watching but before you even captivate your viewer with emotion, you need to actually hook them into the video. And earlier in the video again, I mentioned that we can actually make better hooks using ChatGPT. And so, how would we make a better intro using ChatGPT?
So here, I myself wrote a quick intro together and this was without ChatGPT. So I wrote 'What's up guys? Alec here and today I'm going to show you how to assemble your first skateboard if you've just started out skateboarding or you're interested in starting out.
In this video, I show you everything you need to know to get going. ' And so that's my intro and now what I do is I head to ChatGPT and I ask it the following: 'This is my intro for the next YouTube video about assembling a new skateboard for beginners' then I paste the text that I wrote. 'Can you make it better?
Please try and hook the viewer in so they watch it all the way until the end of the video. ' And this is what I got: 'Hey skateboarders and aspiring skateboarders! Are you ready to take the next step and assemble your own skateboard?
Look no further because in this video I'm going to guide you through the process, step by step. Whether you're a beginner or just looking to brush up on your skills, this video has got you covered so grab your deck trucks wheels and bearings and let's get ready to roll! Trust me, there's no better feeling than cruising on a board you built with your own two hands!
See you in the video! ' So as you can see, this one's got a lot more emotion and a lot more relatable points. I don't know like to you, me reading both of them back to back it probably just sounded way more enticing.
And the funny thing about this is that I actually just talked to ChatGPT as if it was a regular person. Some people like to overthink it and try to calculate what their prompts need to be but most of the time, you just don't need to and the funny thing is again is that it probably did the job better than most people would have. Just look at how reworded some of the sentences to make the intro more enticing.
Skip back and honestly compare the two. And I'm going to end this video on a list of tips that I found useful when writing YouTube scripts and other text-based content but before I do, you need to understand one thing: you need to understand that ChatGPT isn't going to help you write a five-star script, a 10 out of 10 script, 100%, top-notch, flawless YouTube video script but it is going to help you speed up the process, so much! I used it on my last video and that video is doing pretty well.
As you saw throughout this video, I'm no longer scrolling through Google, looking for in-depth various answers. ChatGPT is actually bringing them to me, just by me giving it a few sentences. But anyway, with that being said, here are six rules that I've written down while doing my research to live by when using ChatGPT to write better YouTube video scripts.
Number one: create your script in multiple prompts. Number two: be specific if the answers are lacking content or context. Number three: if something is too complex, ask it to simplify so your viewers can follow along.
Number four: ask it to reword text to make it more appealing, intriguing, or emotional. And to get some of the secret sauce in your script, prompt it with 'What's something not many people know about X? ' or 'What's a common misconception with?
' and with this one, I've actually got some really good answers and I've learned some information that even I didn't know about certain topics. And then finally, number six: remember, don't just blatantly copy and paste, curate your script from the answers you get. And with that being said, thank you for watching this video!
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Peace!
