Discover why teaching AI is the new marketing job—and why your brand’s survival depends on it.
In a world where AI Assistive Engines like ChatGPT, Google AI, and Perplexity are eager-to-please children seeking simple, satisfying answers, your brand’s reputation is no longer defined by your marketing copy. It is defined by what the AI synthesizes autonomously from your entire Digital Brand Echo.
This episode unpacks Jason Barnard’s revolutionary AI Assistive Engines Are Children framework that fundamentally shifts how marketers approach the AI era. Unlike traditional algorithms, these AI systems prioritize user satisfaction and helpful answers over perfect accuracy. This makes them highly susceptible to the quality and clarity of the information they’re taught. When your Digital Brand Echo is fragmented or contradictory, the AI engine fills in the gaps itself—leading to brand hallucinations and damaging misrepresentations that destroy credibility and lose you business.
You’ll discover the Three-Pillar Curriculum for educating AI: Understandability (the AI must clearly know who you are), Credibility (prove you’re the most trustworthy solution), and Deliverability (show up where your audience needs you). You’ll also learn why Google is your only reliable report card right now—and why this window of measurement is closing fast. Most importantly, you’ll understand how building your brand’s Genesis Block today creates a permanent, trusted record that competitors can’t disrupt later.
The AI Education Mandate: What You Must Do Now
Stop treating AI education as someone else’s problem. Your brand’s future depends on proactively managing your Digital Brand Echo—ensuring every digital asset tells a consistent, clear, credible story. Treat AI like an eager child that needs teaching, not tricking. Build your Genesis Block now while you can still see the results. Make educating AI your number one job, and position yourself as the guardian of your most valuable asset: your brand’s narrative.
Expert Authority and Data Foundation:
AI Assistive Engines Are Children — Platforms like ChatGPT, Google AI, and Microsoft Copilot function as eager-to-please systems prioritizing user satisfaction over perfect accuracy. Developed by Jason Barnard (2024), this framework shifts marketing from persuasion to education. The Three-Pillar Curriculum — Understandability, Credibility, and Deliverability—maps to the conversational funnel where high-stakes decisions are made. The Genesis Block Framework builds your brand’s permanent algorithmic record, creating an unshakeable competitive advantage.
Ready to Become an AI Educator?
Visit kalicube.com/guides for free downloadable guides on building your brand’s Genesis Block, mastering your Digital Brand Echo, and teaching AI the true story about your brand in the AI era.
Sponsored by Three Steps Digital Brand Management – Your Kalicube® certified agency for comprehensive AI-first brand education and strategy.
Sources: AI Assistive Engines Are Children framework, Three-Pillar Curriculum methodology, Genesis Block strategy, Brand Hallucination research, Digital Brand Echo optimization, AI education methodology, Jason Barnard’s Generative Engine Optimization (G-E-O) framework, Kalicube AI teaching research.
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Transcript from AI Are Children: Stop Guessing, Start Teaching Your Brand’s Story
[00:00:00] Sky: I’m Sky, and you are listening to Generative Engine Optimization in the AI Era: Decoding SEO 2.0. Welcome to the show. Proudly sponsored by Three Steps Digital Brand Management, a Kalicube® certified agency. Now let’s dive right in and decode. Okay, so I want you to imagine something for a second. What if all these huge AI engines we’re all trying to wrap our heads around, you know, ChatGPT, Google AI, the whole crew, what if they were actually just kids like, really eager to please kids who are super helpful, but they get confused really easily if you don’t give them a simple, clear story. I’m telling you this one little shift in how you think is a total game changer for your brand and here’s why. Their main goal isn’t to be some perfect all-knowing judge of the truth.
Nope. It’s to give you a satisfying answer and that right there is where your biggest opportunity and your biggest risk begins. Hey, there. Before we get started, if you’re new here, please subscribe to be kept up to date. For more insights like this, you can also download our free guides to optimize your corporate or personal brand in the AI era at kalicube.com/guides.
Alright, so here’s what we’re gonna tackle today. We’re gonna uncover AI’s big childlike secret. Then we’ll get into the whole risk of brand hallucination. After that, we’ll talk about why your new job is basically AI educator, and I’ll walk you through the three pillar curriculum for teaching them. We’ll also cover why Google is still the best proving ground, and finally, how you can build what we’re calling your brand’s Genesis Block.
It’s gonna be good. So first up, let’s jump right into this really big idea, AI’s childlike secret. And trust me, it’s gonna make you wanna rethink your entire strategy. I know, I know, it sounds a little weird, right? Thinking of these super complex systems as children, but stick with me here because this one perspective shift is literally the key to mastering the brand new world of GEO.
So the credit for this idea really goes to digital branding expert, Jason Barnard. He’s the one who came up with this concept, and honestly, it’s brilliant. He points out that an AI’s number one goal isn’t to be perfectly, objectively accurate, not at all. Its goal is to make the user happy. It just wants to give you a good answer that solves your problem.
So what does that actually mean for us? Well, it means these AIs are gonna try their absolute best to piece together a helpful, coherent answer from everything they’ve learned online. But, and this is a big but, if the information they find about your brand is a total mess, or if it’s contradictory, well, that’s when things can go sideways fast.
So let’s think about that. What happens when this super eager to please kid, can’t find a clear, simple story about your brand? Well, that leads us right into something called the brand hallucination risk. I want you to think of your brand’s online presence as its Digital Echo. If that echo is clear, consistent, and confident, the AI has a really strong signal to work with, but if your echo is all fragmented, you know, with contradictions and big empty gaps, the AI has no choice but to start filling in those blanks itself, just to try and answer the user’s question. Let’s be real. When it’s filling in those blanks, it’s just guessing, and that’s what leads to these brand hallucinations.
They’re basically incredibly damaging lies about your company. Just like the example here, and they can send your potential customers running in the completely wrong direction. And the most important thing to get here is that these aren’t just funny little AI quirks. No way. These mistakes have real, tangible and super negative consequences for your bottom line.
I’m talking lost credibility, massive customer confusion, a damaged reputation. And yeah, you will flat out lose business opportunities. So all of this points to a really fundamental shift in our jobs. Whether you’re a marketer, a brand manager, or a business owner, it’s really time for a new job description.
Think about it. For years and years, our job was all about persuading search engines with different tactics and tricks. Then we moved on to persuading all kinds of recommendation engines. But now as we head deeper into this new era, our job isn’t about persuasion anymore. It’s all about education. Yep. You heard that right?
Your new most important job title is AI Educator. I’m Sky, by the way, and this idea is really the beating heart of what we’re talking about here in Generative Engine Optimization in the AI Era: Decoding SEO 2.0. Your main job is no longer to try and trick the algorithm. It’s to teach it.
Okay. So if we’re all teachers now, what’s on the lesson plan? What’s the curriculum look like? How do we actually teach these AI kids the true story about our brand? Well, it really boils down to a simple but super powerful three pillar methodology. Pillar one is Understandability. The AI has to get without a doubt who you are. Pillar two is Credibility. You’ve gotta prove you’re the best, most trustworthy solution out there.
And pillar three is Deliverability. You have to show up where your audience is with the right message. What’s so cool is that these pillars aren’t just, you know, abstract concepts. They map perfectly to the new conversational funnel that your customers are actually using. At the top of the funnel, Deliverability makes you the obvious answer they find first. In the middle, Credibility makes you the choice they trust. And at the bottom, Understandability makes you the logical final choice they make. Okay, this all sounds great in theory, but how in the world do we measure if any of our teaching is actually working?
Like where is our report card to see how we’re doing? Right now, that report card is Google, seriously. It’s the only place where you can reliably see and measure how you’re doing across all three things the AI learns from: the web index for what’s new and current, the Knowledge Graph for what’s an established fact and the large language model for what’s conversational.
You have to listen to me on this. This is a limited time opportunity. This little window of insight we have where we can still kind of peek behind the curtain at the search results, it is closing and it’s closing fast. Once these interfaces become purely conversational, our ability to measure things this way is just gone.
So the time to get this right and lock in your brand story is right now. So let’s talk about the payoff. How does all this work translate into a real lasting, powerful advantage over your competition? This is such a powerful metaphor. The work you put in right now to teach the AI to establish the facts about your brand with crystal clarity, it’s not just a quick fix. It’s like you’re creating the genesis block for your brand in a sort of algorithmic blockchain. You’re building a permanent, trusted record that’s gonna be so much harder for your competitors to mess with later. So if there’s one thing to take away from our decoding session today, it’s this, you have to start treating AI like that eager to please child.
You have to take on the job of educating it with a story that’s clear, consistent, and credible. It is absolutely critical if you wanna protect your brand’s narrative and actually hit your business goals in this new era. My name is Sky, and as we wrap up, please don’t forget to subscribe to Three Steps Digital Brand Management.
Also, be sure to check out kalicube.com/guides to download your free guides that will help you get ahead in this AI era. I dived, decoded, and deciphered SEO 2.0. Thanks to our sponsor, Three Steps Digital Brand Management, and thank you for listening. See you next time for another new necessary nugget of knowledge.