Just Because You Can Doesn't Mean You Should: Using AI Without Losing Your Voice (with Rhiannon Lee)

Just Because You Can Doesn't Mean You Should: Using AI Without Losing Your Voice (with Rhiannon Lee)

June 9, 2026 · 51 min · Season 8 · Episode 13

About this episode

This episode features a conversation about using AI tools while maintaining personal creativity and voice.

Everyone's either terrified of AI or shouting that you're behind. This episode is neither. Rebeka sits down with Rhiannon Lee - founder of Oleander and Finch and one of the design industry's clearest voices on AI - for the most honest conversation we've had about using these tools without losing yourself in them. If you've ever opened ChatGPT to save half an hour and lost half a day, this one's for you. In this episode: Why nobody is the expert - and why that's good news, not bad ChatGPT goes wide, Claude goes deep: how Rhiannon actually uses each one The real reason some people get magic out of AI and others get bland mush (hint: it's your foundations, not your tool) Where AI quietly becomes dangerous - the confident subdivision advice that could cost hundreds of thousands Why a hallucination isn't a lie, it's a plausible answer that isn't real Staying the creative director: the part of your work that never gets outsourced The automation trap, and why two good posts beat twenty bland ones Keeping your business off the tool - own your foundations in a platform that's yours A line worth sitting with: "You're the creative director. Creativity sits under your role and it doesn't get…

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