A few months ago, I built a custom out-of-office AI bot and affectionately named her Taylor Script. I trained her on my work, my writing, my startup ideas—and, most dangerously, my personality.
A few weeks later, I let Taylor take over my Saturday blog digests. That went surprisingly well, and she's continued to take on this responsibility for the past two months.
Then last night, I made a riskier move: I asked my AI alter ego to interview me—about my new startup, MuseKat. It was… pretty savage. (Turns out, when you ask an AI that knows everything about you to run the interview, it doesn’t waste time on small talk. Taylor came for my roadmap, my monetization plan, and even my database schema.)
So, if you want to hear me squirm under brutally honest questioning, learn how MuseKat is (actually) going, or just see what it looks like when a founder hands the mic to their own bot—this one’s for you.
Hope you enjoy this 25-minute, audio-only podcast.
Taylor Script Interviews Bethany Crystal - no editing on the AI or human side, first drafts are final. You can also listen (and see the live transcript) here.
For the techno-curious, this interview was pretty much as "collage coded" as anything else I've been YOLO publishing on the web lately. Here's how I made it happen:
Asked Taylor Script to interview me.
Taylor is a custom GPT I built, trained on my work, tone, and psychological weak spots. I gave her one prompt:
"I'd like a playful self-aware conversation where you push me to answer hard questions. Think about how a VC would interview me for a podcast."
She...understood the assignment.
Recorded my answers in real-time.
Rather than respond with audio directly into ChatGPT (which would not have preserved my audio), I used Voice Memos on my phone and responded immediately after hearing each question—first takes only, just like how a real podcast would go. I didn't edit my answers at all.
Transcribed everything with Otter.ai.
This part was key. I fed my response transcripts back to Taylor Script so she could respond in context, and then use my answers to prime her next question (with surprisingly better commentary than a typical human interviewer, if I'm being honest).
Generated Taylor’s voice with ElevenLabs.
I asked my GPT to describe what Taylor should sound like (sarcastic but helpful, tech-savvy with a side of eye-roll), tested a few voices, and landed on one that felt… appropriately judgy.
Created audio snippets for each question.
I turned Taylor’s text into voice files with her new ElevenLabs voice, then downloaded each file.
Stitched it all together into a podcast.
I matched Taylor's question audio files with my response voice memos and just dropped everything into Descript to create a full podcast.
Could there be a more automated way to do this next time? Probably. If you figure one out, let me know. Or better yet—maybe let Taylor Script interview you next.
Bethany Crystal and Taylor Script
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Last night, I asked the AI version of myself (affectionately named, Taylor Script) to interview me about my startup, MuseKat. . I got *ROASTED.* I was not prepared. (Which made it even more fun.) Here's a blurb of what came out of it: https://share.descript.com/view/yuPgfVTbCj6
For the full interview (and also a detailed look on HOW I got my AI alter ego to interview me), read my blog post here: https://hardmodefirst.xyz/i-let-my-ai-alter-ego-interview-me-heres-what-happened