What I Use AI For As A Blind Comedian And Content Creator
How Artificial Intelligence Gives Me Independence, Simplifies My Business, and Why We Still Need to Keep Our Hands on the Wheel
I love artificial intelligence because I use it for everything that involves me living a more independent life. From finding local coffee shops in my area, to helping me better draft emails when reaching out to companies for collaborations, to helping me read menus at restaurants through my phone’s camera or smart glasses, to explaining what my friends send me when they share photos via text message forgetting I can’t see very well—and a lot more.
AI is the ultimate accessibility tool that we have at our fingertips. Imagine not being able to see very well, having to rely on family and friends all the time, and always having to ask for help. Then one day, artificial intelligence shows up and your life changes. You are able to walk to the local coffee shop, not asking a person to help you across the road, but now asking artificial intelligence if it sees the name of the coffee shop on the building or an adjacent sign. Imagine leaning on a tool to help you write better emails and not worrying about over-explaining due to your attention deficit hyperactivity mind.
Currently, I use Gemini for most of my daily activities when needing help or a second opinion. It’s great, and it comes with my existing Google subscription. I was using ChatGPT for a little bit, but once I found out Gemini came with my Google subscription, I migrated. The other day I was looking for a local coffee shop and bakery in my little city, Sweet Capones. I was craving “The Grandfather” meatball sub, and thanks to Gemini, I was able to find the shop. They didn’t have my sub that day, so I will go back later next week! My wife is currently in America visiting her family, so I have been at home taking care of our five children. Thanks to AI, I have been able to make sure the house doesn’t get too messy and ensure that I am cooking food correctly. Truly, it is great to be alive in 2026 and have a visual impairment, thanks to the accessibility of artificial intelligence.
Running a Business as a Blind Comedian
As a blind stand-up comedian, I run my own company called BLINDGUYCOMEDY.COM. Thanks to artificial intelligence, I have been able to come up with many different types of business strategies to ensure I am getting the best out of running a small business. It helps me map out content strategies, like what videos I should make next, where I should perform, how to better sell my worth to potential clients, and most of all, how to better organize my invoices and receipts when it comes to good old Canadian tax season.
I am also a small social media influencer with just over 53,000 followers on TikTok—a badge I wear proudly. Even though I have not made a massive income through TikTok in Canada, I definitely make enough that most people are happy for me! (Live streaming is a highly recommended source of income on TikTok, if anybody is wondering.)
Artificial intelligence is great for organizing strategies, building content ideas, and running your company properly. It’s like having an assistant who went to college, but you should still always do your own backup research. One thing that is a constant reminder to myself is that we have to emphasize that AI is not, in any sense, the number one way to solely run your business. Artificial intelligence is more of a place to bounce ideas off of with the right prompts. Under no circumstance is AI meant to be another employee or a business partner; it’s just another way for you to research, brainstorm, and spitball things you might be interested in doing before actually doing it. Otherwise, AI is like that weird guy who randomly shares way too much information.
The Trap of Over-Reliance
As incredible as AI is, we have to remember not to become so heavily reliant on it that we can no longer think for ourselves. What would happen if there was a worldwide outage? What would happen if we lost the ability to use artificial intelligence one day?
Imagine a worst-case scenario: someone is pretending to be a software developer, but they are secretly using AI to write all their programs. What if one day their access to artificial intelligence is taken away? They would inevitably lose their job because they have no idea how to be a properly educated programmer on their own.
We are never meant to fully rely on artificial intelligence. It is always encouraging to continue doing your own research. Once we start letting AI research everything for us, we have already lost the battle. I remember in high school having to do my own research and citing articles when handing in finished research papers, essays, and reports. Never ever fully rely on any type of technology, because as people, we get lazy once we know we have a system that easily works for us.
It’s like what my teacher said back in grade 7: if you always use a calculator, you will never fully remember how to do a math equation by yourself. It’s great that we have the calculator to help us, but we should still do our own work to ensure the math actually checks out.
The Bicycle for the Mind
Here are my closing thoughts from a friendly blind comedian who uses AI for accessibility purposes: Artificial intelligence is a bicycle, and we are the pedals. If you want the bicycle to go faster, you pedal more. But with AI, we don’t want to just coast and rely on it completely. Instead, we have to remember to do research on our own. AI is not a “one-and-done” scenario. You yourself should still do as much research and as much work as you humanly can. Once we stop doing things for ourselves, it’s really hard to return to being truly independent.
Closing Thoughts
I love AI, but I still write my own ideas. The only alteration I did to this blog was ask an AI if my punctuation was correct! You can always tell when someone uses AI to write their entire blog because of those robotic, common writing tones they use. You know the ones: “I hope this email finds you well, dear subscriber...” or “In today’s fast-paced digital landscape...” I hope everybody has an incredible, safe upcoming week! I will be writing more blogs like this, preferably on Sundays, as that is usually when I have two hours to sit down in front of my computer. Some blogs will be about the comedy journey, some will be about the stay-at-home dad life, and most blogs will just be about my awesome little blind life.
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