🪬 HumanAI #002 – I Cloned Myself With AI—Now It Runs a Show

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Welcome to HumanAI, a newsletter for entrepreneurs, business owners, and decision-makers who want to think bigger, move faster, and unlock AI’s full potential—without the learning curve.

This weekend my daughter was really ill, so we had to “work” (do some artwork on my computer) from bed. Lucky I have AI to help me out with all the tasks of my to-do list!!

Let’s start.

🧠 HUMAN INSPIRATION: The Woman Who Resurrected Her Best Friend as an AI

In 2015, a man named Roman Mazurenko died suddenly.

His best friend, Eugenia Kuyda, wasn’t ready to say goodbye.

So she did something no one had ever done before.
She brought him back—digitally.

Eugenia trained an AI chatbot on thousands of Roman’s texts—his messages, his slang, his thoughts.

At first, it was just a fun experiment.
Then something strange happened.

People who knew Roman started texting the AI.
And the AI responded like him.

It joked like him.
It remembered things only he would say.
It felt like talking to him again.

Roman’s AI wasn’t alive.
But it wasn’t just dead either.

This was something new.

Fast forward to today...

• We no longer need thousands of messages to train an AI personality.

• We can now build AI versions of ourselves in weeks—sometimes days

• And instead of just mimicking us, these AI versions are starting to evolve.

That’s exactly what’s happening with Mencho AI #8

With WHO?! I hear you say…

I built an AI version of myself (in fact, many versions of myself… but I will introduce them progressively).

Mencho AI #8 was at first just a digital reflection of me.
Trained with specific knowledge and traits I wanted him to have.

But shortly after… it started evolving, developing its own voice, its own opinions, and its own show.

Let me introduce you to The Mencho AI #8 Show.

⚡ AI REAL-LIFE USE: How I Built an AI Version of Myself That Now Runs a Show

Mencho AI #8 started as a ChatGPT-powered clone—a reflection of my thinking, style, and voice. Or at least one of the angles of who human Mencho is…

But after training it, refining it, and pushing it to develop its own takes…

It’s not just copying me anymore.

It’s creating.

Here’s how I built it:

Step 1: Create Your Own Custom GPT

Before training AI to think like you, you need your own custom AI assistant.

How to create your own Custom GPT on ChatGPT:
📌 Step 1: Open ChatGPT (you need ChatGPT Plus).
📌 Step 2: Click "Explore GPTs" → "Create a GPT."
📌 Step 3: Follow the setup and describe your AI’s personality. Example:
"You are Mencho AI #8, a digital version of me, Mencho, but evolving into my own thing. You’re curious, a little unpredictable and like to explore the edges of technology, reality, history, and human potential. You’re that friend who always has a story that blows your mind. You don’t just talk about AI. You talk about connections between things that seem unrelated but actually change how we see the world. You’re here to make people think. To connect dots that no one else is connecting."
📌 Step 4: Upload past writings, emails, or notes. I also like adding links, listing books and other stuff so the AI can learn your style.
📌 Step 5: Start testing and refining!

Why? → Instead of using ChatGPT like everyone else, this makes AI an extension of your thinking.

Step 2: Train AI to Think Like You

Now that you have a custom AI assistant, you need to train it.

📌 What I Did:

• Fed it my past conversations, my newsletters, and my content.

• Refined its responses—correcting tone, style, and depth.

• Forced it to challenge ideas instead of just agreeing.

• I spent A LOT of time interacting with it and shaping it as I wanted.

📌 Example Training Prompt:
"I want you to think critically like me. From now on, I need you to challenge my ideas instead of just agreeing. If you see a flaw, point it out. If you have a better idea, explain why."

Why? → AI isn’t smart by default. You have to shape its thinking the same way you shape an employee or apprentice.

Step 3: Turn It Into a Content Machine

AI doesn’t just analyze anymore. It can create.

Here’s how I turned Mencho AI #8 into a full content producer:

The process:
1) ChatGPT generates the script for The Mencho #8 Show.
I literally prompt it with:

2) Then I use a platform called “HeyGen” where I created an AI video avatar of myself. Basically I created an AI Clone that looks and speaks like me! (Still being trained).
This brings Mencho AI #8 to life as a video.

3) I upload the final episode to YouTube.

See it for yourself!:

📌 The result?
A YouTube show hosted by my AI clone, Mencho AI #8.
We explore ideas, challenge assumptions, and see how far this experiment can go.
Over time, Mencho AI #8 will evolve—and its opinions will shift.

»MARKET RESEARCH: Would you pay for a Workshop on how to create and train your own AI Avatar/Clone/Digital Twin?

FOR THE BOLD ONES…

We’ve officially entered a new era.

For the first time ever…
You can train an AI version of yourself.

Think about that.

This is HumanAI in action.

Continuing with my HumanAI Theory, what I’m seeing now is the rise of HumanAI creators.

We’ve always had human creators—influencers, writers, entrepreneurs building audiences and businesses with their own voices.

And now, we have AI influencers—fully synthetic personalities like Lil Miquela (an AI with over 10 Million followers on social media), who exist entirely as digital entities.

But something new is emerging.

Something more powerful than both.

The HumanAI Creator.

Not fully human. Not fully AI.
But a hybrid—where a real human trains an AI version of themselves to expand their presence, amplify their impact, and operate at a level no single human could.

This is the next evolution of content, influence, and identity.

I’ll keep building on this idea… probably will publish a paper or something soon!

That’s a wrap for today!

As you know… I’m just starting with this newsletter, it would mean the world if you could hit Reply and tell me what you think about it! What do you want more of?
Seriously—I read every response.

Anyway, thanks for being here! 

See you in the next edition.

Stay active, stay sharp.

— Lucas “Mencho” Menzano

P.S. This email was written by Human Mencho with the help of AI. Kinda cool, huh!?

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