I Don’t Like AI
I’ve tried using AI in the past, and I’m glad I did. It taught me a lot about how to recognise AI written content. I played around with AI written articles and quickly noticed patterns. The same phrases used over and over, the same little dashes used instead of commas. The same corny words used to start sentences. It became repetitive and soulless.
So, it didn’t take long for me to abandon AI as a writing companion. However, I thought it was probably still handy for editing my work because I make a lot of mistakes. Use it as a tool right?
And yeah, AI is great for fixing my spelling mistakes, my grammar, and anything that just doesn’t flow the way it “should”. But even that felt wrong to me. AI would change my writing to be perfect! You might think, “well that’s great!” We want our writing to be perfect before publishing it right? Well, I think not.
The more I read other people’s work and see these perfectly AI written posts, the more I can’t stand reading anymore. At least online. I want the humanness back. I want the clunky sentences and the spelling mistakes. I want to enjoy getting to know a real person through their writing, not a robot.
I’m sure there are many uses for AI as a tool. I haven’t found this yet, but I will keep an open mind. But for now, anything that is creative can only be done by a human. Creativity needs emotion, struggle, and well, a soul. We want to make people feel something, or understand what’s going on in our heads. AI can’t do that. That’s why AI “creativity” feels empty. Because it IS empty.
I really hope AI articles die out soon. I want more human-creativity. I miss reading real work. I’m sure it’s still out there somewhere, but right now it’s being drowned out.
If you are a real writer, please let me know. I want to read your work. I want to connect with the humanness that used to dominate our world. And hopefully will again soon.
Don’t be perfect, be you :)