Mistakes may rule as we move forward with the experiments of AI.
I’ve been using ChatGPT and Grok occasionally on this blog and other blogs I maintain–kinda, lol. I’m just experimenting, hoping to understand how it can help and, for sure, how it can hurt—meaning, how it can manipulate the conversation depending on how it’s used and how it evolves.
I’m not a great writer. I want to be good enough to get my thoughts out when I feel it’s relevant or to understand and organize my thoughts. I don’t do much of the latter in a public forum. I should.
I run a business, and I want to understand the internet because it’s helped me learn more than I would have otherwise over the last few decades of my life. I use it as a tool, like the library when I was younger. I don’t go to the library much anymore. I should.
You can tell when something is written with AI. It sounds market-y, plastic, almost too perfect, like those ads that show up in a magazine that want you to believe they are part of the publication, but in reality, they are just a few pages of narrative-based advertising. A story to try to get you to pay attention to whatever they are selling.
I’m sure if you read through this blog, especially the previous few posts–;)– you would notice how they read a little differently than others. They’re almost too clean, too SEO heavy, to be a human. And they read that way depending on how you’ve prompted AI. Even then, it’s tough to make the output sound “real.”
I fall into the trap. Instead of working to write better, I spend more time trying to think of better ways to instruct ChatGPT or Grok to write something that might get some traffic. The result oftentimes is something very inorganic.
However, I want traffic just as much as anyone else adding to the internet. I want affiliate clicks like everyone else. Views are gold, followers are a must. It’s a never-ending cycle of attention.
And there’s the catch-22 for me. I want the clicks as much as anyone else. I know it’s about the work you put in, but I still get sucked into the theoretical ease of it all. That you can start a blog, post a video, record a TikTok, and you’ll be making cash like an OnlyFans vixen with two vagina’s–I didn’t think so either; click the link.
So how can you tell if it’s AI or not? Many people can’t. More don’t care. We are moving toward a more falsified society. It’s why the kids want you to “touch some grass“–I love it BTW.
We humans are fallible. We make mistakes. We are beautifully broken. We are flawed. All of us aren’t meant to write the perfect article. The imperfections are what make us unique as individuals. If we lose that, it’s because we are too lazy to think and be creative. We let the computers take over. Then we all become the same boring thing. We become a hive-minded society that is stodgy and boring.
I know, it’s tough not to get sucked into the ease of AI. And if you’re making a shit ton of money utilizing it to the fullest, my hats off to you; make that cash while you can.
I’m going to keep playing with AI. But I’m also going to make the effort not to use AI. Like the internet when I was younger, I want to use it as a tool for knowledge, so I can learn and grow. But back then, I also went out to play with friends, rode bikes through newly forged wooded terrain, and called the boys for a pickup basketball game. You know, I touched some grass.
See, I like the real world. I build things in the real world. I like the online world too. And I like being creative online. But I don’t want to get lost in that world. I spend too much time lost in the real world sometimes. I don’t think I can handle being lost in both.
I’m gonna go walk my dog and touch some grass.
Till next time
-Kevin
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