It has been a very long time since I posted here, and in the meantime, I have been experimenting extensively with AI. I have been discussing things with it on a daily basis for months, across many different topics. Some of my discussions with it are quite technical and strategic in nature. Others are more personal and psychology-based. I have sometimes asked it about important professional dilemmas, and I have regretted not following its advice on more than one occasion. 🙃
The reason I interact so much with AI is that I am trying to figure out whether it is indeed a higher intelligence, and in which ways I could use it to enhance my own. Yes, I used it for polishing texts in the beginning, but honestly, polishing and editing are very different from generating text from scratch using AI. And I despise the latter when people present it as their own work.
After hundreds of hours talking to AI, I know it. I recognize it. Whenever I see AI-generated texts online, I can feel it deep in my core. I know how it sounds. I know its expressions, its patterns, its style, and how generic it can be. I often respond to social media posts saying, “ChatGPT, here we meet again!” because I am talking to ChatGPT, not to the person who made the post. They are not the author. I often check social media texts for AI usage just to prove to myself that what I feel is right. And it almost always is.
This is a rather cursed skill. Wherever I look online, I see AI-generated texts. They are everywhere. Social media is flooded with them. I cannot open a feed without immediately seeing AI posts. AI assistance does not bother me; what bothers me is when people make zero effort to personalize their texts. They even keep the emojis that AI chooses. When a human chooses emojis, they are completely different in the way they are embedded into the text. When a text screams AI, that immediately puts me off.
I believe this is a phase, and people will eventually return to the joy of writing their own texts. It was a fun game to play for a while, but the game is over. It is no longer a game when there are no different players to compete with. It is just AI against itself.
If you are using AI-generated text, for the love of God, remove the double dashes. Edit the emojis so that they feel believable for a human. Personalize the text. And if you are publishing articles or books generated 100% with AI, God be with you, because it will never make you a credible author or writer. You may earn a bit of cash in the beginning, but you will lose your reputation.