I write every day. Usually in the morning. And what I've noticed is that I spend less and less time staring at the blank screen and more time thinking about what happened recently and where that thought takes me. I enjoyed this article enough to read the whole thing and comment.
You are 100% right. Your profile was the first I subscribed to, and your posts literally read my mind. For a while, I even suspected they were written by AI because of how clearly they articulated thoughts I've held for a long time. It felt impossible that a living person could capture that essence so precisely.
As a creator, I’ve started using AI for everything. Being a native Russian speaker and a poet, I feel so much but can often express so little in English. More painfully, living with bipolar disorder has affected my cognitive abilities over the years. AI has become my vital "structurer" — I dictate my chaotic, raw thoughts, and it gives them the form I can no longer maintain on my own. It’s an alliance that allows me to speak when I otherwise couldn't.
However, I’ve reached a difficult crossroads. When AI builds the structure, the result often feels "wooden," and my authorship feels lost. This is why I have so many unfinished projects and drafts that I’m afraid to publish; I fear they’ve become lifeless and automated. I am terrified that if we surrender our decision-making to the algorithm, we lose our subjectivity and our right to be named as authors.
I believe the challenge of our era is finding the "golden mean." We must seek a balance where we remain present and use AI as a tool for good, not as a replacement for our souls. As we approach the era of AGI, preserving our authentic authorial voice — even if it’s messy or lacks perfect grammar — becomes a vital act of survival.
I am learning to be an author in alliance with AI without losing myself in it. In a world where purely human-created content is becoming a rare treasure, transparency about how we use these tools is the only way to maintain true identification. Thank you for broadcasting the thoughts I was almost afraid to face.
P.S. I dictated this via microphone and used AI to translate and structure it. If I could just speak to you directly, it would be simpler, but I am grateful for this invention that allows me to witness and participate in this evolution.
First of all, why am I not getting the server farm comments - I feel discriminated against! 😅 Secondly, I apologize to anyone to whom I left a generic comment on their post (sometimes I’m just struggling for the right words so saying “that’s incredible!” is the best I can come up with.) Lastly, I totally agree re AI … The more I use it, the more I realize it’s not taking over any of our day jobs where those jobs require heart, creativity, and human connection.
You've now got me wondering about someone who has recently shown up in my post comments ... they always regurgitate back (with alarming accuracy and detail) whatever I said in my essay. Methinks they may be using AI to seem engaged ... 🤔
if you chat with ai about things you are actually quite knowledgeable in, you see how poor it is at most cognitive tasks. because it can't think. it doesn't understand. it's like a dumb intern that you don't trust to do anything important. the use cases for LLM is alot more narrow than most people suspect.
Uh.. Yeah.. I guess I can never really understand why AI is such a huge thing for a lot of people. I mean, I kinda used it once to look for an answer to something. As I wrote it down, the answer tab got closed, so I asked it for a second time. Now the got a different answer. I mean, it's not like I'm looking for opinions, I was looking for facts. I could ask the same thing to a human over and over again and the only thing that's changed would be their annoyance towards me.
So, yeah. When the one thing it was supposed to be good at doesn't work, I wonder what the hype was all about.
Subslop is a neat word because it resembles sub-par. AIslop, Microslop, and whatever-slop each have their uniqueness, but Subslop feels like it is even bellow all those.
The only place I use AI in writing is with a grammar checker because they all come like this these days. But I'd never use it to generate ideas, nor "help" me write. I've unsubscribed from the newsletters of various "experts" over the last few years because they began pushing AI in the art. But AI has its benefits. It helped me pick up a pen and note pad again, to jot down parts of poems wherever I might be. I haven't done that in over a decade. I resorted to keeping things in my head and punching them down on the keyboard later. AI helped me realize that I was right all along - since the launch of Fakebook... I, I mean Facebook in 20...whenever the heck it was - about social media, once resorting to social media a few months ago to "connect." Which, I kind-of don't. AI helped solidify the absolute necessity to be creative because this is what moves civilization forward, and human beings, at large, are voluntarily giving it up for profit, fickle fans, likes, and soulless "art." If we lose this part of ourselves...that's it... there's nothing left to hand over to the vampires. AI made me appreciate my lapses, my forgetfulness, my procrastination, my staring at walls, my errors, my deleting the same thing 50 times, my struggle, my failures... my watching falling leaves, the movement of clouds, or a dude on a bicycle. Because I'm human dammit...and that's the way I like it!
THANK YOU! I feel this. AI can be a useful tool for organizing my thoughts or asking questions to challenge me—but I have to be deliberate in my approach. It does a decent job of providing a developmental overview of written material, although I don’t always agree with its findings. It’s a terrible, passionless writer. While I’m comfortable using it as a tool, I cannot imagine leaving my creativity in its hands. How would I breathe?
It was great to meet up again. There is nothing that can replace an in person conversation. The bet that many companies made...like Meta with their meta-verse has not panned out...for, in my opinion, obvious reasons..
I write every day. Usually in the morning. And what I've noticed is that I spend less and less time staring at the blank screen and more time thinking about what happened recently and where that thought takes me. I enjoyed this article enough to read the whole thing and comment.
That's the beauty of a habit turning into an identity. I'm happy to hear that and I appreciate your comment.
Dear Philip, hello.
You are 100% right. Your profile was the first I subscribed to, and your posts literally read my mind. For a while, I even suspected they were written by AI because of how clearly they articulated thoughts I've held for a long time. It felt impossible that a living person could capture that essence so precisely.
As a creator, I’ve started using AI for everything. Being a native Russian speaker and a poet, I feel so much but can often express so little in English. More painfully, living with bipolar disorder has affected my cognitive abilities over the years. AI has become my vital "structurer" — I dictate my chaotic, raw thoughts, and it gives them the form I can no longer maintain on my own. It’s an alliance that allows me to speak when I otherwise couldn't.
However, I’ve reached a difficult crossroads. When AI builds the structure, the result often feels "wooden," and my authorship feels lost. This is why I have so many unfinished projects and drafts that I’m afraid to publish; I fear they’ve become lifeless and automated. I am terrified that if we surrender our decision-making to the algorithm, we lose our subjectivity and our right to be named as authors.
I believe the challenge of our era is finding the "golden mean." We must seek a balance where we remain present and use AI as a tool for good, not as a replacement for our souls. As we approach the era of AGI, preserving our authentic authorial voice — even if it’s messy or lacks perfect grammar — becomes a vital act of survival.
I am learning to be an author in alliance with AI without losing myself in it. In a world where purely human-created content is becoming a rare treasure, transparency about how we use these tools is the only way to maintain true identification. Thank you for broadcasting the thoughts I was almost afraid to face.
P.S. I dictated this via microphone and used AI to translate and structure it. If I could just speak to you directly, it would be simpler, but I am grateful for this invention that allows me to witness and participate in this evolution.
Thanks for taking the time to write such a thoughtful comment.
I absolutely right with the idea of the "golden mean." AI is a great tool... if it stays in the role of a tool.
I just remembered that when I had my own marketing agency, one of my favorite quotes was: You can't fake value!
Who knew, that 15 years later, the opposite has become true.
You might be able to fake value but you can't fake what people value.
BAM! That's even better! Love it!
I really like what you wrote about art. It is about connection, feeling understood and sharing a personal experience. It’s therefore about love.
First of all, why am I not getting the server farm comments - I feel discriminated against! 😅 Secondly, I apologize to anyone to whom I left a generic comment on their post (sometimes I’m just struggling for the right words so saying “that’s incredible!” is the best I can come up with.) Lastly, I totally agree re AI … The more I use it, the more I realize it’s not taking over any of our day jobs where those jobs require heart, creativity, and human connection.
I think a lot of us are the process of coming to that realization.
You've now got me wondering about someone who has recently shown up in my post comments ... they always regurgitate back (with alarming accuracy and detail) whatever I said in my essay. Methinks they may be using AI to seem engaged ... 🤔
I love that you discovered you go to the same coffee shop! How awesome is that?!
I've met some amazing real people here. Don't need AI bots, but definitely like the real connections as well.
Yes this was so cool.
Wow! This really hit!
if you chat with ai about things you are actually quite knowledgeable in, you see how poor it is at most cognitive tasks. because it can't think. it doesn't understand. it's like a dumb intern that you don't trust to do anything important. the use cases for LLM is alot more narrow than most people suspect.
Uh.. Yeah.. I guess I can never really understand why AI is such a huge thing for a lot of people. I mean, I kinda used it once to look for an answer to something. As I wrote it down, the answer tab got closed, so I asked it for a second time. Now the got a different answer. I mean, it's not like I'm looking for opinions, I was looking for facts. I could ask the same thing to a human over and over again and the only thing that's changed would be their annoyance towards me.
So, yeah. When the one thing it was supposed to be good at doesn't work, I wonder what the hype was all about.
Subslop is a neat word because it resembles sub-par. AIslop, Microslop, and whatever-slop each have their uniqueness, but Subslop feels like it is even bellow all those.
The connection to sub-par is excellent.
The only place I use AI in writing is with a grammar checker because they all come like this these days. But I'd never use it to generate ideas, nor "help" me write. I've unsubscribed from the newsletters of various "experts" over the last few years because they began pushing AI in the art. But AI has its benefits. It helped me pick up a pen and note pad again, to jot down parts of poems wherever I might be. I haven't done that in over a decade. I resorted to keeping things in my head and punching them down on the keyboard later. AI helped me realize that I was right all along - since the launch of Fakebook... I, I mean Facebook in 20...whenever the heck it was - about social media, once resorting to social media a few months ago to "connect." Which, I kind-of don't. AI helped solidify the absolute necessity to be creative because this is what moves civilization forward, and human beings, at large, are voluntarily giving it up for profit, fickle fans, likes, and soulless "art." If we lose this part of ourselves...that's it... there's nothing left to hand over to the vampires. AI made me appreciate my lapses, my forgetfulness, my procrastination, my staring at walls, my errors, my deleting the same thing 50 times, my struggle, my failures... my watching falling leaves, the movement of clouds, or a dude on a bicycle. Because I'm human dammit...and that's the way I like it!
Action refines strategy faster than analysis ever will.
THANK YOU! I feel this. AI can be a useful tool for organizing my thoughts or asking questions to challenge me—but I have to be deliberate in my approach. It does a decent job of providing a developmental overview of written material, although I don’t always agree with its findings. It’s a terrible, passionless writer. While I’m comfortable using it as a tool, I cannot imagine leaving my creativity in its hands. How would I breathe?
While I’m comfortable using it as a tool, I cannot imagine leaving my creativity in its hands. How would I breathe?
Same for me. Creativity is a way of being.
It was great to meet up again. There is nothing that can replace an in person conversation. The bet that many companies made...like Meta with their meta-verse has not panned out...for, in my opinion, obvious reasons..
Looking forward to our next meetup.
Wow. This really hit!
Sorry. Couldn’t resist. 🤘
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