Yes, I drank the Koolaid. It was sweet and refreshing. I wanted more! I guzzled it down until my stomach started to ache and my mouth got numb. Enough! My palate needed cleansing. I spit it out.
♦️”What Koolaid?,“ you ask. AI writing.
I admit, I wrote one blog post with it last year. It was new and I wanted to try it. AI writing can give you seeming perfection with just a simple prompt. It’s tempting to save time and let it write for you. You can have an electronic “mini me” who works for free!
At first it seemed fun. I considered how much easier AI was going to make my life as a Solopreneur. The overabundance of project ideas floating in my head, just waiting to be born, could come to life with just a few keyboard strokes. Voila - it’s magic! 🙌🏻 But suddenly I began to notice similarities in what I read across many platforms and from varied sources. As I became more familiar with AI writing styles, I felt embarrassed by my AI generated blog post and deleted it. I don’t want to put out the same style as everyone else or even generate a virtual facsimile of me.
In the past 6 months it feels like almost every spiritual blog or newsletter I subscribe to has suddenly switched to AI writing. I’m so disappointed. I stopped reading them. I keep hoping they’ll see the error of their ways and meet me back at the beautifully imperfect land of human ingenuity.
Once you see it, you can’t unsee it. 👁 It’s the excessive use of semicolons, the Oxford comma and the “em dash” aka —. It’s the same captivating but repetitive phrasing and sentence structures. The topic doesn’t matter. It all starts to feel the same.
You’re not just ___, You’re ____. It’s not this, it’s that. This isn’t a time for ____. It’s time for _______.
Whether you _____ or ______, _____.
It gets really tiresome. 🔄 It’s formulaic, like a pop song that was catchy at first and has been copied so many times that you crave originality. If I wanted an AI perspective on spirituality topics, I’d go straight to ChatGpt. Even when it’s a real person’s perspectives rewritten by AI, it leaves a yucky aftertaste to me. It’s overly slick and stylized, lacking authenticity. I miss reading people’s distinctive thoughts, written in their own voice.
Give me something different! Give me human imperfection. Give me soul. Give me your ideas and perceptions born from messy lived experiences.
Sure, at this point it still fools the majority of people. They’re impressed by the cleverness and the flashy buzzwords. At some point (I’m there already) many people will experience AI Fatigue. 🆘 Those who are awake and sensitive will turn away from the empty AI regurgitation and seek out soulful expression that has true essence embedded in it.
Just to be clear: I’m not anti-AI. It’s a lifesaver for helping me organize and structure information, including my thoughts. I’ll continue to use it for editing and for mundane writing, like product descriptions or podcast summaries. When it comes to writing, just remember to let AI work FOR you, not INSTEAD OF you.
🌟 I vow that my blog posts and books will continue to be written by me, perhaps at times a bit clunky, rambling or with an occasional outworn idiom. At least I can assure you that my perspective is derived from real human life experience and that my soul’s frequency is woven throughout my words.
I want to know the real you through your words. I believe in the value of authentic human expression. AI can enhance our capabilities, but it shouldn't replace the one-of-a-kind perspective that only you can offer. Your voice matters. Keep writing as your Self and I’ll keep reading It. 💟