I'm with you! And this is a helpful reminder for me to post something at Rain Lilies to the effect that I don't use AI for anything I write. At the other blog (that Rain Lilies will replace) I had noted "Artificial Intelligence has no place in this blog or any of my other writings; it's a matter of integrity. By that I mean the integrity of our relationship, between writer and reader - what I offer you is real, and really comes from me, for better or worse."
And I was just reading a couple of the studies about map use vs. GPS and the effects on spatial memory and reasoning over the last couple of days. I had wondered if I was just being a Luddite, thinking that abandoning maps etc. was hurting people. We have got to put our tech use in some proper perspective and place more value on "IRL."
Yes, I will be adding an AI statement to my About section here and on my blog at some point soon. I really appreciate the "What I offer you is real" part because that's 100% me, too. What comes out onto the digital page is whatever is floating around in my brain to begin with, good or bad.
the iNaturalist section is a very good description of the gap people skip. the suggestion only becomes useful because someone comes back, checks the county, argues over the subspecies, sometimes corrects it weeks later. i use ai in my fiction and spend most of the work in that second half, correcting the machine till the first answer is barely visible. whether the electricity and water bill makes that worth doing, i dont have a clean answer.
Thanks for your perspective on using AI in your writing.
And yes, people do not really understand how much human involvement is behind iNaturalist to even make it function like it does now. I wish we could get more insect people to use it because wow, there are major gaps there.
I'm on the same page and share those same disgruntled thoughts. I also used chatGPT a few times a couple of years ago. I help do social media for a dog rescue and was told it made your captions better. I didn't like it (it honestly creeped me out how "good" it was) and I haven't used it since. Now I refuse to. And now I can spot people using AI to write captions EVERYWHERE. And I don't understand it because it makes everyone sound the same and too "perfect". I'm sure there are some areas where AI is beneficial and genuinely helping lives but not this generative AI slop. I find myself getting so frustrated every time I see an AI photo, video, a god awful FLYER (they're everywhere), text, etc. I've reported so many AI social media accounts like pretend to be professionals and sell products and has hundreds of thousands of followers—it's insane. And AI is helping us "save time" but what are we doing with this so-called extra time people are getting? Probably not critical thinking. Now I'm rambling my disgruntled thoughts. And like Darby said in a comment earlier it is a full time job avoiding it. We made it this far in life without it, we really don't need it!!!
I'm sure you've noticed my lack of essays on this platform since early spring--it's over these very questions. I don't and won't use AI for any reason - I've never used Siri - and I'd rather pull back from social media than feed this churn towards degrading everyone's mental health for the sake of profit. If I have the energy later this year, I'll pivot my writing back to my blog. I'm unhappy with Substack enabling people like the Tates to wrack up big bucks and ... you are so right, too many writers here lazily reach for AI generated images. Now, this lean into "let your readers run your words through AI" upsets me enough to call it quits here.
Yes, I have noticed. I've checked a few times to see if I've missed your posts and realized you hadn't written. I am unhappy with Substack in some ways as well but have yet to find the impetus to get off considering so little traffic seems to filter to websites any longer. And the lack of good RSS feed readers makes it difficult for people to subscribe, too. As I said, all intentional to separate off the internet into little fiefdoms.
It is a full time job (unpaid) avoiding it.
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I'm with you! And this is a helpful reminder for me to post something at Rain Lilies to the effect that I don't use AI for anything I write. At the other blog (that Rain Lilies will replace) I had noted "Artificial Intelligence has no place in this blog or any of my other writings; it's a matter of integrity. By that I mean the integrity of our relationship, between writer and reader - what I offer you is real, and really comes from me, for better or worse."
And I was just reading a couple of the studies about map use vs. GPS and the effects on spatial memory and reasoning over the last couple of days. I had wondered if I was just being a Luddite, thinking that abandoning maps etc. was hurting people. We have got to put our tech use in some proper perspective and place more value on "IRL."
Yes, I will be adding an AI statement to my About section here and on my blog at some point soon. I really appreciate the "What I offer you is real" part because that's 100% me, too. What comes out onto the digital page is whatever is floating around in my brain to begin with, good or bad.
the iNaturalist section is a very good description of the gap people skip. the suggestion only becomes useful because someone comes back, checks the county, argues over the subspecies, sometimes corrects it weeks later. i use ai in my fiction and spend most of the work in that second half, correcting the machine till the first answer is barely visible. whether the electricity and water bill makes that worth doing, i dont have a clean answer.
Thanks for your perspective on using AI in your writing.
And yes, people do not really understand how much human involvement is behind iNaturalist to even make it function like it does now. I wish we could get more insect people to use it because wow, there are major gaps there.
I'm on the same page and share those same disgruntled thoughts. I also used chatGPT a few times a couple of years ago. I help do social media for a dog rescue and was told it made your captions better. I didn't like it (it honestly creeped me out how "good" it was) and I haven't used it since. Now I refuse to. And now I can spot people using AI to write captions EVERYWHERE. And I don't understand it because it makes everyone sound the same and too "perfect". I'm sure there are some areas where AI is beneficial and genuinely helping lives but not this generative AI slop. I find myself getting so frustrated every time I see an AI photo, video, a god awful FLYER (they're everywhere), text, etc. I've reported so many AI social media accounts like pretend to be professionals and sell products and has hundreds of thousands of followers—it's insane. And AI is helping us "save time" but what are we doing with this so-called extra time people are getting? Probably not critical thinking. Now I'm rambling my disgruntled thoughts. And like Darby said in a comment earlier it is a full time job avoiding it. We made it this far in life without it, we really don't need it!!!
The AI flyers drive me insane! At this point I will take hand written signs and be just fine with them!
I'm sure you've noticed my lack of essays on this platform since early spring--it's over these very questions. I don't and won't use AI for any reason - I've never used Siri - and I'd rather pull back from social media than feed this churn towards degrading everyone's mental health for the sake of profit. If I have the energy later this year, I'll pivot my writing back to my blog. I'm unhappy with Substack enabling people like the Tates to wrack up big bucks and ... you are so right, too many writers here lazily reach for AI generated images. Now, this lean into "let your readers run your words through AI" upsets me enough to call it quits here.
Oh, and you did a marvelous job of expounding on the very things I've been pondering but haven't wanted to put the energy into writing. Thank you!
Yes, I have noticed. I've checked a few times to see if I've missed your posts and realized you hadn't written. I am unhappy with Substack in some ways as well but have yet to find the impetus to get off considering so little traffic seems to filter to websites any longer. And the lack of good RSS feed readers makes it difficult for people to subscribe, too. As I said, all intentional to separate off the internet into little fiefdoms.
I will never understand how some of my nature loving friends are so enthusiastic about AI and so clueless how it impacts their writer/artist friends.