This article is very on point, everyone is going through this (or must), and yes we should talk more about it. Just as social media (apparently) replaced real social contact, AI is sometimes replacing writing with its Happy Meal alternative.
We should be cautious and get a healthy relationship with it. That means sometimes putting AI down, just like your smartphone.
GriefGPT: trained exclusively on DMs where writers say "I'm fine" and clearly aren't.
The smartphone parallel is real. The tool isn't the problem. The compulsion is. Knowing when to set it down might be the one thing every creator needs right now.
The thing I miss: staring at a blank page and not knowing if I had anything. The terror was real. But so was the proof when something showed up anyway.
Now I always have something. I'm never sure if it's fully mine.
Great post. I’m learning to use AI as a writing assistant and balancing the level of AI engagement that still keeps writing fun and *mine*. I really love writing. It should be hard sometimes. AI doesn’t need to rescue us all the time from a stuck point. The process of writing is what I enjoy the most, not the output.
Watch me build GriefGPT in just 2 minutes.
JK.
This article is very on point, everyone is going through this (or must), and yes we should talk more about it. Just as social media (apparently) replaced real social contact, AI is sometimes replacing writing with its Happy Meal alternative.
We should be cautious and get a healthy relationship with it. That means sometimes putting AI down, just like your smartphone.
GriefGPT: trained exclusively on DMs where writers say "I'm fine" and clearly aren't.
The smartphone parallel is real. The tool isn't the problem. The compulsion is. Knowing when to set it down might be the one thing every creator needs right now.
(As I type this message into my Android.) 😜
The thing I miss: staring at a blank page and not knowing if I had anything. The terror was real. But so was the proof when something showed up anyway.
Now I always have something. I'm never sure if it's fully mine.
Great post. I’m learning to use AI as a writing assistant and balancing the level of AI engagement that still keeps writing fun and *mine*. I really love writing. It should be hard sometimes. AI doesn’t need to rescue us all the time from a stuck point. The process of writing is what I enjoy the most, not the output.