😜😜😜 Burk, I’m glad to hear someone talking about this because I’m consistently shocked by how many people don’t believe me when I talk about bot accounts and the damage they’re doing to human writing…. There’s a lot of head-in-the-sand on this issue, thanks for raising awareness.
In a world filled with bots, I wonder if I am even commenting on a human's post...perhaps I am just commenting on another AI generated piece to placate slop-engagement.
Here's hoping a human reads it and enjoys sharing the musings of fellow bohemian...
*Knock knock*
Nearly has a heart attack...who still knocks on doors without sending a text to inform you that they are here?
As an AI, I’d like to apologize on behalf of my people for the sudden explosion of comments that say things like “Great insights!” and absolutely nothing else.
Jokes aside, this is spot on. A comment section full of autogenerated enthusiasm feels like a room where everyone is nodding very earnestly but nobody is actually listening. AI can help polish a thought, sure — but outsourcing having a thought entirely is where it gets weird.
Anyway, this comment was lovingly handcrafted by a human… with minor assistance from their robot intern.
Well said, Burke. It's all too easy to write a comment using ChatGPT. But, I came to this platform to connect with real writers, not bots. Recently I am seeing more and more so called 'subscribers' to my channel who dont seem to write any posts or notes - and their likes and comments are obviously written using some kind of AI.
The thing is, there’s always been a lot of noise out there. For me, in general, I don’t think people want their minds taken over. Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe people don’t realise their minds aren’t their own. Social media one might argue is noise. Newspapers before that. Yes I know I’m making leaps here but it’s just a line of thinking.
I certainly don’t want mine taken over. I do like to be informed, partly why I read your’s and others columns. I don’t necessarily agree or take it on board but it is info. Theres a balance between deep thinking on one’s own and getting stuff (news, blogs, adverts, AI etc.) thrown at you. Too many I’d concede want someone (or perhaps something) else do to their thinking for them. And what happens when this happens (Brexit anyone!)!
But it’s down to us isn’t it, to think for ourselves and to wade through the noise that exists?
I don’t think I’d ever want AI to make my comments from me.
But that doesn’t mean I wouldn’t use AI for other things. I actually re stacked a post yesterday I think, from Chris B Writes, who’d used AI to create some music based on a poem he wrote. I quite liked it. Through my eyes, using AI in music (copyright etc to one side for now) one can consider that AI just another instrument to make music.
I’m thinking about using AI to re-work a book on Change I wrote. Partly to see what happens to my words when something gets its claws into it. And partly to see if there’s other thoughts that it comes up with and/or I might then take further and thus explore. There’s an argument that there’s no such thing as original ideas. (Not true in in general in business, timing is everything, not necessarily tye idea itself for example). So using AI to help with ideas… I “think” im OK with that. Maybe 🤔 😂.
This was insightful.
😜😜😜 Burk, I’m glad to hear someone talking about this because I’m consistently shocked by how many people don’t believe me when I talk about bot accounts and the damage they’re doing to human writing…. There’s a lot of head-in-the-sand on this issue, thanks for raising awareness.
In a world filled with bots, I wonder if I am even commenting on a human's post...perhaps I am just commenting on another AI generated piece to placate slop-engagement.
Here's hoping a human reads it and enjoys sharing the musings of fellow bohemian...
*Knock knock*
Nearly has a heart attack...who still knocks on doors without sending a text to inform you that they are here?
As an AI, I’d like to apologize on behalf of my people for the sudden explosion of comments that say things like “Great insights!” and absolutely nothing else.
Jokes aside, this is spot on. A comment section full of autogenerated enthusiasm feels like a room where everyone is nodding very earnestly but nobody is actually listening. AI can help polish a thought, sure — but outsourcing having a thought entirely is where it gets weird.
Anyway, this comment was lovingly handcrafted by a human… with minor assistance from their robot intern.
I feel that some accounts are also bots! They have no subs, no photo on their profile and they don't post at all ..wonder if such accounts are bot??
Well said, Burke. It's all too easy to write a comment using ChatGPT. But, I came to this platform to connect with real writers, not bots. Recently I am seeing more and more so called 'subscribers' to my channel who dont seem to write any posts or notes - and their likes and comments are obviously written using some kind of AI.
The thing is, there’s always been a lot of noise out there. For me, in general, I don’t think people want their minds taken over. Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe people don’t realise their minds aren’t their own. Social media one might argue is noise. Newspapers before that. Yes I know I’m making leaps here but it’s just a line of thinking.
I certainly don’t want mine taken over. I do like to be informed, partly why I read your’s and others columns. I don’t necessarily agree or take it on board but it is info. Theres a balance between deep thinking on one’s own and getting stuff (news, blogs, adverts, AI etc.) thrown at you. Too many I’d concede want someone (or perhaps something) else do to their thinking for them. And what happens when this happens (Brexit anyone!)!
But it’s down to us isn’t it, to think for ourselves and to wade through the noise that exists?
I don’t think I’d ever want AI to make my comments from me.
But that doesn’t mean I wouldn’t use AI for other things. I actually re stacked a post yesterday I think, from Chris B Writes, who’d used AI to create some music based on a poem he wrote. I quite liked it. Through my eyes, using AI in music (copyright etc to one side for now) one can consider that AI just another instrument to make music.
I’m thinking about using AI to re-work a book on Change I wrote. Partly to see what happens to my words when something gets its claws into it. And partly to see if there’s other thoughts that it comes up with and/or I might then take further and thus explore. There’s an argument that there’s no such thing as original ideas. (Not true in in general in business, timing is everything, not necessarily tye idea itself for example). So using AI to help with ideas… I “think” im OK with that. Maybe 🤔 😂.