Free flowing of thoughts to capture the state of things.

I want to write tonight.

I want to write and then hit publish.

Writing leaves an imprint. Whether you write on a piece of paper, which almost no one does these days… or you write into a computer — you leave your thoughts imprinted as you continue flowing.

Recently, I had a foray into using AI for the purposes of capturing thoughts.

I thought it would speed up my writing.

The theory was… I just needed to dump my thoughts into the AI and it’ll transcribe for me and give me a piece of written text.

At first, there was novelty. It was exciting. I never had this feeling before. It almost felt liberating.

But, the metaphor I would use is… it’s like moving forward with no eyes.

You see, even in life… you need to know where you came from, in order to move forward. Generally speaking.

It’s the case when you’re driving. Glancing at the back mirror is a norm.

And when you plan your business, you look at your track record. Your past sales, marketing campaigns etc… in order to decide where to go from here.

So back to this predicament I have about writing using AI.

One awesome thing it unlocks is my ability to string thoughts into words. Because if they stay as thoughts… unarticulated… then they are of little to no use. Or worse, they might somehow infuse or mess around (i don’t even know the word)… with your emotions.

But without the ability to see what has been said… you are moving forward blindly.

You might argue: If you have a conversation, you’d do the same.

Not quite.

A conversation with another person still leaves an imprint of your thoughts. More interestingly, the imprint is on the person listening to you. That kinda explains why you just know it when someone is not listening or have their minds elsewhere. Because your words are not landing. And… you feel like you’re talking to yourself.

So that’s the whole thing with going about this with AI. It literally is you talking to yourself. Yes, the AI talks back… but they are just your own thoughts being said back to you.

Whereas if you write, or if you talk to someone else… you communicate. Writing gives that buffer between you and the other person. Writing has another step where you get to express yourself, then look at that expression, before it goes off into someone else’s eyes (or ears).

But in this very particular case… I write once, and will hit publish.
No checking, no proofreading… it’s almost a protest… no it IS a protest to me being almost lost in the world of AI.

Embrace humanity, Embrace our faults. our grammatical and spelling errors… the futility of our thoughts not coming to a point… all of it. Our imperfections make us human.

I’m also so sick of reading reports, findings, proposals… all the stuff that gets chatGPT’ed.

Ok protest over. Good night.