The Trouble with A.I.

And the corporations that run our lives.

Conditioning

Indoctrination is nothing new. The fact that books are banned is sad and proves convincingly that TPTB wants to fool the people and obscure anything that doesn’t suit their agenda.

It didn’t used to be this way, but things have changed.

Generally speaking, we never had that much wisdom to begin with, but what’s going on today is a beast of a different mother. A mother who doesn’t care much for her offspring.

If she did, she wouldn’t have abandoned us to the mercy of the soulless corporations that are exploiting us outright. The ones that are making us the product, not the consumer. That has introduced fake news and fake cryptocurrencies. And that confuses AI with natural human talent. Corporations are giants that, through their power, have imposed overtly illogical conditions on authors, creators, and writers.

There’s so much more to us than what we settle for. What’s considered acceptable, or even practical, is a joke we don’t deserve. Nature has given us the means, and they have taken them away—one by one, rule by rule, to the extent that now algorithms are making the decisions.

Everyone has bought into the idea that popularity is better.

The more followers, the better. We live in a crazy world where “likes, “mentions,” and “recommendations” have become of the utmost importance.

Quality is secondary, at best.

Even if we know deep down inside that what we publish is mediocre, our ego ignores that negligible fact as long as our peers like it. A certain degree of excellence is what we should strive for, not impermanent popularity.

The AI Problem

With the advent of AI, the writers’ platforms that are supposed to be guardians of fairness and equality suddenly act like supreme judges with some imaginary power that, at one point in the recent past, was given by us, their faithful members, and associates. If a post went viral, it happened because human beings made it so, not a bot with an algorithm manual.

Even so, they don’t know what to do when people abuse AI, like chatGTP, for example. It’s wild when people publish a personal anecdote entirely created by AI. Quite obvious, too.

Everyone is using it, and they should. But it’s a tool, just like a grammar-correcting app, or, like back in the day, a thesaurus or a dictionary (remember those?)

But they’ll never be able to match the emotion and sentiment emanating from a human being. They can try to imitate it all they want, but they’ll never succeed in replacing us. At least, not entirely.

After all, humans lifted all the writers’ platforms out of obscurity and are still doing it. And we are the ones who support them with our monthly or annual payments.

Do they remember who made them successful in the first place?

It wasn’t a bot from Silicon Valley. It was flesh, blood, and tears from us, regular humans with a story to tell.

Lest they forget.

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