im thinking about the times where ive used AI to brush up on an email message - so that I could sound more "put together" or "concise" or "organized" and honestly there's always a loss to my expression, my excitement, my true steam of consciousness rambly neurospicy voice whenever i do that. i look back at the ways where I see AI as the more polished mature grammatically correct version of me and how it's so seductive to count on and then I can't help feeling a little lazier and incompetent and "let's just use AI" each and every time I rely on it. There's definitely diminishing returns over time.
I think of the same thing around smoking spliffs. I loveeeee smoking spliffs because i feel a bit more animated, expressive, courageous, curious, tap into feelings in a very messy uncalibrated way lol and now i reserve it for only one time a year (usually my birthday) versus smoking it every day because i just dont want to rely on substances to feel a certain kind of way..
i'm a complex human being! anyway just my "good enough" rambling reflection for now.
Yes for the good enough reflection -- which actually has a lot of juicy nuggets in it, forest! I love this sense of diminishing returns with each use of AI, and the likening of it to spliffs -- which bring some ease and also have a cost. I also appreciate you naming the loss of your own voice -- which feels so true and scary to me. What are we gaining and what are we losing? Let's keep exploring this together. Love you too!
Dearest Shilpa, thank you for so clearly expressing what I have struggled to find words for. I've talked about the environmental impacts, and the theft of human creative expression. The loss of depth in creative works, and also loss of the ways WE are shaped and deepened by the process of creative wrestling and study... But the SEDUCTION of it. Yes! That part! And the parallels to nuclear energy. I have such a deep uneasiness about it all. Grateful for your clear voice, and sending much imperfect human love your way.
I don't think the importance of this reflection can be overestimated. I applaud your resolution to continue living your life as a fully human being. Keep asking questions of us friends.
Thank you Richard! Yes, more questions please. Maybe that's one of the dimensions that is so scary. The passive acceptance of something so fraught with serious and devastating impacts. This is the year to open more inquiry please! :)
im thinking about the times where ive used AI to brush up on an email message - so that I could sound more "put together" or "concise" or "organized" and honestly there's always a loss to my expression, my excitement, my true steam of consciousness rambly neurospicy voice whenever i do that. i look back at the ways where I see AI as the more polished mature grammatically correct version of me and how it's so seductive to count on and then I can't help feeling a little lazier and incompetent and "let's just use AI" each and every time I rely on it. There's definitely diminishing returns over time.
I think of the same thing around smoking spliffs. I loveeeee smoking spliffs because i feel a bit more animated, expressive, courageous, curious, tap into feelings in a very messy uncalibrated way lol and now i reserve it for only one time a year (usually my birthday) versus smoking it every day because i just dont want to rely on substances to feel a certain kind of way..
i'm a complex human being! anyway just my "good enough" rambling reflection for now.
love you Shilpa, i needed to read this!
Yes for the good enough reflection -- which actually has a lot of juicy nuggets in it, forest! I love this sense of diminishing returns with each use of AI, and the likening of it to spliffs -- which bring some ease and also have a cost. I also appreciate you naming the loss of your own voice -- which feels so true and scary to me. What are we gaining and what are we losing? Let's keep exploring this together. Love you too!
Dearest Shilpa, thank you for so clearly expressing what I have struggled to find words for. I've talked about the environmental impacts, and the theft of human creative expression. The loss of depth in creative works, and also loss of the ways WE are shaped and deepened by the process of creative wrestling and study... But the SEDUCTION of it. Yes! That part! And the parallels to nuclear energy. I have such a deep uneasiness about it all. Grateful for your clear voice, and sending much imperfect human love your way.
Thank you dear! There are so many dimensions to explore and be uneasy about. Thank you for your beautiful humanity and leading the way with that! <3
You know just the right way to approach things to provoke extra thought. Well done, love!
Thank you! And thank you for one of the inspirational conversations that prompted this post! <3
I don't think the importance of this reflection can be overestimated. I applaud your resolution to continue living your life as a fully human being. Keep asking questions of us friends.
Big smiles,
Richard
Thank you Richard! Yes, more questions please. Maybe that's one of the dimensions that is so scary. The passive acceptance of something so fraught with serious and devastating impacts. This is the year to open more inquiry please! :)
Love this, Shilpa. Thanks for emphasizing the value of being human—getting to notice, wonder, acknowledge, create, and collaborate.
Thank you Leaf! And thank you for being such a human human!!! <3
THANK YOU for writing this! 😌💛
You are welcome Avleen! Thank YOU for reading!!!
Nice 🙂 one! Thanks 👍 for sharingAx!
I agree things are good enough.
I do not agree about not using AI. The cat is out of the bag now... It won't go back, now we can only keep abreast.
For me even AI is good enough. There is a lot that one can do with it, and so can others. Both good & bad 😔.