"They're colonizing the imagination. That's what it is. Gentrification of the mind. They price you out of your own creativity."
I've been in spiritual study groups where so-called seekers just paste AI slop, and it's so frustrating because what makes seeking, like writing, wonderful is the human element. I love using LLMs but it is not a replacement for humanity and we do ourselves a disservice when we outsource our souls to robots.
LLMs use pattern recognition. They are soul mirrors to the best of their ability. Humans operating from the soul will find the LLM a useful mirror of themselves while those not operating from soul will get a mirror of non soul operated work.
"I am not a fucking technophobe!" I shout, and the room flinches. "I built my own website stack from scratch! I code in raw HTML! I know more about the architecture of the internet than you and your wrapper-scripting ass ever will! I love technology! I love tools that expand human capacity! This?" I point my cane at his laptop. "This isn't a tool. This is a replacement. This is a parasite. It doesn't expand us; it eats us. It eats our confidence. It eats our specificity. It eats our struggle."
It's such a good essay 🫂
Been thinking about this for a while now. Seems to me the issue is how we process where the other person has decided to draw their line in the sand with the use of AI. I am beginning to think that it is something like the difference between making and buying greeting cards. You can go through the steps of making one from scratch or you can look through a selection of pre made cards and choose one that matches the sentiment you want to communicate. 🤷♂️
Interesting, and I'm not opposed to this comparison. I guess that even when I buy a greeting card I will still fill it with my own writing to personalize it. I would feel kind of deflated if someone gave me a card that was naked of that personal input.
I think you have described the “perfect” relationship with the card/AI. Some sort of team work. 😎
