If I've known someone for awhile, and they're now using AI, I can tell instantly, without any magic tools. It takes their personality right out of it. We all leave fingerprints behind when we convert our thoughts into physical form. Wipe those off and you can't distinguish one person from the next.
Language and communication, that's one. It's one set of rules, basically. One entity, in a sense. Yet we all sound different. Each one of us, unique.
Over the years I've seen countless complaints, "I wrote 2000 words and these people aren't upvoting me. Spent all that time researching a topic and these people aren't upvoting me. The writing is perfect and so much better than member X so why aren't they upvoting me."
It's only natural to become curious so you go look at their work. 9 times out of 10 there's no personality, at all. It's just words. They've completely removed themselves from their work, then want others to upvote them, but removed majority of the ways another human can connect with them. They've become the book rather than the author. And now AI is helping people make that common mistake.
Where most people fail, is in their actual experience. :D
That's so funny. You can ask it, and it knows "The Answer," but it cannot deliver.
And if I see one more "blog post" that looks almost exactly like that response...
I might lose my shit.
With that thing able to generate a response like that, we no longer "need" it written down 10000 more times.
What I'm discovering is now people can unshackle themselves from the generic nonsense getting them nowhere in life (because they're simply borrowing life from another), since it's all there at your fingertips when you need it (always was), this actually has the potential to open the door for actual people to come back inside. The content one cannot connect with has been chasing people away. But will society see this as an opportunity? Or is being yourself simply too much hard work...
As said, it is the experience that is lacking. Most people don't seem to have much in order to say something informed, relevant, useful or whatever, let alone the willingness to learn how to present it well. When we spend so much time consuming junk, what unique value can we bring to others?
Recycled garbage. Just spent fifteen years on facebook watching people I've known forever become mouthpieces for the media they consume. Like going to the animal sanctuary and listening to the parrots, as I watched them grow their feathers. Try to pull them out of it and they think you're working for the "other team"...
I'll still give people credit. The ones who do get it. I'll look at them now, as I always have, and say over the years they've provided a unique experience. That's what has kept me around here all these years. That's what I was craving. Plenty of them out there, past and present. From all over the world. Not hard to stumble into a new one either. I find actual people to be, fascinating.
Presentation takes practice. Doesn't have to be perfect. And if it is, I probably won't like it. Because then the journey is over. Mission complete. Nothing left. Far more interesting watching people stumble around trying to figure out life. That's the one thing we all have in common, no matter how it's dressed.
100%, if I wanted to know about a movie I'd much rather go look at a content creator reviewing it I know or have enjoyed listening to in the past than someone random.
That's one good example. A generic outline explaining what the movie is about and someone writing about their experience with that movie are vastly different. Take the human personal experience out and that makes it incredibly difficult for someone random to become someone you know. Starts somewhere. Follow the rope, it ends at a human.
And what made something like Siskel & Ebert a success in its time was the fact the viewer was given two personalities to connect with instead of just one and they talked about what they thought, not what they saw.
Those making movie trailers. Tell me how successful they'd be if all they did was report on what the movie was about. The dude with the voice is there for a reason, giving it personality.
Take science. Report on findings or theories in a Youtube video. 500 views. Add a personality and combine it with the same information. One million views.
Totally agree with this as your character/personality is in how you write and express yourself. Those users I follow (English a 2nd language) who have spelling mistakes is part of the experience of reading their posts and taking that away will lessen the experience if that makes sense.
Makes a lot of sense.
Damn this guy .... always on point!