I was on vacation for the last four days, and typically when I’m away for an extended period I re-run previous dots. But this year, I tried an experiment and instead published the last four dots (#4286, #4287, #4288, #4289) generated by Chat GPT/Open AI. The photos (from Adobe) were also AI-generated. I wonder if you noticed.
I have dabbled my feet in the AI pond — I took a few LinkedIn courses, led discussions in my communication and business classes, and played around with the technology. It is staggeringly fast and on the whole, quite amazing. I thought I needed to see how it would handle writing a dot.
AI did in seconds what takes me a half hour or more. It literally took me longer to come up with a title than it did for the software to write the entire content. I prompted it to “try again” and instantly an entirely different blog post appeared. I could have spent hours being fascinated by all the variations I could conjure.
Fortunately (?), I did not like the dots that it wrote. I felt they were generic and trite and it gave me renewed motivation to continue plodding away on my own to write them manually. (Human-ly?) Had AI given me content that was indistinguishable from previous dots, I may have never written on my own again.
But, since that was not the case, I’ll continue to create dots — 100% self-made — including one tomorrow with more about my AI reflections…
P. S. Could you tell it was AI? I would love to hear your observations in the comments.
I thought the tone of voice sounded different – stiff and less formal.
Interesting experiment, beth! I didn’t read these over the weekend, so as I caught up I definitely noticed a different — disconnected, almost abrupt — voice, like you only had time to share quick talking points. Glad to hear you’ll be writing your own posts. I will always be more likely to connect with a human!
Chris