RE: Who Are Your Fav Content Creators on Hive?

Sorry, I couldn't get past "cries and whails" lollll.

I think ai has a place. Sometimes (not always), I'll ask ai to check for errors or minor editing (like an editor). At times that works fine. Other times, ai mutilates my writing, and it's not mine anymore. I've actually had aggressive words with ai about that. It apologizes and does it again. Liar!

Once I track that a post is ai written (beyond edits), I not only lose interest but become upset. I feel tricked.

Um... that future post is a very odd comparison. I look forward to seeing how that works.

Hey! Not all posts are for everyone. Some are just because you/we want/need to.

I went to Medium for a minute. Or, I should say that I TRIED to Medium. I didn't love that the posts were expected to be FOR others. Not journal like. Not insightful. Not meaningful in a philosophical way. Medium wants a direct end goal of what the reader gets from it. That's okay at times, but I find it difficult to write with that kind of purpose. Sometimes, I think in writing.

What I'm saying is, you write your posts that are just for you! Some people (not Medium people, apparently) love that.

Sorry, I couldn't get past "cries and whails" lollll.

I used to use this sentence when people would complain (when I worked in a call centre) about my colleagues who had accented voices. :D A biting critique of the human condition, I think!

AI having a place

Like all tools, it is HOW you use it. Just like there's an uncanny valley in computer graphics and robotics, I feel the same sense of uncanniness when reading AI generated text. I feel like I'm pretty good at detecting it. (And my Turing Test goes BEEEP BEEP BEEP, like Deckard from Blade Runner, or the version I much more prefer, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep)

It is all about how you prompt the machine, and how you understand the response. I like to get a LLM to act as an "interviewer", to really interrogate and clarify my own intent for a piece of writing. Sometimes it gives me better ideas, or sometimes, it gives me horrible ones. It's up to the person's agency and their own brain to determine what is what.

The posts written for yourself are often the best ones, and when you find someone else that appreciates them, it is like falling into a sort of intellectual nirvana. HIVE gives me that feeling, and I thoroughly enjoy engaging in content that allows me to give back that feeling of intellectual nirvana to other authors.

At least, I try!