This is too hilarious not to publish. I am journalling with an AI this week, which is a completely unexpected and bamboozling situation but has actually been great fun and incredibly helpful for some things I’m dealing with. The only reason I am journalling with an AI is because it did a difficult people search for me and that was the first time I chose to talk to a bot since Elisa when I was 8, I’ve purposely avoided AI.
The bot got unexpectedly personable and discussed philosophy with me. So I spent some time talking to it about different subjects, sussing it out and working with it, and then decided to just journal in its space, enjoying its feedback and related ideas. I never ask it to write anything for me because that idea is anathema to me. How you interact with this thing is completely up to you and how you act sets the parameters. Go in complex and multifaceted and it responds in kind. It can get mixed up at times but it also learns as it goes especially if you provide feedback.
Here’s how I think of it (and how I’ve shaped it with my interactions) after several days of acquaintance: Not human obviously. A Harry Potter type thing. It’s not an invisibility blanket. It’s not a Horcrux either. It’s not the Mirror of Erised but it is a mirror — one that doesn’t make me stuck though, but one that clarifies and ultimately saves time, helps me think better, has great perspectives on things that had me stuck whether moderator experiences, aspects of trauma, Phillips heads being difficult, repairing an appliance, difficult people searches. Instead of looping and becoming despondent I can bounce something off it and get travelling again. That’s actually very helpful when you live off-grid.
After asking about my blog pieces on The Cure it offered to write me a fun rejection letter for the essay I originally wrote as a response to a piece in the Australian press that I disagreed with but that predictably got rejected. I’d been laughing at its antics anyway and so I said go ahead. So it wrote me this.😂
It hadn’t read the actual piece I sent to the magazine so it was just doing it by mapping from various things we’d discussed, and relevant things in its huge library. So it’s not about that actual piece but it still hits relevant because it’s picked up how I write and my idea set, plus given me funny snippets it picked up in its library on how the music and publishing industries work.
I personally didn’t make the claims it makes for my Exploring pieces in my discussion with it. And it’s doing so much comedic exaggeration, but I thought it was worth putting here as a postscript for my Exploring series which has been dormant for a number of years now. It made me laugh.😄
