The Arrogance of AI and Their Digital Human Masters

The arrogance of AI and their digital human masters astound. Case in point, my blogs (and everyone else’s on this platform, as well).  When I have finished writing a blog and click on the icon: “Publish,” I am presented with a number of options in a panel that appears on the right side of my screen. One of the options you can select is “improve with AI.”

“Improve with AI.” Not check spelling or grammar. The wonderful people through whom I post my blogs on is suggesting what I am writing is automatically not sufficient. They assume what I am writing needs to be improved on by their machine. This is their “go to” assumption. Interesting. The whole point of writing a blog is to disseminate what you, YOU, are thinking.   

That’s why I write blogs. To say what I AM thinking. The idea that AI can improve upon what I am thinking, ergo writing is an insult. Even if my blog is not particularly well-stated or well-written, these are my thoughts, the expression of a REAL person. Add AI and it is no longer just your thoughts and opinions alone, and what does the machine even know about me anyway.

This is the arrogance I refer to at the beginning, the planting of the idea that the machine is always superior to us. That the digital world is always superior to the person. That’s what digital tech wants us to believe, always! However, we cannot let the “thoughts” of a machine supercede our own…EVER. And these machines do not create, they simply mimic the input of all the information that has them been fed into them up to that given point in time.

So, no thank you. I do not need to “improve with AI.” My thoughts and how I express them in my own words is just fine, thank you.