AI - Artificially Irritating

AI is the worst and I hate it.

How's that for a thesis statement?

Your Brain on AI

As a creator, AI writing makes me SO angry. It makes me feel like there's no creativity left in the world and my aspirations are pointless if I can just tell a robot to 'write me a children's book about X, Y, and Z and illustrate it.'

As an online teacher, AI-written essays, resumes, and extracurricular activity lists for college are the bane of my existence. Why even pursue higher education if you're using artificial intelligence to do your work for you?

And yes, I'm well aware that I've been using AI in different forms for a long time - but the longer it's gone on, the more subtle it's become and the more our daily lives have become infested with its various little devils.

I've been told numerous times I have to lean into it, to harness it for the good it can do, and I'm trying. Honestly, I am. With a thousand misgivings, I'm trying. This week, I created about ten different (terrible) AI ads for my books and three that I find somewhat acceptable. I still find them creepy and I can think of soooo many ways to make them better that the platform WON'T let me adjust, so that's annoying. But I've proven to myself, at least, that I'm somewhat adaptable. Get off my lawn.

Oops, that just slipped out.

I wonder what would happen if I told AI to write a blog post about AI for me?

Anywayyyyyyy. If you want to catch and maybe share some of my AI ads this week, check out my Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and/or LinkedIn pages. There's one with an AI avatar randomly stirring eggs for no good reason while she talks about my book. No. Good. Reason.

Have fun and let me know what YOU think, too!

Stephanie