This is lovely - sympathetic resonance. I’ve always told people that the reason AI won’t take my job away is because people will always resonate with art that was created by a soul.
I love this. I have tried to have AI edit some poetry and it doesn't do a good job in my opinion. It loses the resonance. It dulls it and makes it insipid and rhyme (shudder, lol). It may be a fine tool but I like getting lost sometimes and taking side roads and back ways and the most eco efficient route may not be what I want. God bless the ones for whom it works but I'll stick with my meanderings.
Oh gosh. This was everything I needed today. I’ve become so frustrated with AI generated posts and captions. Even my favourite astrologists and forecasters are using it and I can no longer FEEL them in their posts. There’s a very detectable rhythm that AI writes in and I ended up deleting IG and being more intentional with substack and stumbled upon this. Thank you so much angel x
Beautiful Allie. I love the zesty blurred lines of this and your humanness in the most artful way xx ‘perfection and speed are not the point’ Yes yes yes!!!!
I ask ChatGPT to review important and/ or highly emotionally-charged texts and emails and to flag them for sarcasm, hostility, or snark. I’ve also asked her to analyze my motivation for sending said texts and emails…especially when emotions are running high. She’s very good at detecting potential landmines. (This sounds passive aggressive, she’s warned me. This sounds highly critical, she’s pointed out.)
I have done the same because I can be very blunt and full of snark😆I think Chat is useful as a second set of eyes, but not as the hand holding the pen.
“The more I outsource answers, the more my internal capabilities atrophy.” Yes, yes, yes. I’m writing a fiction book right now and in the beginning I plugged my characters and the world I was building into ChatGPT. While alluring and masked as inspiration, it created a total disconnect for me.
mmm yes. using Chat for creativity is like asking the intellect to create from the heart. which turns out to only be a concept verses the living beating felt experience — and that is what viewers connect to. even if the concept is more polished, the heartbeat just isn’t felt 💓
I wonder if the problem with AI is the AI or the people who decide how to use it to generate vast profits that they use to buy everything that everyone else can no longer afford.
So beautiful! Loved reading this. My dad used to make me read his britannica encyclopaedia collection, I am currently writing a fantasy novel and I, too, have had my own version of these reckonings with AI. Thank you for putting your thoughts and feelings into such eloquent magic for us all x
This is brilliant…and I say that as an artist and computer scientist…who understands not one Chord which can be played. But he who understood the sympathetic resonance of an entire symphony across the room of a special someone not performing at all.
I’m personal to the idea of A.I. Because as an engineer…there is no better way to construct computer art with the aid of a computer aiding the syntax. But you could NEVER ask the A.I model to design software. If you find success…it’s elementary instruction, my dear Watson.
On the other hand as a writer. I fear my stories I walk around telling are stuffed into an A.I bot by someone jealous…looking to quickly water down my creative inspiration.
A.I can never appreciate the detail and meaning of your thought, heart, or experience. It’s only metadata tags implying some literary art is in high review.
Miss Allie, you inspire composers to write and singers to perform. And wish to be artists to brave the traffic!!!
The fear of A.I taking one’s job…is the fear your bosses will outsource your inability to be creative.
Creatives don’t need that fear. So simply don’t fall victim to believing yourself the imposter.
this hit the right Cord.. excuse the Pun.. its all about authenticity opening the heart, receiving and transmitting a certain frequency, that bring a tear, a chill (Annie Lennox springs to mind), or opens the heart off another, for however brief a time. Chat GPT will never move people in this way.. its only as good as its programming, from people, and self.. these are usually IT people, living in a box (dark room), full of Timelines and fears.. that rarely seek to feel the customer or themselves. Unlike the Artist, who approaches it exactly the other way around.. As I just start to discover this (I admit, I was in IT), its like opening a Pandora's box, full of spikey roses
I deeply enjoyed your text 'Imposter Syndrome As a Writer' because of the vulnerability sustaining the narrative flow and the emotional path of the reader as well. Yet I didn't know when I would let a comment. This new text is that sort of invitation - like an open window. Not at full exposure. So, I accept the invitation. Would you be kind to read one of my poems: 'Stillness of mine' because it is both old and new. Vivid and vulnerable. And I sense that we will discuss literature in the future.
I once asked ChatGPT to help me with lyrics for a song I wrote. It did a passable job, producing stock phrases that worked. But the result was rather trite, with no real depth of feeling. Words with depth had to come from my own heart.
This is lovely - sympathetic resonance. I’ve always told people that the reason AI won’t take my job away is because people will always resonate with art that was created by a soul.
I love this. I have tried to have AI edit some poetry and it doesn't do a good job in my opinion. It loses the resonance. It dulls it and makes it insipid and rhyme (shudder, lol). It may be a fine tool but I like getting lost sometimes and taking side roads and back ways and the most eco efficient route may not be what I want. God bless the ones for whom it works but I'll stick with my meanderings.
Writing poetry to get the thought out > writing poetry for appreciation
Oh gosh. This was everything I needed today. I’ve become so frustrated with AI generated posts and captions. Even my favourite astrologists and forecasters are using it and I can no longer FEEL them in their posts. There’s a very detectable rhythm that AI writes in and I ended up deleting IG and being more intentional with substack and stumbled upon this. Thank you so much angel x
This is exactly why ChatGPT cannot and will not ever be a better writer than you. It has no soul.
Beautiful Allie. I love the zesty blurred lines of this and your humanness in the most artful way xx ‘perfection and speed are not the point’ Yes yes yes!!!!
I ask ChatGPT to review important and/ or highly emotionally-charged texts and emails and to flag them for sarcasm, hostility, or snark. I’ve also asked her to analyze my motivation for sending said texts and emails…especially when emotions are running high. She’s very good at detecting potential landmines. (This sounds passive aggressive, she’s warned me. This sounds highly critical, she’s pointed out.)
I have done the same because I can be very blunt and full of snark😆I think Chat is useful as a second set of eyes, but not as the hand holding the pen.
“The more I outsource answers, the more my internal capabilities atrophy.” Yes, yes, yes. I’m writing a fiction book right now and in the beginning I plugged my characters and the world I was building into ChatGPT. While alluring and masked as inspiration, it created a total disconnect for me.
mmm yes. using Chat for creativity is like asking the intellect to create from the heart. which turns out to only be a concept verses the living beating felt experience — and that is what viewers connect to. even if the concept is more polished, the heartbeat just isn’t felt 💓
I wonder if the problem with AI is the AI or the people who decide how to use it to generate vast profits that they use to buy everything that everyone else can no longer afford.
So beautiful! Loved reading this. My dad used to make me read his britannica encyclopaedia collection, I am currently writing a fantasy novel and I, too, have had my own version of these reckonings with AI. Thank you for putting your thoughts and feelings into such eloquent magic for us all x
This post helped me a lot! Glad I am not using Chat GPT anymore! lol
This is brilliant…and I say that as an artist and computer scientist…who understands not one Chord which can be played. But he who understood the sympathetic resonance of an entire symphony across the room of a special someone not performing at all.
I’m personal to the idea of A.I. Because as an engineer…there is no better way to construct computer art with the aid of a computer aiding the syntax. But you could NEVER ask the A.I model to design software. If you find success…it’s elementary instruction, my dear Watson.
On the other hand as a writer. I fear my stories I walk around telling are stuffed into an A.I bot by someone jealous…looking to quickly water down my creative inspiration.
A.I can never appreciate the detail and meaning of your thought, heart, or experience. It’s only metadata tags implying some literary art is in high review.
Miss Allie, you inspire composers to write and singers to perform. And wish to be artists to brave the traffic!!!
The fear of A.I taking one’s job…is the fear your bosses will outsource your inability to be creative.
Creatives don’t need that fear. So simply don’t fall victim to believing yourself the imposter.
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this hit the right Cord.. excuse the Pun.. its all about authenticity opening the heart, receiving and transmitting a certain frequency, that bring a tear, a chill (Annie Lennox springs to mind), or opens the heart off another, for however brief a time. Chat GPT will never move people in this way.. its only as good as its programming, from people, and self.. these are usually IT people, living in a box (dark room), full of Timelines and fears.. that rarely seek to feel the customer or themselves. Unlike the Artist, who approaches it exactly the other way around.. As I just start to discover this (I admit, I was in IT), its like opening a Pandora's box, full of spikey roses
I deeply enjoyed your text 'Imposter Syndrome As a Writer' because of the vulnerability sustaining the narrative flow and the emotional path of the reader as well. Yet I didn't know when I would let a comment. This new text is that sort of invitation - like an open window. Not at full exposure. So, I accept the invitation. Would you be kind to read one of my poems: 'Stillness of mine' because it is both old and new. Vivid and vulnerable. And I sense that we will discuss literature in the future.
I once asked ChatGPT to help me with lyrics for a song I wrote. It did a passable job, producing stock phrases that worked. But the result was rather trite, with no real depth of feeling. Words with depth had to come from my own heart.