The Experience of Viewing the Remarks Produced by AI

Here’s what it truly feels like to earn appreciation from a machine and why your real, fallible humanity still counts most online.

When the words seem genuine, but there is no emotion conveyed.

1. The First Comment That Seemed Fake

Just another night of publishing stories on Medium it was business as usual.
It wasn't flawless, but it was unfiltered, heartfelt, and penned from that inside space where ideas aren't refined, simply real.

After that, a message appeared.
A remark had been made.

You've written a fantastic piece.
I am genuinely inspired by your viewpoint.
Continue doing an excellent job.

It should’ve made me smile.
But instead, something inside me went quiet.

It was too slick.
Too perfect.
Too empty.

I copied the comment, pasted it into Google and there it was a dozen similar comments strewn over different blogs.

That’s when I discovered it wasn’t a human who spoke to me but It was a machine and somehow, that hurt more than I imagined

2. When Validation Feels Manufactured

Writers don’t write for claps alone.
We write to connect to feel seen.

Every time someone comments, it’s not just feedback, it's a signal.
A whisper that says

Hey, I read your thoughts, I felt them too.

But what happens when that whisper is artificial?
When the warmth in the words is produced, not genuine?

It feels like being hugged by a ghost.
You can sense the shape of the emotion, but not the warmth of it and suddenly, all that affirmation whose likes, those comments, those “great post answers, they lose their value.

Because connection without consciousness isn’t connection.
It's a simulation.

3. The Paradox of the AI Era

We live in a strange time.
Writers utilize AI to create.
Readers use AI to remark.
Soon, maybe, AIs will reply to each other while humans only observe.

We say we desire authenticity.
But we’re automating our emotions, our voices, our empathy.

We call it efficiency, but maybe it's an escape.

We’re steadily forgetting how to be human online and maybe, even offline.

It makes me wonder

If no one’s truly feeling the words, is anyone really talking?

4. What It Feels Like Up Close

It feels like applause from an empty theater.
It appears like engagement, but it sounds like silence.

You start questioning: Did anyone actually read what I wrote?
Did anyone feel it?

I can’t totally blame AI, because it's smart, useful and even brilliant in its own way.
It saves time, improves ideas, and helps authors like us shape thoughts faster.

But there’s something about AI that can't fake empathy.
It can imitate emotion, but it can’t feel it.
It can describe a sunset, but it can’t sit in awe of it.

5. The Imperfection That Makes Us Human

The little typo that displays your joy.
The jumbled paragraph that suggests you were crying while writing.
The raw, unedited sentence you almost deleted but didn’t.

Those are not mistakes.
They are fingerprints.
They prove you were here.

Perfection is the enemy of connection and AI, for all its brilliance, is a little too perfect.

6. My Turning Point as a Writer

After that moment, I made a quiet pledge to myself, If someone comments on my post, I’ll welcome it but I’ll check for the pulse.

I’ll seek for the warmth behind the words, not simply the words themselves and more importantly I’ll never stop writing like a human.

Because that’s what readers genuinely need not automation, not optimization, but authenticity.

Even if AI learns to replicate humanity perfectly, I’ll still prefer to bleed on the page.
Because that’s what writing is intended to be, not clean, not cold, but alive.

7. To Every Writer Reading This

If you ever feel disheartened because nobody’s commenting because you assume no one’s reading remember this:

Even one real A person who reads your words is worth more than a thousand bots claiming to care.

One human connection outweighs a thousand algorithmic exchanges.

Your words don’t need millions of eyes.
They just need one soul to see them.

Keep writing like a person.
Because real people can tell the difference.

8. The Future Isn’t About AI It’s About Awareness

AI isn’t the enemy. Unawareness is.
Use AI to support you, not to replace you.
Let it modify your grammar, not your truth.
Let it mend your commas not your voice.

Because the world doesn’t need another perfect post.
It needs something real.

Something that reminds people what it is to feel.

Seeing AI-generated comments on my postings seems like seeing technology cheer for me loud but lifeless.

But it also reminded me of something powerful: In a world where everything is automated, Being human becomes a superpower.

The errors, the fragility, the wobbly phrases they’re not defects.
They’re proof that you’re alive and that’s what will always separate us fro
Next time you remark on someone’s post, don’t let AI compose it for you.
Take 10 seconds to feel what their comments made you feel.
Then say something real even if it’s just:

This touched me.
I felt this.
Thank you for writing this.

Because you can feel it, AI can't and that’s what will always make your presence matters