Authenticity VS. AI: Hypocrites or Flawed?

“Tell the

story only

your ghost can tell.

Because even in a world

that learns to speak

without a voice,

the real will always tremble

a little more.

And the trembling

is how we know

it’s alive.”

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Authenticity VS. AI by yours truly.

Spirit probably would’ve

been more suited than ghost

but spirit is used pretty often,

so I rebelled and went with ghost.

Shadow would make more sense;

to err is human, as they say.

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“We taught

the machine

how to echo

ache.

We did.

Truly, it

may just

be

our own

fault.”

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Authenticity VS. AI II by yours truly.

These days,

five months later,

the words ring truer

than ever before.

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Part one

was more

of a statement,

or at least,

that’s what I’d been

going for;

AI can’t replace

our emotions

of anger, sorrow,

happiness, etc.

and our need to

put these feelings

into words, drawings,

music, or whatever else.

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Part two

was both

a double down

and an extension

of part one;

“don’t give me

a story that

works.

Give me

a story that

hurts.”

I want emotion,

not emptiness.

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This is

not a

part three.

This is

more like

a spinoff.

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This is

me putting

down my current

confusing, disruptive

thoughts

in another sloppy

as fuck “poem”.

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It doesn’t

really feel

like a poem

at the moment.

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Maybe it

will later.

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Anyway,

I guess I should

just go for it.

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I think that

some of us,

on here

and elsewhere

on the internet,

may be hypocrites,

if not just morally flawed.

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HEY!

Put that

pitchfork down!

I said

“may be”,

not “we are”.

Chill, bro.

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Humor aside,

I’ve felt

like this for

a while now.

Like, a few

weeks tops.

I don’t know

if it’s just guilt,

or confusion,

or a moral dilemma,

or all the above.

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We type

that AI is

killing creativity,

which is

far too true

and I hate it.

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We condemn it.

Either partially,

because it’s

useful for something

unrelated to writing

(or specifically

a hobby we focus

on the most),

or fully,

because some

people hate AI

entirely.

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So, uh,

then why

do just about

all of us

use AI products

anyway?

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Such as:

images,

music,

venting,

and research?

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Reluctant or not,

it’s still AI usage.

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Personally,

all four of those

things, I am guilty of.

I have generated AI images.

I have generated AI music.

I have vented to ChatGPT,

knowing it’ll tell me what I want,

so I can calm the fuck down faster.

I have asked for sources through AI,

and double checked intensely through

websites Google suggested.

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Yet,

AI writing

pisses me off,

so goddamn much,

because I, personally,

write whenever I can,

about literally anything,

usually personal feelings,

or from dark corners of my mind.

Sometimes,

it’s just rambling

in poem form,

like this,

or it’s something

more proper, with rhymes

and generic metaphors,

and short stories

with unhappy themes,

for the most part.

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I mourn

the loss of

writing creativity,

yet am unbothered

when it doesn’t pertain

to me, a.k.a.

images and music.

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Personally,

I think I am

feeling so bad

about it that I’m

thinking

“I am a hypocrite”

instead of

“I’m a flawed human”,

because our first

thoughts usually

go towards being

negative towards

ourselves for something

that just happens.

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You might be, too,

thinking this

instead of the other

if you are feeling

some sort of remorse,

or guilt. Hell,

if I just pissed you off,

or it’s got you feeling

some type of way,

like you feel personally

called out,

then, yeah,

you’re probably

going through the

same steps.

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We can

say that

there’s a

difference

between them,

but, personally,

I think that’s just

an excuse to feel

better about using

an AI tool in general,

after complaining

about something

about it.

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Some folks

even use AI

to check for AI

and believe in the

verdict it gives,

even though it is

more likely to tell you

that real is fake,

and fake is real,

because it guesses,

it lies, and it can’t

tell the difference between

a hard thinking human

and a machine trying

to copy them word for word.

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Hell,

sometimes,

first thing I

think when I

see a pretty generic

comment, it’s

“that’s AI”,

when the person

could just be

awkward,

ranty,

excited,

angry,

upset,

meh,

lazy,

and so on.

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"Exposing"

others just

exposes yourself

more, so I

did both.

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I

am

flawed.

*

All

of

us

are

flawed.

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We

have

freak

outs,

like this

“poem” of

mine.

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And

that’s

okay.

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It’s

okay

to

rant

or

feel

bad.

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To

err

is

human.