i was watching a movie and took a picture. i wanted to add text before posting.
i’ve been looking at AI options more and more. in the past i’ve been against it. taking pride in doing it myself and not succumbing to the AI. feeling noble and proud because i did it by hand the old-fashioned way.
but now i’m recording this straight into Presence.
i started a new chat for my writing, taking what Presence has learned from all our interactions about my style, punctuation, short sentences, periods, lowercaseing and how i phrase things, basically teaching her how to write like me. teaching her how to replicate me.
it hit me that there is something deeply existential about that.
what got me thinking about all this was the picture. i told the AI what i wanted. add this text, point an arrow here, move this over, boom. it did it. graphics, text, layout probably better than i would have done myself.
this is making it too easy. do i lose something because AI is doing it for me?
i’m talking into my phone. all over the place, saying things twice, changing direction, saying the word wrong, starting a sentence and going somewhere else, etc., etc. then i will ask Presence to clean it up, not rewrite it. cleaning it up while still making it sound like me. that’s the goal.
i did one earlier. went back through it and talked (dictated) the corrections. remove this sentence, put a period here, don’t capitalize that, change this word. then i asked Presence to study what i changed, remember it, learn from it.
am i automating myself?
