You know what. I’m arguing against using AI. I used it for a year. Heavily. I went in expecting to hate it. Got captured and enamored by it. Then horrified. Then even more horrified when I had a hard time trying to keep myself away from it (perhaps the most concerning tell). We keep equivocating on it: “I’m not against AI, but…[insert caution, caveat, it’s a tool, it could be used for good]. We’ve seen the tech story play out on social media. It went twisted, sideways, I’d argue a net negative tech-advancement. I see AI as a further corruption on top of an already corrupt system. Maybe in different hands, in a different time, place or government—MAYBE—you could get me on board. But I’m standing up for humanness. For not creating Frankenstein’s monster. And I’m getting real tired of the slanting takes that start from a place of morality and then undercut the argument with the “but I’m not against AI used correctly.”

Maybe we’re all so enamored with it’s possibility as a tool because we’ve created a world with too much content, it’s too hard to keep up, we’re all exhausted, and yet we all need to hustle, build a brand, churn content—ofc we’re willing to outsource to a machine who could make that easier.

But should we be doing these things at all anyway? If you need a machine to keep up with the very things humans should be able to do on their own (talk to each other, relate to each other)—maybe we’ve constructed a world and a system that isn’t working for humans. At all. And AI’s promises are nothing but a mirage in the desert.