A sliver of sunlight in a stairwell of concrete.

Honestly, this is so depressing.

As I write this post on my WordPress platform, I have the capability to enable an AI client with the click of a button. It would only take a second to do. And after that all I need do is ask AI to write my posts for me. It could even generate my photography.

In the time it takes for me to make myself a pour-over coffee, the AI tools would generate a whole week of posts and interesting photos, schedule them, optimise the content for discovery and check to see if any previous post comments might need answering.

WordPress regularly emails me to gush about the amazingness of this technology. Just click the enable button…..and we will take care of everything… freeing up your time for more important tasks.

But do not fret, dear reader.
I will continue to resist the slop. I will continue to ramble illogically, make frequent spelling mistakes¹, write about weird and unsubstantiated topics, ejaculate political incorrectness, mix metaphors, break the laws of both grammar & physics, link way too many sentences with the word ‘and’, and post meaningful photos of real things that are only lightly edited by hand².

I will also immediately unsubscribe from any feed I follow that I suspect is using AI to generate its content³. Which, turns out, seems to be way more than I imagined.

Leaving me with an eclectic feed of indie websites, off piste topics and likeminded folk who are trying desperately to tread human in an ocean of stolen content and artificial diarrhoea.

My challenge to you is to do the same. Get the fuck off the big concrete stairwell social media platforms. ALL of them.
Creatively curate your content consumption.
Explore the feet-of-clay wisdom and atelic serendipity hiding in the human generated world wide web.
Contribute however you can.

1. Full disclosure: the only AI tool I do use is to spellcheck my posts. When I remember. ↩︎
2. My photo editing software also nags me to enable AI tools to ‘improve’ the photos. My workflow consists of come cropping, light adjustments to contrast and brightness etc, sometimes adding a little HDR and adding a frame and watermark. That is it. ↩︎
3. This is getting trickier to do as both AI gets more competent and writers get better at integrating it. ↩︎