The struggle is real. Here I am, pontificating profusely on the state of the modern Web and the need for humans to wrest back control from corporate `Tech Bro` commercialization, and yet feeling the urge to turn to our LLM overlords in my time of need. The AI mind-virus has struck again; and yet...writing is hard. There isn't any getting away from it. ChatGPT could say this so much more eloquently than I...maybe I should just...NO! Stop it. Do NOT feed the machine.
And this is the danger. AI - specifically in this context, LLMs - can become a crutch to lean on when things get tough. As a writer, you get stuck. You either run out of things to say (a catastrophic condition) or (more commonly) you find it damn near impossible to articulate what's in your head; the translation process halts, breaks down. You need to push through it, and it's hard to do. But there's this tool...
As imperfect as my writing often is, I feel it's vitally important that it is my writing and not the output of some faceless algorithm. I mean, that's the whole point of this website, right? To demonstrate in my own little way, on my own little corner of the Web, that humans - honest to God people - are still out here, that we still matter. Right?
Let's not blame the tools. We create them. The real enemy is our own ingenuity, our own laziness, our systemic pathological need to add complexity to everything. The Human Condition flies in the face of entropy. We create complexity in the face of simplicity. But sometimes simplicity is pefection. We need to be OK with that.
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