AI is beginning to feel a little bit...extra...in the process

I’ve been tinkering and working with AI over the past year or so.

It’s no secret that it’s a powerful innovation that can be used to do amazing things that are beyond the capabilities of human thought, but we have a tendency to take such technology and use it for the most inappropriate and mundane things. It’s kinda like when Tony Stark uses Captain America’s shield as a leveler for his mini-particle accelerator.

Then there are the instances where it occurs to you that maybe it’s more of a hinderance because you try to use when for too much — like a nail looking for a hammer so it can be used to hold up a holiday greeting card in your garage.

After reading “The War of Art” by Steven Pressfield, I’m beginning to understand why AI feels so…forced.

It’s not that it’s not a useful tool. It is. It really is. But after using it for a year, I’ve realized that my creative process really doesn’t need it for everything that I’ve tried to use it for.

For me, it’s more useful for editing and feedback. Ideation is really not something that I have an issue with, and it’s something that I genuinely enjoy doing because of all the life experiences that I’ve come to appreciate. Over the past few years of writing, I’ve become even more fully in tune with the present moments of what I consume and what I think. When I throw these insights into AI to see if it will expand it into something with more depth, I receive all sorts of interesting tidbits…

The only problem is that they all feel like they’ve been scraped from a mass of grey goo…kinda like what happens when your four-year old gets a Play-Doh set. They proceed to treat it like they’re in charge of forming the next Brethren Moon from the Dead Space series, mashing all the colors together as fast as they can.

There’s no soul in what comes out. Using AI for artistic purposes is about as meaningless an application for it as you can fathom.

And yes, this is a “thank you Captain Obvious” moment, but it’s one that took me a while to fully realize. I’ll still be using AI of course for all the potential that it has to unlock and enhance my performance and learning, but it’s definitely not appealing in this vein.

Just thought I'd shake things up today outside of my regularly scheduled postings.

Only a few weeks left of 2025…