Why I won’t use AI on this blog
It's not that I principally hate anything AI, people have valid reasons for having that opinion but I am not one of those people. I use AI in my day-to-day for programming and it makes my life genuinely better. Still I don't use it here, on this blog. AI is great for programming because it is a technical tool, but a blog is an artistic pursuit.
Art (to me) is about coping with this thing called life. AI does not experience life, it is not held by a parent, is not bullied in school, does not fall in love, is not nervous for a job interview. Therefore it is inherently a bad candidate for helping me figure this all out.
Maybe you can imagine an AI, placed in a robot body, forced to live a human life. But we already have billions of humans doing that, what is the point in having an AI do it too?
AI is in many ways different from human intelligence, and that is exactly the point. AI is assistive, making up for the shortcoming of human minds. That why it is so great for programming, it can read a whole code base in a few seconds, a human mind can do it too, it just takes longer. But the human is still at the helm, they decide the why of the codebase, the purpose of that code.
Now you're thinking, AI contains the collective writings of all philosophers to have ever lived, surely all that knowledge can benefit us? Well yes, it can be a great discovery tool but it cannot do the thinking for me, writing the blog is the thinking process (hence the name).
Note: With "AI" I really mean Large Language Models like ChatGPT.