I see far too many AI-written descriptions in Instagram, and it’s so fucking boring to read. It sounds so cold and monotonous to the point it almost feels offensive. It uses the same syntax and speech pattern over and over; like a middle manager-speak.

But on the one hand, if we are seeing too many AI-written descriptions, then it means the creator of the page can’t think of better descriptions themselves and rely on AI instead. It means the AI is only mirroring the creator’s lack of originality. Humans are actually the ones lacking in originality.

You don’t get build muscle using an excavator to lift weights. You don’t produce interesting thoughts using a GPU to think.

I’m stealing that 😈 though I’ll probably switch out the first example for something different, because I am a person with a soul, so I can 💅🏻

(Side note : I never thought I’d be boasting about literally just existing 😂 what interesting times we live through)

Ideas are then further refined when you try to articulate them. […] It’s the work that matters.

Yes! This post hits the nail on the head.

There’s a certain conversation that I’m sure you’ve had if you knew how to code between 2008 and 2015, right in the middle of the smartphone app “gold rush.” It’s when a person would approach you and say, “Oh, you can code? Sick! I’ve got this million dollar idea for an app. Bro, if you write the code for it, I’ll split the profits with you, 50/50.* You in?”

This person was wrong about a couple of things:

1. Their million dollar idea is not nearly as well thought out as they believed it to be.
2. A million dollar idea is not actually worth a million dollars. It’s not even worth $500,000 (y’know, with their generous 50/50 split).

This type of person tends to think in incredibly abstract terms. They’re always talking about things at a very high level, likely because they don’t actually know how to do things at the implementation level. So they don’t understand (or are willfully ignorant) of the fact that the real value of an idea is in it’s implementation. The costs, and the payoff, come when you have people actually building something.

But it’s not just the monetary value that lies there; that’s also where real discoveries happen. The growth in that field of knowledge, and your growth as a person, happen when you actually do the damn thing. The benefit of actually building something yourself is not just in the thing you built, but that you learned and grew while doing it.

And now, with AI, that mentally undercooked “idea man” will get to go through life believing that his abstract, vague ideas really are a gift to the world by themself; no other skills necessary. Even if some of them do end up being valuable in a dollar amount, the personal growth just will not happen.

* Also they would usually try to offer you more like 10%.

Since apparently gen AI provably can’t have basic logical thoughts, their lack of uh… original thought is not surprising at all.

My email keeps making fully completed response emails and they’re dreadfully boring. Same for my texting app. It’s all so… unoriginal.

Even an official reply to something, like a doctor or a student, I can’t imagine not writing it myself.