AI is making us lazy

I have been using AI for a few months, and I don’t even want to write captions for Instagram anymore. It corrects my grammar and typos. It writes SEO articles and captions without thinking. The irony is that the articles were written to be read by another scanning robot and ranked in that fashion. I hardly even read anymore because I can have a robot talk to me instead of reading it myself.

Some of the editing I do is AI, and some of the writing I do is AI. It’s all making things easier, but I have found that so much complication happens when things become too convenient. I am not one to try to slow the progress of something that is inevitable, but I imagine things (Visually) will change a lot faster than they have, and I wonder how it will affect our ability to communicate.

I have found AI writing to be vague and mostly filler, and I have found the art work to be the same. The generative fill in Photoshop can be clever, but it’s been difficult for me to modify and perfect. At best, I feel like it’s a good starting point or placeholder. It has yet to produce a final product that I am satisfied with. In other words, I’m not worried about losing my job as of now. I don’t think the copywriters and voiceover folks are going anywhere, and I don’t think art is going to be making a shift. I am SUPER curious about what it will be able to do with CGI and animation.

Playing with AI can be fun, and I think that is a fundamental requirement for learning. If you don’t try it, How do you know if it works? I like to make it guess colors and textures; sometimes it works really well, and other times the results are nothing short of comical. The websites and software I have used to play with these ideas are Photoshop (beta) and Adobe Firefly for some illustrations and fun or silly effects. I’ve also used it alongside the MidJourney bot to see what differences they produce.

I’ve used many AI writing programs, and I think they are the most refined because there is so much text that can be scanned. Billions of words and articles. I like using chat.openai.com to write small things like scripts, paraphrase, or rewrite articles for sharing. I make it write my tweets, and sometimes it works for captions. It’s very popular and crashes a lot now. The best one for captions and the easiest one to tweak is copymatic.ai. I enjoy using it because it’s far more personal than OpenAI.

I have lots of thoughts about this, and if you would like to share some of yours, I’m all ears. I wrote this article in hopes of getting some feedback and maybe even some good ideas about how to tweak and use AI for the greater good. Thanks for reading!