Granada, Nicaragua
The other day I noticed that Matcha went offline.
She is a Roomba style robot vacuum cleaner.
Before we found her I mentioned to Kelli how Matcha disappeared in the mountainous forests of rural Panama to plot the AI apocalypse.
You heard it here, first.
Jokes aside, on a more truthful note, I wanted to share my thoughts on AI blogging and one possible scenario.
AI is not scheduled to end the world, I believe. I think we are good for a while.
AI does boast some positive applications as the world judges it.
AI is not stealing any blogger’s jobs or online businesses, anytime soon.
But this dispassionate, logical scenario based on common sense thinking and the psychology of the world paints one possible image which serves as food for thought.
Shipping Terminal Security Guard
20 years ago, I was a security guard in a shipping terminal.
We had a relatively strong union. In general, the terminal told us that human manpower worked best for the docks in security guard terms. We were needed. Big-time. Human judgment, experience and observation created the most secure port…..
….until the terminal did the math and figured out how investing $600 million in a computerized system and firing most guards made more money for the company over the long haul.
I got the pink slip because an artificial form of intelligence made more money for the company than human beings.
I gratefully accepted the pink slip, began blogging and here I am 20 years later.
My logical conclusion: the Western world is largely run by greed fueling bottom line results masked as capitalism. Capitalism rocks. But fear, greed and scarcity drive it because the best way to achieve the bottom line always supersedes how decisions affection the community as a whole.
Neither good nor bad, it is how the business world works. Case closed.
Which brings us to AI blogging….
AI Blogging Scenario
Bloggers who support AI blogging as providing some benefit, some helpfulness and some service for bloggers and readers potentially make some good points….for now.
But using and promoting certain AI applications for now also motivates the world, its capitalism and overall corporate greed focused heavily on the bottom line to invest billions and billions for now and the future into programming AI to become far more intelligent and capable of doing more things that humans no longer need to do.
Meanwhile…..for now…..the human mind not doing as much because it relies on AI for more goes deeper into sleep because if you do not exercise the mind, it becomes less aware, less alert, and more mindless. Mindlessness causes all of the problems in the world because you become less aware of how you affect others and more aware of only trying to take care of yourself in a more mindless state.
As bloggers become more mindless and focused only on their individual survival needs and the billions for the bottom line seed AI which becomes highly intelligent and quite capable of doing more complex blogging tasks, and since more mindless humans get fooled by AI generated content (since AI has become such a huge part of everyone’s life)…..it can start taking blogging jobs and snatching up online blogging businesses like a crafty Times Square pick pocket. As far as timelines, not any time soon. But choosing to use AI for any blogging task now increases the chances that this scenario plays out over the long haul.
I’m not predicting this future but laying out a possible scenario.
Bloggers who use it think about now and mild, seemingly benign, functions without thinking about how big billions, capitalism and the bottom line mentality of the world does NOT consider mild, seemingly benign, usage. Nor do these bloggers consider how using AI has affected the quality of their mind and work, and how it progressively has and will make them more mindless, less aware and unable to grasp the concept that greed needs the tiniest little crack to swing a door wide open.
Why I Mention *For Now*
Check out the bold letters above.
I mention *for now* again and again to drill home this point: being temporary mindless for now makes you completely blind to what the big money which makes the big decisions is doing now for the future.
My former employer guaranteed me that humans would be pier guards for decades. I believed these people but the big money at the company always focuses on the bottom line, as is the case with capitalism.
Most of the pier guard work force behaved as if it’d been run over by a Mack truck on receiving the pink slip because in their *for now* mindlessness they became blinded to the big money bottom line. I welcomed the axing but felt surprised because I too became a little mindless and naive.
Mindless bloggers becoming more reliant on AI in the *for now* mindset combined with clever AI programs backed by billions of dollars, from the individuals who pull the strings, will quickly make generic blogs redundant. But many currently respected, credible and trustworthy bloggers will get steamrolled too because their reliance on AI for such a long stretch dulled their mind, clouded their vision and deepened their blindness, to where they stopped being able to see the handwriting on the wall.
The more you use something artificial the less you see the needs, wants and desires of others because your increasing mindlessness makes it so. But the real issue is not seeing, understanding or realizing how the bottom line and big money will wipe you and your blog out unless you are highly mentally awake, creative, innovative, imaginative and a flat out visionary.
Blogging From Paradise Stance on AI
I advise that you use your mind to blog or else risk being drowned out by millions who use AI to blog because you will sound similar to them, using similar or identical prompts.
Using your mind to blog is challenging but fun. Plus you will discover how standing out – not fitting in – by sharing your unique perspective is how to drive quality traffic and blogging income.
Some of you believe that using AI for now will help you sound different from others, seems easy and beneficial for your readers and how human editing and re-writing the posts adds your unique perspective. But none of these ideas are true because none passes the basic logic test: if you use something used by millions which offers similar or nearly identical output you will sound similar to millions, meaning, not unique, nor will you stand out, nor will it be easy or beneficial to readers if you serve ’em more generic-sounding content.
But the biggest error is blinding yourself from this possible scenario of big money, capitalism and the world in general making your blog redundant because your increasing mindlessness and the billions of dollars focused on the bottom line combine to make it so.
The End Game
I have no clue in hell whether or not this will happen.
But at least you can connect some dots and possibly rethink your light AI usage as a blogger now considering how it may well fuel the bottom line thinking of the world to make your blog irrelevant.
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