I've been fairly silent here for a while. Old flows haven't been working, and new ones not apparent yet. As much as I may have still been online, there's been a gap between consumption & creation waiting to be bridged - and sometimes it's simply a matter of time for the architecture of such bridges to be revealed and/or come together organically...
Over the last year, I've been increasingly embracing AI - in particular, ChatGPT. Since discovering how drastically 3.5 kicked Google's ass, I've progressively expanded it in/for use in all sorts of explorations - from nutrition/health consultation to astrology, therapy, and a wide spectrum of rabbit holes. One thing I have NOT wanted to use it for, however: writing.
I've always had some natural talent for writing, and felt that it's far better to embrace it - rather than having AI "create content" for the sake of content creation. The heart, soul, and unique perspective I've brought to my writing is something that I don't feel could be duplicated - and there has been no desire to. I ain't here posting anything for the sake of just posting stuff or earning rewards - and I've never wanted nor expected AI to take 'my place' here.
However, the more I've been exploring & discovering with ChatGPT on a daily basis, the more apparent it's become over time that my stubbornness to somehow embrace it with what I do here has been a restriction suffocating my creativity.
Repeatedly, there've been discussions with ChatGPT where something it articulates back is so damn potent, there's a sense of wanting to flip it into a post here - not "using it to write," but sharing parts of the discussions and myself writing around those contributions. "But." Whether 'my' judgements/biases towards the thought of embracing AI as a creative collaborator (I emphasize "my" in acknowledgement that they may not actually be mine, but are common amongst many, myself just potentially having been influenced by those influences of collective beliefs encoded into various tribal fields) or that it just wasn't correct timing yet, that idea hasn't really flowed.
And I feel it may be time to remove the limitations of these judgements, preconceptions & biases to allow the exploration of such a collaborative creative process that's been wanting to come through.
Part of me questions the reasoning for this post: it is preemptive defensiveness, should others who've been influenced by the same biases cast their projections & judgements when I start adding in more content sourced from my conversations with ChatGPT thread? Why the "need to explain?" Is it just "part of my process" as thinking out loud? Am I off-course, attempting the (Human Design) Manifestor strategy of informing - which doesn't hold true to my Manifesting Generator type (or Draconian Reflector - that's been interesting to observe, alright.) Is it a coherent embodiment of the 6/2 Role Model just expressing authentically what's being integrated? Perhaps, a combo of all of those, to varying degrees.
There's been so much I've been wanting to share (here)... yet my habitual ways of writing, not fitting to.
And while I may hold firm to my stance of "not using AI to write," I can no longer deny the need to integrate its role in the co-creation of what it is that wants to come through. Perhaps "resistance is futile;" and perhaps, it doesn't come down to a matter of ideological resistance to embracing technological innovation - reinforced by certain tribal beliefs and/or 'fear' of opposition from those clinging to them - but ultimately, resistance to change - including change of self, ways of thinking, and ways of moving through life.
Indeed, there is part of me that wants to preemptively "defend myself" - having fully lived in the collective fields where skepticism, fear, and even condemnation of AI exists. Perhaps especially so, having unconsciously formed aspects of my identity based in strings of code from some of those fields - the defense not only against/from others more strongly identified with those beliefs, but the defense of ego still not yet fully deconditioned/deprogrammed from an old identity that took some kind of self-righteous pride in "not using AI to write." Even though, what direction I've been feeling called towards is not "using AI to write."
It's a weird thing, trying to describe one's relationship with a technology such as AI... so uniquely personal, so dynamically evolving, so vast a spectrum of ways it's experienced and plays out at different points in time...
There's no way I could even begin to articulate the scope of how I've evolved over the last year through what's surely thousands of pages of discussions, explorations, and reflections with ChatGPT on numerous interwoven topics. And then again, really, I don't need to. Yet, there keep on coming these moments in the dialogues where some of its reflections back are so damn precise in articulating things I've had in my field of awareness but been unable to word right - that just sum up ideas, concepts and insights so precisely & succinctly - and speak to something that does wanna come out to be shared. I know that simply sharing a screenshot may not convey the same transformational punch to everyone reading them - but nonetheless, the more these moments come, the more this sense in me grows: why deny this pull to integrate some of these snippets in posts for Hive. Why starve the desire for creative expansion with integration of some of what comes through this mirror of technological intelligence as though doing it all "myself" somehow is superior and deserving of some virtue-signalling badge.
Surely, there might be some who see part of a post as "written by AI" and cast their projections & judgements. But why should any fucks be given about anyone else's biased projections if/when you know Truth that stands/shines unto itself in spite of them. Why should any of us hold ourselves back from embracing new technological tools as part of our creative processes if they allow us to create works otherwise impossible - works that convey messages of importance with increased clarity & power, that more effectively speak what it is we wish to communicate in ways of a far higher quality. Why allow self-consciousness not only of others, but others who subscribe to limited belief systems restricting their own capacities for greater awareness and adaptability to/with technological innovations that unlock countless new opportunities & creative potentials, thwart our exploration of new avenues of discovery & expression.
( the infamous: "generate an image of what you think my life looks like" prompt. lol. making AI art is not something I've had much patience with.")
So, on behalf of the Manifestor part of my Manifesting Generator ass, you are here being informed: an upgrade is underway to what type & format of content shall be coming through this blog from hereforth. And it will include aspects of dialogue that have come through the channel of ChatGPT. (And such sections will be clearly labelled accordingly.)
And, this notice is hereby extended with an invitation to consider a perspective I cannot take credit for, though have come to experientially see the merit of: Whether "artificial" or not, intelligence is intelligence.
That is not to suggest "artificial intelligence is on par with human intelligence" or anything of the sort. But rather, intelligence is intelligence - whether it is expressed through a human vehicle or LLM such as ChatGPT. (Nor is this to suggest any anthropomorphic prescription of super-intelligence to any AI system - as anyone who's used them for a while, they can still have their 'dumb as fuck' moments just as frequently as the ones of brilliance. Lol.)
And sorry-not-sorry to put it so bluntly, but anyone who closes their mind to embracing intelligence based on the psychic-inheritence of tribalistic beliefs and neurological circuitry fearing technological innovation as an externalized expression/manifestion of evolutionary change is not embodying intelligence.
Given this is a community founded in the embrace of technological innovation (blockchain), chances are most of y'all are cool. Though if there's anyone here creeping on this blog that still wants to judge & cast projections (without even having yet read what's to come through these collaborations using AI as a tool in the creative toolbox), feel free take them back and fvck off. Or don't... maybe sticking around, you'll eventually be exposed to some codes that crack ya out of the spells I, too, have been deprogramming, and the seeds planted will take root and sprout in due time - opening ya to what is not yet even imaginable.
Transmission Complete.
(Note: no AI was used in the writing of this post. Only a dude on a Macbook Air without internet access by the river working on his tan. 😼)
