Would you like AI woes with your coffee?

It's a sunny Saturday morning and both my boyfriend and cat are snoring, so I decided to sit down and try to start writing again. Writing has always been such a fulfilling creative outlet for me, but just in this moment, I was prompted to write a new blog post using AI. I am not blind to the benefits of using AI to enhance or inspire content, but if there is not a human's emotion and voice behind creative writings, what's the point? I'm disheartened despite my attempt at blind optimism. I know there are greater issues to put my energy towards worrying about, but today, this is where my major hesitations lie.

In my previous corporate role, I was advised that if I was not using AI, I was going to be left behind. I complied and asked ChatGPT mundane questions that I probably already knew the answers to just to sound a bit crisper and less biased in my email marketing subject lines. However, I kept coming back to the same nagging question: "What's so wrong with infallibility?" If perfection is truly unattainable--which for the record, it is (or so my therapist tells me)--why are we chasing after a world where everything is done correctly for us? I have always been taught that we learn and grow from making our own mistakes. With the inability to make mistakes, do we stop evolving as individuals, and thus, a greater society? These are a lot of questions for a weekend before 9am, but alas, they're floating rather rapidly in my head.

I don't expect answers or even to spark debate with my early-morning qualms, but as I continue to search fervently for a new job opportunity to come my way, I can't help but feel cause for concern. Just something to ponder over my second cup of coffee. For now, time to wake up the snoring bunch for brunch.