I have used AI to get answers to a lot of health questions, because I have way more questions than doctors and nurses have time to answer. I regularly use it to help me modify recipes, which works well, although I find that the recipes it creates are not that great. I recently lost my job as an editor when my team was eliminated in part because AI can now do some of our work. The other day I wrote an email to a company about a product I had bought, seeking their advice, and received an incredibly kind and thorough response that I realized halfway through was AI-generated. I can see how it helps them be efficient but my reaction was to be immediately disappointed—I thought at first I had made a connection with someone but it turned out there was no one there.
I don’t like that AI is seeping into the work of our artists and writers. I also don’t like when I start to read a post on social media that has touched me and then realized I’ve been taken. I think AI could be a useful tool for everyone, but it shouldn’t replace human creativity. I use it at work to analyze data, create charts, and sometimes analyze, difficult problems. But in the end, it is my critical thinking, which must decide which direction to move. It’s only going to give me what I prompt.
Please contact me re: the bittersweet journal I was supposed to receive after my annual renewal a couple of months ago. I tried contacting the email you noted, but it kept boomeranging back to me as undeliverable, & I haven’t received the journal yet. Thanks for your help.
Hi there, this is Renee in Susan’s office (I’m not sure why I couldn’t respond as me, sorry about that). I’m sorry your emails bounced back…in order to send you the information I need the email you use to sign into Substack. If you don’t want to write publicly, could you please send it to Renee@QuietRev.com? Remind me why you’re writing when you send the note and I’ll be happy to help you. Thanks so much.
Susan, this is how I recently used AI successfully, not in writing, but in creating an image. How do I say this, I could wordsmith all day long, but I really can't see what isn't in front of me; in other words, give me a blank palette and I can't fill it from my imagination. I have a room I have not been able to decorate or be comfortable in for a decade. A "youngster" told me to take a pix and plunk it into ChatGPT, and voila, I mean there was a room image that was me! It was just home. I have been diligently spending money creating it. :(:
Creativity is breath to our soul, sacredness to the human spirit, form of life manifesting it being through our human desire to dream, imagine, our inner child play coming to light of that shining star kissing you good night... Sacred treasure, uniquely beautiful to each of us, worth protecting at all costs for technology had giving us many great things but if we give AI or creativity, our deep thoughts to we might as well be mindless zombies following the machine for the machine itself feeds off the creativity the knowledge us humans have given it... I suppose their somethings I never come around to for my body here and now, but my Soul was born from some distant star long ago... Much Love, Stay Kind to One Another and Hold on to your Soul your Heart's Spirit, there no AI that will take the Creative Beauty out that if you don't let it...
I have mixed feelings about Ai, (as I swap from Dvorak to Qwerty keyboard)!
Ai has obvious benefits for business, science and medical research, in its ability to analyse and process vast amounts of data. But when it comes to creative endeavours, I feel like we are being challenged to prove our humanness, which is becoming increasingly difficult since Ai is trained on human creations.
I recently produced a piece of art and felt compelled to declare that Ai wasn't involved in its production, because people may have thought it was, which would have completely taken away its worth. I enjoyed the process of producing the piece and was proud of the result, but Ai could easily have done it in seconds.
I feel like we are in a transition phase, feeling our way around this technology, on the one hand clinging to our human creativity, and on the other, pushing our boundaries to find new ways of creating.
One thing that bothers me about Ai is its environmental impact. Every time we use Ai, it is being processed in massive data centres that use huge amounts of energy and water for cooling the thousands of servers that run 24/7 and have a shelf life of about three years. It's easy to forget that when we are sitting at our laptop in our quiet space "chatting" with Ai. Energy and water are precious commodities these days that could be put to better use. If you search on Youtube for a video on data centres, I'm sure you will be shocked at the scale of them.
AI is becoming ubiquitous in every facet of life. There those who believe that AI will at some point be able to perfect replicate everything’s human do and create. I’m not smart enough to know if that’s the case but I think it would be a sad thing if it does. My fear with creative expression, particular in all forms of entertainment is more that it will become for economically enriching for
I just have to say, in the creative area, like writing, I just don’’t even like the very idea of AI. I think it offers a great deal of benefit in many areas, but when I’m reading a poem, or an essay, or a book, to know that someone separate from myself was actually feeling the words they wrote about feeling is indispensable.
I do find a dampening of my enthusiasm when something is revealed as AI. That said, in my Substack-Streamweavings- (em dash intentional)- I write about the time I decided to give Claude a try for a poetry class. It assisted me in finding words to express what I was thinking/feeling. After 7 decades I’ve come accept there are some things I’m not good at but can be surprised when a tool helps me in a way I never expected.
I love dashes and have probably used them inappropriately in my writing for years. They are just so friendly and I will never stop. Helen Gurely Brown had a crafty way of writing...I can't remember what she did specifically because I haven't read her in a long, long time but she had a way of making the reader (me) feel like she was my big sister. Her style was chatty and friendly. Maybe it's time to revisit her. But I'm afraid AI will take away those special individual writing styles or it will mask them. When the words in my head are tangled and I can't seem to straighten them out, I'll use AI to help but just with a few lines or a paragraph at the most. Sometimes using AI this way puts me back into my own voice and rhythm. It finds the word I'm seeking better than a Thesaurus.
I have no interest in A.I. generated creative content and am offended by the lack of disclosure about it. I read and listen and view creative output in order to connect with another human who is sharing their experience of what it's like to be human. I need to know there is a human behind the specific content, not a machine who has scraped human content, no matter how profound, to provide me with a product. I have no interest in connecting to a machine.
I perceive of my work as me being the instrument. That makes me commit to being grounded, clear, focused, & willing to recieve. It comes through me As me & Through me.
AI is a tool that, if used wisely, can free up time so I have that time to do other things.
It can also be incredibly helpful with certain kinds of writing - not in purely creative, fiction or even no -fiction writing-as in questioning a health insurance claim.
I can express my frustration and anger about the injustice, etc, etc….and it will “translate” that and create the kind of text that those systems want and will respond to.The benefit there is relief from the heavy cognitive/emotional load of those kinds of tasks.
Having had to write dozens of such emails over the years-while sick- I was blown away by the kind of help it can provide—
That then left me with time and energy for creative pursuits.
It’s a tool….it’s here and will only grow….and needs regulating…
All of it is quite complex.
I use it for research on ways to help me reduce friction and stress in running my business. It’s still all me, but I’ve learned about various other tools I hadn’t realized could help.
My husband is not a great writer, even of emails :) Pronouns left dangling everywhere, wordy sentences that muddle the message. He was asked by a former coworker to write a letter of recommendation. He created his ideas and asked AI to format the letter, thank goodness. It was clear and concise, using his content. I think AI can be useful in certain circumstances!
I agree. There are certain types of writing that can be tedious and difficult....and for those of us who have spent years learning how to write, understanding grammar and style, etc.....I'm happy to let AI do the emotional and cognitive heavy lifting in certain specific cases.
This is the aspect of AI being here and becoming more prevalent that I find interesting. There are foolish ways to use it, of course.....nefarious ways, too.....but there are also ways to use it that make a profound difference.
With the fears being expressed that AI will take away our desire or ability to think -- well, I'd say that its mere existence is a great opportunity to think - a lot! About the good, the bad, the need for regulation, all of it. It's complex, so let's dive into the complexity instead of laying on a blanket "bad" label. If people don't find it helpful, totally respect that. An interesting opportunity to consider what it will continue to bring -- ready or not.
Susan, thank you for consistently sharing amazing artwork. My practice is to explore the artists you share and often I load the image into Google image for further information. I used Google Image for Tatyana Chernykh and wondering if you did so as well. Several sites emerged including Tatyana Chernykh Saint-Petersburg State University, History, Faculty Member, Arthive, and a few others. AI is an interesting topic. AI is a tool that has potential to purposefully serve to some extent, yet there is nothing that can replace the human mind, heart and spirit. One of my concerns is the amount of funding that AI is receiving when there are other needs, I believe, that call for attention and priority - infrastructure such as schools and bridges, mental health support, and the power required to support AI. Abundant creative minds with strong intellect in the AI arena, yet how well does this effort serve the common good? Blessings.
I have used AI to get answers to a lot of health questions, because I have way more questions than doctors and nurses have time to answer. I regularly use it to help me modify recipes, which works well, although I find that the recipes it creates are not that great. I recently lost my job as an editor when my team was eliminated in part because AI can now do some of our work. The other day I wrote an email to a company about a product I had bought, seeking their advice, and received an incredibly kind and thorough response that I realized halfway through was AI-generated. I can see how it helps them be efficient but my reaction was to be immediately disappointed—I thought at first I had made a connection with someone but it turned out there was no one there.
A colleague wants to write a book about the history of our work together.
I don’t like that AI is seeping into the work of our artists and writers. I also don’t like when I start to read a post on social media that has touched me and then realized I’ve been taken. I think AI could be a useful tool for everyone, but it shouldn’t replace human creativity. I use it at work to analyze data, create charts, and sometimes analyze, difficult problems. But in the end, it is my critical thinking, which must decide which direction to move. It’s only going to give me what I prompt.
Please contact me re: the bittersweet journal I was supposed to receive after my annual renewal a couple of months ago. I tried contacting the email you noted, but it kept boomeranging back to me as undeliverable, & I haven’t received the journal yet. Thanks for your help.
Hi there, this is Renee in Susan’s office (I’m not sure why I couldn’t respond as me, sorry about that). I’m sorry your emails bounced back…in order to send you the information I need the email you use to sign into Substack. If you don’t want to write publicly, could you please send it to Renee@QuietRev.com? Remind me why you’re writing when you send the note and I’ll be happy to help you. Thanks so much.
Susan, this is how I recently used AI successfully, not in writing, but in creating an image. How do I say this, I could wordsmith all day long, but I really can't see what isn't in front of me; in other words, give me a blank palette and I can't fill it from my imagination. I have a room I have not been able to decorate or be comfortable in for a decade. A "youngster" told me to take a pix and plunk it into ChatGPT, and voila, I mean there was a room image that was me! It was just home. I have been diligently spending money creating it. :(:
Wow, Jacie - I would love to see it!
Creativity is breath to our soul, sacredness to the human spirit, form of life manifesting it being through our human desire to dream, imagine, our inner child play coming to light of that shining star kissing you good night... Sacred treasure, uniquely beautiful to each of us, worth protecting at all costs for technology had giving us many great things but if we give AI or creativity, our deep thoughts to we might as well be mindless zombies following the machine for the machine itself feeds off the creativity the knowledge us humans have given it... I suppose their somethings I never come around to for my body here and now, but my Soul was born from some distant star long ago... Much Love, Stay Kind to One Another and Hold on to your Soul your Heart's Spirit, there no AI that will take the Creative Beauty out that if you don't let it...
I have mixed feelings about Ai, (as I swap from Dvorak to Qwerty keyboard)!
Ai has obvious benefits for business, science and medical research, in its ability to analyse and process vast amounts of data. But when it comes to creative endeavours, I feel like we are being challenged to prove our humanness, which is becoming increasingly difficult since Ai is trained on human creations.
I recently produced a piece of art and felt compelled to declare that Ai wasn't involved in its production, because people may have thought it was, which would have completely taken away its worth. I enjoyed the process of producing the piece and was proud of the result, but Ai could easily have done it in seconds.
I feel like we are in a transition phase, feeling our way around this technology, on the one hand clinging to our human creativity, and on the other, pushing our boundaries to find new ways of creating.
One thing that bothers me about Ai is its environmental impact. Every time we use Ai, it is being processed in massive data centres that use huge amounts of energy and water for cooling the thousands of servers that run 24/7 and have a shelf life of about three years. It's easy to forget that when we are sitting at our laptop in our quiet space "chatting" with Ai. Energy and water are precious commodities these days that could be put to better use. If you search on Youtube for a video on data centres, I'm sure you will be shocked at the scale of them.
…the entertainment industry to use AI than to pay humans, even if doesn’t capture the depth of the human experience in doing so.
AI is becoming ubiquitous in every facet of life. There those who believe that AI will at some point be able to perfect replicate everything’s human do and create. I’m not smart enough to know if that’s the case but I think it would be a sad thing if it does. My fear with creative expression, particular in all forms of entertainment is more that it will become for economically enriching for
I just have to say, in the creative area, like writing, I just don’’t even like the very idea of AI. I think it offers a great deal of benefit in many areas, but when I’m reading a poem, or an essay, or a book, to know that someone separate from myself was actually feeling the words they wrote about feeling is indispensable.
Yes. Agreed, I prefer the natural writing even there is a kind of mistakes but it is ok
I do find a dampening of my enthusiasm when something is revealed as AI. That said, in my Substack-Streamweavings- (em dash intentional)- I write about the time I decided to give Claude a try for a poetry class. It assisted me in finding words to express what I was thinking/feeling. After 7 decades I’ve come accept there are some things I’m not good at but can be surprised when a tool helps me in a way I never expected.
I love dashes and have probably used them inappropriately in my writing for years. They are just so friendly and I will never stop. Helen Gurely Brown had a crafty way of writing...I can't remember what she did specifically because I haven't read her in a long, long time but she had a way of making the reader (me) feel like she was my big sister. Her style was chatty and friendly. Maybe it's time to revisit her. But I'm afraid AI will take away those special individual writing styles or it will mask them. When the words in my head are tangled and I can't seem to straighten them out, I'll use AI to help but just with a few lines or a paragraph at the most. Sometimes using AI this way puts me back into my own voice and rhythm. It finds the word I'm seeking better than a Thesaurus.
I have no interest in A.I. generated creative content and am offended by the lack of disclosure about it. I read and listen and view creative output in order to connect with another human who is sharing their experience of what it's like to be human. I need to know there is a human behind the specific content, not a machine who has scraped human content, no matter how profound, to provide me with a product. I have no interest in connecting to a machine.
I perceive of my work as me being the instrument. That makes me commit to being grounded, clear, focused, & willing to recieve. It comes through me As me & Through me.
AI is a tool that, if used wisely, can free up time so I have that time to do other things.
It can also be incredibly helpful with certain kinds of writing - not in purely creative, fiction or even no -fiction writing-as in questioning a health insurance claim.
I can express my frustration and anger about the injustice, etc, etc….and it will “translate” that and create the kind of text that those systems want and will respond to.The benefit there is relief from the heavy cognitive/emotional load of those kinds of tasks.
Having had to write dozens of such emails over the years-while sick- I was blown away by the kind of help it can provide—
That then left me with time and energy for creative pursuits.
It’s a tool….it’s here and will only grow….and needs regulating…
All of it is quite complex.
I use it for research on ways to help me reduce friction and stress in running my business. It’s still all me, but I’ve learned about various other tools I hadn’t realized could help.
My husband is not a great writer, even of emails :) Pronouns left dangling everywhere, wordy sentences that muddle the message. He was asked by a former coworker to write a letter of recommendation. He created his ideas and asked AI to format the letter, thank goodness. It was clear and concise, using his content. I think AI can be useful in certain circumstances!
I agree. There are certain types of writing that can be tedious and difficult....and for those of us who have spent years learning how to write, understanding grammar and style, etc.....I'm happy to let AI do the emotional and cognitive heavy lifting in certain specific cases.
This is the aspect of AI being here and becoming more prevalent that I find interesting. There are foolish ways to use it, of course.....nefarious ways, too.....but there are also ways to use it that make a profound difference.
With the fears being expressed that AI will take away our desire or ability to think -- well, I'd say that its mere existence is a great opportunity to think - a lot! About the good, the bad, the need for regulation, all of it. It's complex, so let's dive into the complexity instead of laying on a blanket "bad" label. If people don't find it helpful, totally respect that. An interesting opportunity to consider what it will continue to bring -- ready or not.
Susan, thank you for consistently sharing amazing artwork. My practice is to explore the artists you share and often I load the image into Google image for further information. I used Google Image for Tatyana Chernykh and wondering if you did so as well. Several sites emerged including Tatyana Chernykh Saint-Petersburg State University, History, Faculty Member, Arthive, and a few others. AI is an interesting topic. AI is a tool that has potential to purposefully serve to some extent, yet there is nothing that can replace the human mind, heart and spirit. One of my concerns is the amount of funding that AI is receiving when there are other needs, I believe, that call for attention and priority - infrastructure such as schools and bridges, mental health support, and the power required to support AI. Abundant creative minds with strong intellect in the AI arena, yet how well does this effort serve the common good? Blessings.