When I logged into Steemit this morning, I found a comment on one of my posts saying, "Spam de Chat GPT," and I immediately felt sad and insulted. You might say, grow a thicker skin; trolls are everywhere nowadays. But is it really a troll? Maybe it's just a fellow writer who puts a lot of work into their writing but doesn't get upvotes. Maybe they’re just like me—annoyed by the ever-growing amount of garbage the internet is littered with. Maybe they want attention or feel unappreciated. Maybe they want people to stop reading my texts or fear I could be successful. I don’t know; I can only speculate.
I don’t need Chat GPT to give me ideas; my head is full of them. I don’t need it to write a text for me. If I ever use it, it's only to check my grammar or format the text in markdown. I’ve been sitting on this text for 2.5 hours because I feel like I need to defend myself against stigmatization.
I get frustrated too when I search YouTube to learn something or figure out how to repair something, only to find a myriad of videos from so-called influencers who unpack or present things instead of teaching anything useful. It takes more and more time to find what I’m looking for. The same goes for games on Steam, especially since the arrival of early access, or even music. People, instead of working hard, trying, failing, and eventually developing something great, would rather copy successful ideas. Today's technology enables them to do just that.
This leads to an ever-growing library of music that all sounds the same, games that are either incomplete or feel soulless, videos that show the same thing over and over again—and the list goes on.
I remember when I first saw Khaby Lame’s videos and his funny facial expressions while reacting to other people's content. After his success and the media attention, the number of people doing the same thing exploded. Every platform is now full of copycats. While some are funny, most are just boring.
Another personal annoyance is the constant mention of "like and subscribe." Am I the only one who likes and subscribes only when I truly appreciate the content? It feels like walking down a street full of restaurants where every five meters, someone pulls you in, asking you to eat at their place. That’s what "like and subscribe" feels like to me.
I fear the same thing will happen to written content with tools like ChatGPT and other AI writing systems. This could lead to more empty space filled with empty words. Imagine if a screenwriter achieves success with an AI-generated movie script or book, and the media starts reporting about it. I can already hear the "bling bling" of cash registers in people’s minds, seeing dollar signs in their eyes.
Everyone sees the pile of money when they look at a million dollars in cash. But when it’s divided among a million people, each only gets a dollar. There’s no money in copying. If you want to own the stack, you have to work for it and be the first at something.
That brings me back to why I wrote this text. I still don’t know why I got the comment accusing me of writing with ChatGPT. It’s concerning and hurtful, like being accused of witchcraft in medieval times, where the accused were either burned at the stake or stigmatized. If people label my work as AI content, readers will avoid it just because they don’t want to support that.
The reason I started writing here a few weeks ago is that I’m dealing with a lot of personal problems right now, and writing about them helps me. It’s personal, and I love that I can write in full anonymity. These words are my thoughts and express how I feel.
Source of the picture (and only the picture) - AI