Calvin and Hobbs Sunday comics

Hello everyone. You maybe wondering why I started off this way?

I was thinking that we are all in one form another are being fed maggots. It really wasn’t maggots. It was rice soup, but you get what I am saying, I hope.

We, as a society, are always changing and evolving.  Listening to a YouTuber, podcaster, on my way to work. She was talking about how AI is taking over the way we write.  And she is not the first to state this, but what I found fascinating is that she is looking for writing to have some kind of typos in it. Not to criticize it but just to see the human element.

The human element. We pride ourselves on always advancing our knowledge and finding new ways of doing things.  There’s nothing wrong with that. But who is the gatekeeper or the person who’s going to say, “slow it down? You’re going too fast,” and our society is going to be in trouble because we don’t know when to say when or when to take a breath.

I am the owner of a short story and poetry magazine.  A couple of the writers were complaining, “Oh, I see a typo. I need to fix it.” You as the writer or the human, if you want to fix your writing. So be it. Fix your writing.

That is your choice, and we are perfectionists with what we put out. But what about those readers who likes to see mistakes and imperfections. “Oh, this is actually from the writer. This is not something that AI fixed or changed.”

We all need to take a breath because we’re going too fast. Moving like they say in the science fiction hemisphere, at the speed of light, if not faster.  In this world of Cars that do not need a driver now or automatic correction to words that you’ve never seen or did not intend to be on the page makes you wonder, why are we doing this to ourselves?

As children, we like to invent and create. As adults, we like to invent and create. But as an adult, is it always fun to invent and create when it’s at the detriment of us losing our own style and nuances in the way we write and convey what we think? Not anti AI, just anti losing who we are.

This is just me and my thoughts.