I don’t use AI for any creative now

I don’t use AI for any creative endeavour any more. I’m not a hater, it just doesn’t work for me in that space these days. YMMV.

However, it is perfect for work. 

The AI’s distillation of the Internet into a smooth, even, flavourless slop maps exactly to the corporate space where conformity and uniformity are valued.

AI speaks fluent Corporate. You can give it your notes and say “turn this into a report/ a JIRA issue/ a Teams message and it will convert your input to a pitch-perfect ‘safe for work’ output.

I can think my own thoughts and AI will filter them out leaving only the work. It amuses me to call a technology or a device a c**t in my notes and watch that get sanitised into a ‘challenge’.

I don’t wear a suit. Instead, I dress every interaction with AI.

That’s what I want people to see of me. AI helps me present as my chosen work self: competent, measured, thorough. 

I need AI because increasingly I am not my work. Even though I find it interesting, it’s something I do for the money. I’m good at it and being good at it is what I can sell in late stage capitalism where humans are reduced to the value they can create within the rules of the game.

As I write this, Google’s Gemini keeps highlighting grammar errors. Those aren’t errors, that is my voice. It doesn’t sound like anyone else’s and that’s the entire point.

The alive part of me, the creative part, the part that seeks ideas, laughter, poetry, movement, connection doesn’t need AI’s help.

AI can’t help me find edges, random associations, or originality.

And that's what I'm looking for these days.