BaldBrady’s Blog

I am coming back to this blog after a years-long hiatus, with renewed enthusiasm, stoked by a re-reading of one of my all-time favorite books, A Journey Home by Edward Abbey, and by the onslaught of AI rubbish being foisted upon us at every turn.  I am far from anti-AI.  The technology is unfathomable, fun, time-saving and it beats the hell out of feeding Google a series of keywords, then wading through the results.  I am in the midst of a long, drawn-out fight with my medical insurance company.  I use AI to keep track of this battle, my denied and appealed claims, and to write many of the emails, chat messages, and letters (which I suspect are being read and answered by AIs).  It is the only way for me to come close to leveling the playing field.  It has saved me weeks of time, and has enabled me to successfully fight off their worst denials.  Frankly, without AI’s assistance, I would have thrown in the towel on this fight long ago. 

But we cannot let AI take away our creativity.  Content from a human brain, filtered through an AI’s writing, reeks of artificiality, and loses its humanity.  I prefer human writing, Oxford commas and all. I have set myself a policy, subject to future changes, on the use of Artificial Intelligence (sometimes also known as Artificial Stupidity).  Follow this link to read it.  I would love to hear your thoughts via the comment box at the bottom of this page.