Keep Your Voice

Keep your voice (this text is 100% human generated)

After a while you will be able to recognize the slop. Open Facebook, open LinkedIn, open an Email newsletter. You will find the same patterns, the same bullet points, the same gushing language. There are (of course) multiple problems with that.

Let me start with a non-obvious one. I find that my writing changes based on the slop I’ve been fed. I write this post without a plan, without a structure and without AI support. And still I can feel that I gravitate towards the same slop-style of writing that I’ve been exposed to over the last year or so. The thought alone is horrible. We are loosing our voices — not only because we use AI to (help us) write, but because we are exposed to so much of the blandness that AI writing is.

And that leads to the second problem: When we collectively have lost our voice, why should we even bother reading what others „write"? There is a place for AI generated writing — and I’m the last person that would dispute that. But AI has no place in the communication that comes from us (our hearts, if you will) that is targeted towards other humans.

I beg you, keep your voice. Write yourself. I’d rather read a non-perfect text (with the „normal" amount of errors and typos) than the main-streamed AI non-differentiated, non-creative writing that we are exposed to.

Our voices and the stories we tell each other are a sign of our fellow humanity. Don’t let the machines take that away from you.

Originally posted on LinkedIn.