I am concerned both how AI can disrupt creatives as well, Emily. I have some thoughts about that for another post I’m pondering.

As for myself, I’ve started using AI a bit to do things like review my post after I’ve written it to provide suggestions. I sometimes make small tweaks as a result: about 30% of the time I find the AI’s ‘feedback’ to be useful, and WordPress Jetpack gives a few queries each month for ‘free’. Mostly it is a technical curiosity tome: I’m not yet at the stage that I’d pay for it, though.

As for creating content from the ground up, I’m really not comfortable with that. I’ll experiment with it because it is fascinating to see what something like ChatGPT can produce. But the big corporations have invested such huge sums into AI that it is imperative for them that the shove it down our throats. They have to find a way for AI to make money.

And that drive could definitely cause some serious harm in the near future. Creative work is already often tenuously capable of providing a living, and seeing AI take over some of that role would be a sad thing indeed.