As inspired by Damola Morenikeji, this page is an explanation of my usage of generative AI on this website.
I do not use AI to generate content
I have experimented with it, but it’s inauthentic and against my values. I’m ethically opposed to AI slop and do not want to contribute to the problem.
At any rate, the point of this website is to express myself. I’m not trying to artificially attract visitors to my site in order to make ad money - I have no ads. Passing off synthetic content as my own would be entirely worthless.
I sometimes use it to find information
I have found it useful for research:
- Tip-of-my-tongue problems, like when I can’t remember a specific word or phrase
- Quickly checking code syntax
- Figuring out how to do a specific action in Adobe tools when I know what I want but I don’t know the Adobe name for that process
- Comparing two services or tools side by side
But it can hallucinate. For instance, I’ve had issues with ChatGPT 4:
- It wants to please me; it tells me languages and tools support the functionality that I want, even when they don’t
- It has invented code syntax for features that don’t exist in that language
- It points to menus in Adobe that simply aren’t there
I will continue to experiment with and evolve my usage of AI
Generative AI is a shifting landscape, and I’m enjoying watching it develop. In my opinion it’s far too early to take a firm stance on it. I’m cautiously curious, and approaching it with open-mindedness and a healthy amount of scepticism. But I’m not going to let it pretend to be me.