alienating myself from gen AI
I went to great lengths to alienate myself from anything generated by AI. First of all, I must say that it's way easier to avoid AI generated pictures than AI generated texts - especially in marketing copywriting, it's almost impossible to avoid it, but now I turned it into a hobby of mine, finding evidences of AI in anything I read.
Anyways, I've been quite successful on this journey, to the point where I keep forgetting that chat gpt still exists. But every now and then, someone in my circle bursts my bubble saying something like "chat gpt said that..." - breaking my heart into a million pieces (yes, I'm dramatic) and reminding me that yes, not only it still exists but people keep using it, in the most stupid and useless ways.
Also, recently, some friends were complaining about this ai generated talking fruit (at least they were complaining about it and not praising it) and I had no idea what they were talking about. I have never seen that before. A few days later I came across this youtube video about these talking fruits and realized I have really, really, alienated myself. And I'm not sure if that's a good thing. I mean, it is a good thing to be critical of AI, sure, but I've been living almost like it doesn't exist and I'm starting to think that's not really healthy. Comfortable? Yes. Healthy? I'm not sure. Should I keep doing it? Probably not. Will I? Well... it's 2026, I'm in my 40s and I still smoke cigarettes.