“Organic” posts in the age of AI

I tried asking ChatGPT to generate an essay for certain topics that I was intereted in. Sure enough, the result was amazing. In no time, it spun out an impeccable, crystal clear essay with clear outline, highlights and takeaways. All with no grammar errors or misspellings (the issues I suffer being a non-native English speaker, ugh).

Recently I noticed on LinkedIn quite a few people started writing a lot of quality content. Amongst them were people I remember who never posted anything on LinkedIn before. Many of them are non-native English speakers like me. But suddenly they became so prolific, can’t stop posting lengthy essays, as if they’re experiencing the opposit of the Writer’s Block.

Anyway I can’t say for certain that they’re using AI for their LinkedIn posts since I have no evidence. It could be just a coincidence. Anyway good for them.

Aside from these LinkedIn posts, I noticed there’s a lot of AI-generated slop posts across the internet these days. They’re bland, templatized, and have no personality. Just like the dystopian future of everyone looking the same in their dismal outfit and sauntering like zombies in the Macintosh commercial “1984”.

I see this as an opportunity for “organic” essays. Like those organic fruits that are a bit smaller and even bug-bitten sometimes, but there’s no doubt that they’re healthier and high-quality compared to non-organic ones.

My writings are organic. Having always been worried about my grammar mistakes, I thought about running the drafts of my posts with ChatGPT, but I decided not to do it because first I didn’t want to train AI with my hard-earned outcome of independent thinking and secondly I don’t want my essay to be sterillized without any personality.

Also I think it’d be a great opportunity for my imperfect essays to stand out. Like the famous ad slogan “When the world zigs, zag.”, In the sea of bland slop essays, mine will be different then those.

Think different. Write different!