Recently I have found it difficult to maintain my writing pace of +20 years. There are 3,700 blog posts published here but few in the last year. The fact that large language models (LLM) have scraped my website and continue to do so has had me feeling less motivated to share my thoughts. But maybe the best act of rebellion against AI slop is to keep writing and not let the silicon valley bastards grind me down.
If you set aside the more apocalyptic scenarios and assume that AI will continue to advance – perhaps at a slower pace than in the recent past – it’s quite possible that thoughtful, original, human-generated writing will become even more valuable.
Put another way: The work of writers, journalists and intellectuals will not become superfluous simply because much of the web is no longer written by humans.—Francesco Agnellini
Chris Corrigan has been a continuing source of inspiration here since 2006. Chris tells us — “So write. Write every day and share it, mistakes and all, so we can find each other in this increasingly tangled thicket of artifice and grift.” So I am going to slowly get back on this horse and the discipline of writing. Back in May 2004 I wrote 58 posts. I doubt I will get back to that pace but I can try and find a new rhythm.
Is anything keeping you from learning out loud through the written medium?
Welcome back!