I'm So Tempted, Frustrated, and Disgusted with AI

I am not a marketing guru. I don't know much about SEO or putting together a marketing plan. I basically never go on social media (because all it does is make me wish I could easily hang out with all my old friends). I'm not interested in spending time crafting posts and sharing images and getting likes and followers and generating interest in products. So having an AI agent help me in these processes for which I am not an expert seemed extremely appealing. Full disclosure: I would like to somehow make money off of my songs and writings. So I hopped on board. I said to myself, "Let's try this thing and see where it goes."

Wix has this AI agent built into it and I'm trying it. It shows me how I can optimize my website and gives me marketing jargon based on what I've already created on the website. It looks ok. It asks me to give it a prompt about a blog post I would like to write. I tell it, "I'm working on a new collection of poems from an old notebook I used between 2012 and 2016. I'm about to release a new song / poem thing in the next month or so called 'Bathing in Sand.' The basic process is that I start with the original poem I wrote. I rewrite it and make it better. Then I write a rebuttal poem to the original that is meant to verify my humanity. The only way I can win as a writer is to make something that is undeniably human. So that's the name of the collection, 'Human Verification Required.'"

The AI agent writes this nice long piece that's full of clever but cliche phrases that makes me want to throw up a little. It's read my whole website and all my blogs, so it has a rough idea of what I sound like as a writer who is frequently writing about himself (for some reason), and it makes me wonder, "Do I sound this cliche when I write?" Is the AI's impression of me accurate? I realize I could never post what the AI has written, but maybe it's an ok starting point? I spend two or three hours making the post sound like what I think is the real me. I add a photo from my notebook. I explain my self-critical nature regarding the original poem. I'm one paragraph away from a post I think is pretty good. I hover over the save button and see it says "autosave is on." I click away for a moment on another tab and my post has REVERTED BACK TO THE AI SLOP! I look at the post history and there's only the AI's version. The picture from my notebook is gone!

I start to think I am a crazy person. How did I lose all of this work that has my original voice in it? Maybe it's in another tab? I check and double check every tab and window. I just keep sighing many expletives and double checking every tab to no avail. Then I wonder, what if the AI agent stole my writing? What if it's copying all my work over to a mirror site, monetizing it, and keeping all the profit for itself! What if the AI is booking a beach vacation off of all my hard work!

It's been a long day. I am working on new stuff. I thought it was going to be out this week, but Spotify is having a delivery error for my song. I would've told you about it and the whole process in the most beautiful way, but this AI agent stole my stuff or I forgot to click save. I'll tell you more about Bathing in Sand tomorrow.