Argh. 🤣🤔

I read this post by David Hopkins and it resonated with me wholeheartedly.

Until I read the bottom line that it was written by ChatGPT. 😳

Geez. It was good. It pulled at me heart strings because it resonated with my own experiences with blog writing!

My lesson?

Despite the sentiment and similar experiences of what was mentioned in this post, my heart just dropped when I saw it was written by AI.

So I thought, in future, rather than copy and paste entire wads of text that I read online into AI detectors like Copy Leaks and realise just how much of what is written online would be by bots) that I should learn a lesson from this.

When I write, I must:

• Continue to add my own quirky mannerisms to my writing. (Don’t write like a bot instead write distinctly “Helen” which means with that wry, cynical and quirky manner)***

• Add in stories, examples, links to previous writing, cases, anecdotes.
• Include photos, my own diagrams, artworks, sketches into my work
• Include a disclaimer that ChatGPT posts will be recognised as such.
• Have a disclaimer on my website about my work on my website is my own; not a bot’s (unless otherwise indicated)
• Considering creating some kind of badge like a “bot free”
• Not sharing others posts written by bots (except for this one because I trust the great work of David Hopkins and followed his work for many years and the entirety of his website is where he works out loud and has been sharing knowledge for years.)
• If professional people in my network whom I have been following for years, start to share content that is only written by ChatGPT (without saying it js) I’ll unfollow them.

*** I’d hope that ChatGPT doesn’t know how to do this as I’m not famous enough. But then again, what do I know? Maybe the safest position is NEVER TO WRITE OR SHARE ANYTHING ONLINE ANYMORE. Sigh. I don’t like how this is going at all.