🤖 Awaiting Humanization

Don't let AI do it. This is a job for you, for me, for ALL of us!

“Awaiting humanization.”

That’s what it shows on the screen.

I’m on my laptop, testing an app that takes AI writing … then adds a more human element to it … so the AI detector apps can’t detect that it’s AI.

Yeah, you read that right: It’s AI to outwit AI that detects AI.

We truly are living in Pandora’s Box.

Pandora looks a little tired. Maybe too much blue screen time?

(I was testing it for my 9-5 job, not this newsletter. That app would have to be really whacked to write like me. A bar too high … for now.)

But while I was examining this app (and then discarding it because most of those AI-detecting apps fail at detecting AI), that phrase kept gnawing at my ears.

Awaiting humanization.

“Gosh, golly, darn it, now I’m doing that thinking thing again!”

Hold On One Second

Isn’t that what we all are doing much of the time?

We are waiting for that which surrounds us to be more like us.

At our core, we want humanization. (And we want humane treatment.) We want machines to be like us. And babies. Sometimes, even animals.

Like dogs who only want to be around more dogs, humans want other humans. But we get lost in the labyrinth of self — turned around in a hall of mirrors of ourselves (yeah, social media, I’m talking about you) — and then we try to create what we turned away from.

You have to focus to find the way out.

What If There Was a Better Way?

Maybe the answer to our current state of disconnection while almost continuously connected is simply to become more human.

Become more human, insist on more humane treatment, and — yes — create more humanity.

And I don’t mean breeding. God no. Those days are over for me and I wouldn’t take them back no matter what.