I Miss Writing in My Voice — My Take On AI

One of the many benefits I’ve enjoyed in the past few months of using AI tools is simply putting in this prompt ‘help me write this better’ ‘help me add more to this article’ and the platform will do what it does best which is providing me with a very well written and expanded article which i sometimes will review and sometimes just post like that depending on the day and how I feel.

Overtime I’ve kept doing it and I still doing it today but recently I realized that my writing has stopped to sound like me. Yes, it’s been well written and captures so much great English. But Nifemi is missing in it. The emotions, the storytelling and the inconsistent in language that makes my writing original is missing. When I write, I bring all of me into it which can means that I write how I feel and how I speak so if I’m writing angry I want you to know I’m angry but using the tools has taken that from me. Yes, I know that they’re prompts to keep that going but I just really want to keep writing like me. This is not a shade on AI. It’s just what I feel.

So, moving forward, I want to find a balance. I want to continue leveraging AI tools for their efficiency and support, but I also want to reclaim my voice in my writing. I want to infuse my content with the passion, personality, and authenticity that make it uniquely mine.

This isn’t a critique of AI; it’s simply a realization of what I value most in my writing — myself. (This last line was written by chatgpt)

Selah.