During my holiday travels this last season, while waiting for my next flight, I watched a women use chatgpt to write an email, something that is funnily and quite shamefully relatable. I am not going to go on here and say I have completely avoided AI, absolutely is not the case. In fact, if you have seen my past posts on recipes, both the copy and the imagery, AI is ALL OVER IT (if it wasn’t obvious). This past year I approached AI like an employee, a contract worker that I asked to perform a task, reviewed what was produced, requested changes, made my own edits, then approved it: my moral work-around to using this tool. A tool that seems to have touched every pixel across the internet and making what once was the fun wild west of online into a rather dystopian, cyberpunk episode of Black Mirror. And others are feeling this. My feeds across various platforms are starting to show this desire to pull back from the screen because of fakeness, boredom and overall exhaustion. Even Emma Chamberlain, who’s career is based off of the internet, posted a video ironically discussing this vary topic.
Why this blog post? Why these thoughts and deciding to put them to internet paper? Well, going back to my initial intent, not only with this entry, but the birth of this blog site, I am writing this in hopes to bringing the human experience back into the internet, if not for the readers but for myself (which admittedly is probably the only reader haha) . There was a certain charm in the early days of the internet, a new tool to connect us, making the world more accessible. But as the light of technology got brighter, the shadows that came with it in full force, only got bigger and darker. What once was a way for humans to connect through digital creativity, is now a landscape of computer generated content and even malicious intent. Fake pictures, fake videos, fake articles, even fake people. And all this fakeness is leaving a bad taste in one’s mouth.
With that being said, 2026 for me is about bringing back the human to the internet. Typos, weird wording and all. I will strive to post regularly, but if that doesn’t happen, so be it. I was adamant about posting regularly last year, so much so I created the recipe posts very far in advance, letting them go live at a scheduled pace. It became a crutch and I eventually stopped posting all together, relying on my preplanned content. It gave me a peace of mind and even relieved another fear I had: creative theft. How can I fear someone or even something (*cough* AI *cough*) stealing my words and images if that said material was AI? Another reason I succumbed to using AI in my work. At this moment though, I need to remind myself that creativity has always been influenced by creations of the past and I shouldn’t let the fear of my creations being stolen stop me from creating.
Which brings me to the point of this brain dump: I want DECOVII to reflect me, not be something I look back on and wonder, “was this AI or did I write this?”. I am looking forward to working on my writing, being able to look back on my growth and reclaim my overall creative skills without depending on AI. So cheers! Saludo! Cin cin! Here is to being human, not being afraid, working on improvement and enjoying the adventure! Until my next post.
-Dev
*And if it wasn’t obvious, no AI was used in the composition of this piece. If EVER I use AI, I will say so, but truthfully, going forward, I will strive for DECOVII content to be AI-free. A digital place I can test my creative and technological abilities.
