What is the major problem of AI? Well, life is full of metaphors. Who would have thought that there\u2019s a connection between nutrition and AI? I was listening to a podcast about healthy eating when, suddenly, I had an aha moment. The speaker didn\u2019t say anything new. He simply repeated what we\u2019ve heard time and time again \u2014 avoid processed, fortified, and enriched foods and opt for whole foods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Processed foods are foods that have been altered from their natural state one way or another. Simply put, people have learned to break food down into its constituent elements and \u201creassemble\u201d it like a puzzle. The nutritionist\u2019s message was simple \u2014 you can\u2019t consistently put artificial food in your stomach and expect to be healthy. When food has been tampered with it\u2019s not real food. It creates satiety but doesn\u2019t nourish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then, a thought struck me like a ten-ton truck: how ironic that we have spent centuries developing technologies to break down nature into its constituent elements only to find out that it kills us in the end. Now, we are increasingly opting for \u201cwhole foods.\u201d Food companies advertise their produce as \u201call-natural,\u201d \u201cnon-GMO,\u201d \u201cpasture-raised,\u201d \u201corganic\u201d \u2014 to assure customers they aren\u2019t consuming anything \u201csynthetic.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Suddenly, humanity realized that altering nature is not in our best interests. Nature is too mysterious to be tampered with. It is whole.<\/a> And the Whole, as Aristotle put it, is always more than the sum of its parts. Once broken, it cannot be reassembled. It doesn\u2019t nourish. Broken foods belie the holistic nature of reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n As I hopped off this interesting train of thought, I checked my email, and realized God wasn\u2019t through with me. The fourth client in a row wrapped up their job offer with an adage: \u201cNever-ever-ever use AI in your writing. If we detect any sign of AI \u2014 and we will \u2014 your work will be rejected.\u201d Then, they explained almost apologetically:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cPlease understand that our clients DO NOT want to see AI-generated content on their websites.<\/a> They will reject us if we send them anything that smells like AI. All AI can do is recreate a low-level, tier-1 grammar and syntax that no one is interested in reading. Even if you don\u2019t use AI but sound like AI, we are sorry, but your work won\u2019t be accepted.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n I couldn\u2019t help but smile. We have spent decades learning how to break language down into its constituent elements and reassemble it like a puzzle only to realize that we don\u2019t want to read it. It doesn\u2019t nourish. It looks like language, but it isn\u2019t. It\u2019s processed language. The more we consume it, the more \u201cmalnourished\u201d we are.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n What is the major problem with AI? Soon, we will see companies advertising their language-related products as \u201call-human,\u201d \u201cnon-AI,\u201d \u201ccreated by real, flesh-and-blood writers,\u201d \u201cauthentic, natural text,\u201d \u201corganically written, \u201clanguage with a touch of human imperfection,\u201d etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s coming. It\u2019s already here. The more we are fed the artificial, the more we crave the real.\u00a0We are starting to wake up.<\/a>\u00a0At least, some of us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Let’s create something together! <\/p>\n\n\n\n