Confessions of a Self-Confessed Hardcore Devotee of Creation (or why I will not use ChatGPT)

Conversational AI tools like ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot are extremely useful for offering synopses based on content that is already out there. In that way they help us access the internet-logged information of the past (right up until the millisecond before this moment, which is pretty impressive).

​As someone who spent two decades in science, I know the great value of having access to what is known already.

BUT, as conversational AI insidiously works its way into our lives, do we risk letting our Creation muscles atrophy? 

The Latin root of the word create means “to bring into being”, and so creation is an act of birthing, of something arriving that is brand new, never seen or known before, into this present moment. It is what great artists and innovators throughout history have said they tap into – “flow” -  when words, visions, ideas, music, inventions etc just arrive seemingly out of nowhere and pour through them.

Although it might do creative things, Conversational AI is not a creator. It does not create, it makes. Making is act of skill. Creating is an act of spirit. Both are important, but may we know the difference!

​You and I are creators. We are channels for things that are brand new to pour through via acts of Creation, and that isn’t going to happen if I let AI write the words for me as it browses through the past. Even when I feed it what I want to know, what I feed it is based only on what I already know. True "not knowing" means we don’t even know the question to ask!

It might happen when I sit down in front of a blank page and open myself up to the vast knowing field (BTW that network of information spans the entire universe) and let something arrive to and flow through me.

It can be VERY hard to get out my thinking mind, and often a lot of shite comes through (perhaps in your opinion that includes this article) but sometimes something really great and totally unexpected comes. Maybe it doesn’t change THE world, but it often changes MY world (and in healing sessions, my clients’ worlds too).

Finally…much of the great knowing is coming from the great knowers of the world, who are not logging what they know on the internet! A good majority of the people of the planet who are still living in dynamic engagement with the knowing field of the earth and with the more-than-human elements are doing so in remote locations…or atleast in the absence of a daily blog. ChatGPT only has access to what is on the internet, and as much as we have come to bow to the Google God, the internet is very much an incomplete picture of the knowledge of many of those who are in contact with the great intelligence streaming through them (not google). We get access to this kind of knowing through our shared collective conscience, our shared knowing field...which we access by, yep you guessed it, turning up BLANK. 

I am probably a bit hardcore with this. I practice creating when I could likely get away with making (and yes perhaps that would free me up to create more “important” things). I am sure there is plenty of website content or silly poems or whatever that I could hand over to conversational AI to make for me. But I don’t. To me, it feels like there is just too much at risk. 

And I’ve always been this way. As a teenager I walked the 30 minutes to school every day as my mother and sister drove past me in the car for a good reason. I’m more about the journey than the destination…who knows what magic might be discovered as I slowly blunder my way along!?

But that’s just me. A hardcore devotee of Creation.

AI may or may not take over our future. But conversational AI could keep us stuck in the past.