The existence of writing services under the name of “AI Humanizer”, promising to artificially make the tone of your texts more authentic, underscores a ludicrous and brutal era of human suppression.
I’ve been writing since I was six years old. My writing has changed profoundly between then and now, 46 years later. But also between last month and now.
It has of course changed with age, and it has changed with major and minor life events, teachers, books, and heartbreak. Children, illness, deep sorrow and butterflies of excitement. It has changed with friendships beginning and ending, with knowing people from different countries and cultures. It has changed with falling in and out of love for certain words. With learning how different people learn. Seeing what they take to heart and understand. With listening to people pushed to the edge of society. To the edge of their capacity. With realizations of how much more there is to discover. My writing has changed with me. With living. Every second of every day.
And my writing changes when I write. I grow and evolve with every painstaking struggle to reach a period and decide if the words were enough. If they need to say more. If they need another rhythm and beat to reach inside you, beloved reader. Writing transforms me.
This should. Of course. Be obvious.
Using AI to express a “personal version of myself”, to make writing “unmistakably sound like me”, would be throwing the essence of my being into a void. Ceasing all growth.
Using AI to write would mean I am no longer of value, my human emotions insignificant, and what I sense and feel when looking into the eyes of friends and strangers is no longer of any consequence.
Suggesting that I use AI to write is telling me to hide myself from view. From existence. You are saying I never mattered. That the experiences I had were not worthy of shaping who I am. That being me was a mistake. A computer can be me. A better me.
Breathe in.
This. The voice you are reading now. Feel the pace of my pulse.
The provoked prose
angrily puttering
across the page.
Using “AI” to write this would kill me.
Killing more written voices is the objective.
Breathe out.
References
This post was triggered by the many available "AI Humanizers" which you may or may not be familiar with. As I do not wish to link to them I've provided this screenshot of Google search results for the term "AI Humanizer".
For those not in the know, the point of these services is to first use generative AI to produce a text and then run that text through a "humanizer", in the hope that the text will bypass AI detectors used by teachers or clients. The AI detectors are of course in themselves a scam.
It's layer upon layer of abuse.
