Fear of AI and creativity: What will happen to human creativity

Fear of AI

I know this whole AI thing and the fear around it is unsettling many people. There are now plenty of YouTube channels promoting that fear, even panic, framing AI as a human-made enemy. And many of these videos are getting massive views.

Sometimes it makes me wonder: do humans unconsciously enjoy feeling panicked? Do we actually seek fear? Well, that’s a different story 🫤

Friend or enemy?

I don’t know if all this negativity and fear-spreading is reasonable. But I do know I don’t like the direction things are going with AI. I can’t speak for everyone, but personally, I feel like AI is slowly taking away the basic creative drive of humans.

For example, every time I want to write a blog on my website, a window pops up suggesting AI write it for me! 🤨

Doesn’t that sound unnatural? 😐 How does AI even dare suggest writing on my behalf? If I don’t have time to write my own blog, why should I bother at all? How can AI describe what I went through during my day better than I can?

At the beginning, I used AI to delegate tasks and save time. It corrected my texts, and I accepted everything without question. It made suggestions, and I appreciated them. It gave me information, and I treated it as absolute truth.

How do I use it now?

Lately, I’ve started questioning all of it. Part of this comes from the fear those videos inject, but part of it comes from my own intuition. And I’ve seen some proof of it:

I began closely reviewing AI’s edits and realized that sometimes it completely distorts my original ideas. It takes my thoughts somewhere I never intended them to go, all under the label of “creativity.” Yes, sometimes the suggestions are useful. But other times, they make me pause and think “wait a minute!”

So I’ve reduced how much I rely on AI. More precisely, I no longer trust its judgment, suggestions, or corrections 100%.

If it edits my text, I only keep what feels relevant. I reject the kind of “perfection” that doesn’t sound like me. I accept only small improvements in flow. Most importantly, I stay in control. That way, I can learn from it and improve my writing instead of handing over full responsibility.

I also don’t let it know my personality. I don’t ask it my deepest questions or share private concerns expecting real answers. I used to do that, even believed the answers were somehow “true.” Well, that’s not the case anymore.

I’d rather have imperfect writing that sounds like me. I’d rather live with unanswered questions than accept artificial certainty. I’d rather let incomplete answers emerge naturally over time.

On a side note: have you seen those imperfect handmade mugs with uneven edges? I love them, and I’m okay if my writing looks like that 😊 because that’s me, at least until my English sounds fully native.

This perspective might change as we continue coexisting with AI. But for now, this is where I stand.

Gab asked me what should be as AI takes over

Recently, my partner, Gab, asked me what we should do as AI takes over. I don’t have a clear answer. I don’t know what that future will actually look like. But I intuitively know that we need to be in our best mental and physical shape when that happens.

That’s what gives us clarity, the ability to choose for ourselves instead of blindly accepting what’s presented as “reality.” I mean I think that most of the time, the options are way wider than what we’re shown.

Rejecting addiction of all kinds

To do so, I have started slowly to reject any addiction to any addictive stuff, from coffee, to sugar, to scrolling videos in social media 😶‍🌫️ (thanks Godm there are growing in numbers 😑 , back then it was only instagram feed, now we have in youtube shorts and facebook slops too), following the news in an addictive manner, over eating, safety seeking, seeking certainty).

To move in that direction, I’ve started slowly rejecting different forms of addiction:

• coffee

• Sugar

• overeating

• The indeed for being liked or loved

• endless social media scrolling (thank god, they are growing in number 😑 Instagram, YouTube Shorts, Facebook…)

• compulsive news consumption

• constant need for safety

• the obsession with certainty

I think that’s a good starting point. I don’t know where exactly it leads us, but I know that building mental discipline and reducing dependency helps me regain control over my thoughts and It makes me less easy to manipulate.

The rest is out of my control anyway ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Funny enough, the tune of “Incomplete” by the Backstreet Boys is now playing in my head 🙂‍↔️

Addiction feels good

Let me confess: It is hard to resist over-eating Vietnamese food and coffee 🫥 looking at those pastries and staying self-controlled requires a real mental strength 😀

So I compromise a little: I still enjoy them, just in smaller, controlled amounts 😁 But, there’s a real joy in that control. I feel a bit like a hero 🥹

I hope one day, the joy of self-control will outweigh the joy of a big pastry and a large coffee 🙂‍↕️ until then I will celebrate my small victories 🫡

Cheers