Why I No Longer Use AI For Ideas

I no longer use AI to help me with creative ideas. I share more about this in my most recent instagram post. I believe AI can be a tool but what happens when it becomes all consuming and anxiety inducing? Which is why I am stepping away. Here are my reasons:

1. AI Makes You Doubt Yourself

Here me out. I very much had my own ideas but what tripped me up was – how do I make my work marketable? How do I make sure I’m able to reach people with the ever changing algorithm?

Because I knew the importance of strategy especially in this current internet age. But it just led to a lot of conversations with Chatgpt that made me doubt myself more. I went to chat thinking it could help me with an idea. But in reality all it did was make me think, “are my ideas ever good?”

2. It Stiffles Your Orginality

Once AI makes you doubt yourself, you begin to believe that it must know more than you do.

But in reality, AI simply just takes everybody’s old ideas on the internet and regurgitate it to you. So it’s technically not new ideas. It’s just copycatted and presented as new.

AI will always tell you your ideas aren’t good enough because they aren’t familiar with what you’re creating. But where is the creativity in that? Where is the art in that? Unfortunately, a lot of social media these days is everybody copying everybody. Instead of the original design where people created out of originality and for fun. Which made me lose myself but I want to get back to that place of creativity. Which is why I have chosen to no longer use AI

3. It Leads To Burnout

As much as I enjoy video making, I was tired. Tired of texting Chatgpt asking if my caption was okay. Am I saying the right things.. for the algorithm? Do I need to change this photo..for the algorithm? Which led to an obsession of checking on analytics. Which led to dissapointment when something I thought I created well & “did all the right things” led to very minimal growth.

Then I would see how others did things and felt like dang, maybe I need to do things more like this. Before I knew it I accidentally got sucked into the social media spiral.

Then was headed down a slippery slope of burnout although I just began in May/June.

So Where Am I At Now?

I am free. I stopped looking at my analytics. Stopped asking Chat GPT about it’s opinions. I have completely changed my editing style to be exactly what I want it to be – storytelling with a cinematic lens. My lesson 19 of “27 creative lessons by 27” is the start of that.

I’ve changed my bio to “Making short films on active artful living”. I no longer look at analytics because it was never helpful for me. It just made me more frustrated.

And most importantly, my ideas flow from my head AND I validate my own ideas without chat gpt. I no longer use AI to tell me “what I should do”. Nah the only thing I should do is to create regardless and to create freely.

I believe that my ideas are good enough, creative enough with or without an algorithm’s or AI’s opinion