The New Blog Renaissance is just around the corner. Blogging is on the cusp of a revival.
With the slow monster emergence of AI and Chat GPT (I find the panic enormously entertaining to be honest) – there is a great hush in the world of content creators. We are holding our breath waiting to see what is going to happen next.
Many of the writers, content creators, ghost writers, social media strategists, and influencers that rely on Social Media in all its many manifestations are deeply worried that the AI army is going to render them useless.
Personally I believe that writers and content creators – (though I prefer to be called a writer rather than a creator of content), will be scrambling to start blogs or sites that allow them to showcase exactly their own work, prove provenance and control their outcomes. To have control over their work.
So us old bloggers are WAY ahead of this particular game.
No-one can boot us off our own platforms.
We can prove that we have been around and writing exactly this way for years and indeed prove that we are human and that the words you are reading are not the text of a clever AI program.
Because that will be a thing soon. We will want to know who is doing the writing. We are already second guessing the provenance of an opinion. At the behest of an individual AI can write and publish an opinion piece that will further influence the opinions of the people around us. This is a thing.
Which is why I am never going to clean up my grammar. Or my short imperfect sentence structures. Perfect text will be a dead giveaway! So I am fine! No-one will think I am a bot!
Have a wonderful day!
Prove you are not a chat bot – what do you think – leave me a comment in the Lounge of Comments!
(Oh my God – imagine if there were an AI chat bot that wandered about, leaving comments and making friends!!!). No. Not a Thing. Yet.
Celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
61 responses to “The Survival of the Bloggest”
Nicely said. I get weary of people suggesting solutions or ideas from some YouTube poster that may or may not have had success. In many ways we show the lived experience, and utter failures which are just as important as prettified “like bait”. I’m getting likes now from bots. It’s a little unnerving TBH. Usually when I have drafts in queue. Trying to ignore them and carry on. Blogging is more a personal record of what we’ve done anyway.
Chatbots will never have chickenpoo on their trousers, straw in their hair, nor the righteous sweaty stink after a hard day’s work. 😆
Oh yes! So much of it is about failures too! They don’t add that to a carousel!! It is all about Pinterest ready.
Not us!
Do you mean that your drafts are getting Likes? before you even publish them?
There’s a world of difference between transmission of information and the slow development of relationships over time. I began my blog in 2008, and one of the first decisions I made was to eliminate a ‘like’ button. I wanted comments, not likes, and if I had to make do with two or three comments per post, that was perfectly fine with me. I never used social media for any purpose, including publicizing my blog, but let it grow organically — always the best! Today, I’ve met and socialized with people I’ve come to know through my blog; we exchange Christmas cards, and celebrate birthdays. Now and then, I go out and about photographing with blog friends. There’s no AI in the world that can equal that.
Your blog is delightful.I am actually quite looking forward to the challenge of taking my site to the next level – though the blog side will stay its usual slow moving back water self!
I find it interesting that you disallowed Likes. That shows a great conviction of purpose. I love that!
I am a real person and so happy you are back to blogging!
I love real humans!!
Here here to the old bloggers among us!
What an interesting discussion. I would love to sit around a table and talk in person about this stuff. I’ve been blogging for 9 years now, with no ads, just content. I started it because I had been laid off and needed a connection with folks of similar interests. It’s grown into a way to communicate with friends, family, and fellow bloggers from around the world. It’s a community and that’s what I wanted. It has certainly enriched my life.
The sense of community we build on our blogs never ceases to astound me! Especially with a well run blog like yours. It becomes like a second home for our people!
I am a real person and have followed your blog for quite some time, even if commenting only a handful of times. This post reminded me of a quote I read, ” The irony for mankind is that a computer program asks a human to prove that they’re not a robot.” Yep, hmmm …
Yes!!! That is so true!!
I had not thought about it like that! Thank you Jan!!
Hello Celi…I began reading your blog way, way back many years ago when your Homepage was a view of your backyard…probably back in 2006-10….I was retiring from a 40+ yr. of RN nursing work, I think I was about 64…..Now, years later, I’m 79 and still reading your blog. I live in Carlinville, Illinois, south of you. I have followed your world travels, learned a lot about people, learned a lot about food, self sustaining living, farming (I grew up on a farm), animals, must say I just love “BooBoo”. I look forward to following along through your new adventures and say “Thank you” for blogging! I always look forward to reading your blog everyday.
Celi….must add with the many changes in Google and Blogger, my old user name was prabably “Lynney or Lynney62)
We have been through so many changes! Thank you! I’ll remember.
This is such a wonderful comment. Thank you so much and thank you so much for reading my words for so many years. That is so so great!
BooBoo is at my feet – lying on his back with his legs in the air!
LOL! Oh, I love BooBoo!! It’s lovely to follow a blog for a long time. I look forward to many new adventures following along. Thank you, Celi! *give Boo a big pet from me!
I’m with you, Miss C. I think anyone familiar with my stuff would instantly recognise the ‘intellects vast and cool’ (thank you, HG Wells) signature of the AI, since I never use one adjective where three will do. And your prose is equally recognisable for different and similarly distinctive reasons. We ‘elder’ bloggers are forerunners, perhaps, original content creators who have never leaned on filters, Grammarly or farmed content to connect to our readers. Besides, I love to write. Why would I pay a machine to do it for me?
NOT a bot!
NO!!! Awesome!