Well, okay. let’s just get straight to the confession shall we? No dilly dallying, as I often say to my four year old during bedtime routines.

I have used ChatGPT to write my blog posts in the past.

There, it’s out. I’ve confessed. I think it’s pretty obvious which posts were enhanced by ChatGPT. I say enhanced, because all the thoughts and opinions and ideas were mine, but basically, what I would do is write out stream of thought and then feed it to ChatGPT and say “make it into a nice little package for my blog” and it would spit out a blog post for me based on the thoughts I had given it.

But, while the posts felt clean and legible and they were my thoughts, it still didn’t really sound like me. No matter how hard I tried to get ChatGPT to use “my tone of voice” it still came out as ChatGPT-fied. And I don’t know if it’s because I’ve finally gotten back into the habit of daily morning pages, and recognizing my own voice again, or if it’s because I’ve basically been stuck in bed for the past week and contemplated all of life (as one does when everything feels like it’s crashing in on you), but I realized…it’s not all that serious. Like honestly.

I was using chatGPT for shipping blog posts fast. I was taking this too seriously. You keep reading things like “if you want to grow your network and reach you have to be posting x times a week” and so on. I wanted people to read it and think I sounded intelligent or knew how to write well. But really, who cares? Life is not that serious. I’d rather just sound like myself. And if you like that, great! If you don’t, that’s also fine.

I know I am not an S-class writer. I know I am not. But I also won’t ever get any better if I just let ChatGPT do all the work. I’d rather sound like me, like this weird rambly person who is just putting it all out there, than a clean robotic Stepford wife version of me. I want to have fun. So, this is it. My blog posts will, from now on, be …. this. This is it. Oh, and I’m bringing back the gifs. If you were around back in the day when I used to send weekly newsletters, I always included ONE gif. And if you know me, you know I like gifs.

PS: No shade to ChatGPT. I still use it on the daily, and it has fed me and my family really well with some amazing recipes. Thanks!

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