The Rise of the AI Messiahs

I’ve been writing and reading others online and I realised that there are so many people who sound like messiahs.

They’ve got some ideas, shared it with AI, and they’ve come out with something profound.

They share it online, and people comment and interact.

But it feels odd, like I can’t understand what they are thinking or why they are creating and engaging with what feels like AI slop.

An AI Messiah is a normal person who has arrived at some revelation, usually with the assistance of AI, and then feels compelled to post it online.

AI is a mirror that reflects our most pretentious selves. Because it is trained on other AI Messiahs online.

It is a form of collapse, and cultural collapse.

And social media also rewards content that posts in a Messianic way.

Reflecting on my own writing I’ve realised that I’m like that too.

And this article is itself a version of that!

We have a natural tendency to write in hyperbole or inflate my writing to make it seem more grand and profound, because it has to be profound right?

It’s embarrassing because when you grow you look back on your previous work and it feels cringey.

Why is that? Why do I write like this.

I asked claude, and I explored great writers like George Orwell.

He is one of the best writers I’ve ever read and studied, especially Politics and the English Language.

Because real writing is scary, it needs courage. It’s specific, it’s vulnerable.

You feel like you’re taking a risk, and when you publish it you feel that vulnerability.

I’ve created some content before and it’s got hundreds of thousands or millions of views, and I always have this feeling before posting that it will have a big reach and be seen.

I have this sense of excitement to check it later.

I’ve realised that you need to write in private first, without trying to be profound, and most of it is crap. You can delete it. Or you can publish it if you want.

Some of it will be good enough to publish.

And then you can see how it goes and learn from it. As you do it more you can learn and improve.

The best writing should be written 100% by yourself.

It is exploratory.

You don’t know where it will go.

What is the opposite of an AI Messianic post?
- Specific
- Contradictory
- Original new data
- Ugly
- Authentic

You could call them:
- The witness
- The heretic to the global average
- The amateur - from the latin - one who loves

There is something sacred about writing, because it is thought.

Writing is telepathy.

That’s why I love it.

And I also feel like the way humans write and the way AI writes is similar.

As I am writing I don’t know what I’m going to say next.

I don’t know where it comes from, but it’s almost like a prediction.

So maybe there is something about intelligence that is the same with AI and human intelligence.

But I don’t have an answer or a grand conclusion.

This writing is an exploration.

And that’s what the best writing should be.