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The Things Hive Taught Me That Doesn't Quite Translate Anywhere

Mac@macchiata (81)3h

On Hive, I learned to value the process behind people's writing and their voice. Originality above all else.

Unfortunately, that isn't valued in the current environment I am in. Picture this, in a society and environment focusing on survival, most of the people expect speed to get the job done. They added dash of "what looks good" on paper to increase the fake value of something/someone. Whether that person understand it or not, they do not care. Most people won't audit/attempt to poke at where they get the idea from. In such a world, it is impossible not to get help from any tools. You can but you either get left behind or make nothing at all.

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Now, enter AI in the picture.

When I was starting to get into the Indonesian market, I am surprised people use it to draft ideas, generate ideas, and write. Those are considered accepted and my friends actually make a living doing it that way. I was stunned and question, am I the stupid one or do I have such unrealistic standard and too autistic?

While since 2017, I've been keeping my writing raw and I research everything manually, I think through before I draft/write something. The train of my thoughts can be jumbled at times and especially in a reflection post like this. AI would rate my writing piss-poor for its incoherency and the grammatical mistakes its made. But I am proud of it ( you can argue otherwise).

Do that long enough and especially during one's formative years, it's a habit to do so. To expect originality, process, and quality. Apparently, those are something I need to unlearn in my current industry where I am allowed to use any tools I can in the world to work on a project. They do not care if it's AI, human, or something in between. What people care is the polished product behind it and the cosmetics of it. Even on sites like Linkedin, everyone is writing AI content, style, and nobody question it all.

I actually questioned it a long time ago. I thought that a writing piece have to be original, like it really comes from our brain. But you can see a lot of these influencers get rich of paraphrasing articles, news, and get rewarded for it over web2 and unfortunately, I am back to that kind of world and has to adhere to the standard there (sucks to be me) but hey, one's got to do things to survive so I can afford writing my hearts out over here 😄 without having to censor my thoughts and my writings.

So, nowadays I am still re-learning to live in the environment I am especially since early of this year. It takes quite a while due to the stuff and standard I learn here could not be translated to the world I currently in. The mismatch between here and there are day and night.

And this is where I choose to keep my 100% personality and voice. A place where a human journey has a value.

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𝘊𝘦𝘮𝘺 (𝘰𝘳 𝘔𝘢𝘤) 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘵, 𝘤𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘶𝘳, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘵 𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘣𝘢𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘤𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘴𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘬. 𝘏𝘦𝘳 𝘣𝘭𝘰𝘨 𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘶𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢 𝘴𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯: 𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘺 𝘪𝘵 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴? 𝘠𝘰𝘶'𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘯 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘷𝘦𝘭, 𝘨𝘦𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘺, 𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴, 𝘤𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘦, 𝘵𝘦𝘤𝘩𝘯𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘰𝘣𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘮𝘰𝘴𝘵 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘭𝘬 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘵. 𝘚𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘸𝘪𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘭𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘴. 𝘍𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘰𝘸 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘯 𝘏𝘪𝘷𝘦, 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘣 𝘢 𝘤𝘶𝘱 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘰𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘦𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺.

Comments · 2

  • @adamada(74)· 1h

    I used to have this problem. I learned my personal fix is whether what I do will align with my own values and how much I'm willing to let go.

    I like originality, own strength used to build something and etc. That's the appeal. The thing that you can be proud to call your own. That's ideals talking.

    But originality doesn't necessarily sell or get you results you want. There are outliers. Stories that inspire you to be creative despite the mainstream being like the climate you describe. But your story may not be an outlier and that could be the reality.

    So you look at others and figure out they're not really creating much value but rehearsing the same lines sold under different packaging as content. But it sells. It gets results, and it gets repeated because there are tangible results and an existing market that caters to those results.

    Your creativity may be good on paper but it doesn't get to put food on the table. A morbid optimism is if you dedicate your life around it and become stubborn, you'll be famous but awarded post humous like the old masters and their works. No recognition until dead.

    Following through my ideals in making content gives me a sense of integrity but it doesn't reward me the way I want. It is in conflict with how everything else is rewarded. So I negotiate. I can excuse a little bit of this and that but never the whole. You're still you behind the mask of what the market wants until you can afford to be you when you finally become unchained the basic needs to survive.

    I am a physician but that's my job. My current calling is something related to the field of arts but I don't have the financial security to engage in it at the moment. So when I can get my career stable, I'll wear the artist hat more often and become unchained. And this will likely be my guiding principle in writing as a profession (if I ever do become a writer), I write for the market I cater to because that's what puts food on the table, but it would still be a side quest.

    For those that can't adapt to the times, they will get buried and names forgotten along with the ideas that never left their heads. It's a tragic outcome for brilliant ideas because their owners failed to see beyond their rigid ideals.

  • @davidke20(80)· 2h

    Couldn't agree more. For each YouTube short I heard starting with "do you know that", I'm trucking swipe. Some of my favorite content creator, had also totally changed to AI narrative, at first it looks fun. But then after once or twice, it keeps on repeating the same tune despite the song sounded a little not same but it's actually no different.

    I think your readers, including me, truly appreciate the real you here.

    One thing I deal with AI, especially when I'm writing in Chinese, is correction 🤣 i tend to make a lot of "typo mistake".