Colette Jonopulos
AI, the Alternate Reality
|
|
|
. . . that world you owned like a lamp you could not stop rubbing.
Gary Miranda describing Walt Whitman's mind
Imaginary worlds. Reality. AI.
My favorite non-fiction book is an absorbing errand, by Janna Malamud Smith. The
author has hit on so many truths, not only writing truths, but life truths. When she writes
that a sustaining practice is " . . . to rule over an imaginary world of our own," I have to
agree. We create our art from an internal world only we live with, then offer it to an
audience who may or may not accept our vision. But first and foremost that world is
birthed in our imagination.
AI has been around for ages. Its recent hype is a high-stakes sale's job. Data centers are
not necessary, instead they are violently destructive to our environment. Their purpose is
to surveil, to track our movements, our purchases and our privacy. We are moving into a
world we have not approved of because our leaders, our tech giants, are in lock-step with
the WEF.
Creatives, more than anyone, have a responsibility to reject AI writing, literature and
manipulation. I watched several videos of people asking different AI programs if God exists,
if there are aliens, if the moon landing was real. The answers were seductive. What
impressed me was how easily the content creators accepted these answers as truth.
They, with millions of others, have crossed the line into a new reality.
The push to use Google's new AI mode points to a non-critical thinking model that is
deeply disturbing. It is being hoisted on us with the false idea that our lives are better when
we allow our information to be codified and whitewashed, and increasingly inaccurate.
Instead of our searching and choosing, dissecting and having options, we are being
asked to trust an entity outside ourselves to guide our thinking, to choose for us.
The CEO of Barnes & Noble, James Daunt, said he is willing to sell AI generated books if
they don't infringe on existing books. Is he unaware that thousands of books have already
been pirated and downloaded in order to replicate the voice, style and content of original
works? If booksellers and publishers are willing to sell computer generated literature, it
is another reason to buy our books from small, local booksellers. And to keep independent
publishers alive by buying their books.
What we create comes from the deepest part of ourselves, that private well of ideas,
fears, loves and obsessions. Our privacy, our creativity is sacrosanct. No one has the right
to trespass. No one.
In peace for our planet.
Colette
June 1, 2026
Gary Miranda describing Walt Whitman's mind
Imaginary worlds. Reality. AI.
My favorite non-fiction book is an absorbing errand, by Janna Malamud Smith. The
author has hit on so many truths, not only writing truths, but life truths. When she writes
that a sustaining practice is " . . . to rule over an imaginary world of our own," I have to
agree. We create our art from an internal world only we live with, then offer it to an
audience who may or may not accept our vision. But first and foremost that world is
birthed in our imagination.
AI has been around for ages. Its recent hype is a high-stakes sale's job. Data centers are
not necessary, instead they are violently destructive to our environment. Their purpose is
to surveil, to track our movements, our purchases and our privacy. We are moving into a
world we have not approved of because our leaders, our tech giants, are in lock-step with
the WEF.
Creatives, more than anyone, have a responsibility to reject AI writing, literature and
manipulation. I watched several videos of people asking different AI programs if God exists,
if there are aliens, if the moon landing was real. The answers were seductive. What
impressed me was how easily the content creators accepted these answers as truth.
They, with millions of others, have crossed the line into a new reality.
The push to use Google's new AI mode points to a non-critical thinking model that is
deeply disturbing. It is being hoisted on us with the false idea that our lives are better when
we allow our information to be codified and whitewashed, and increasingly inaccurate.
Instead of our searching and choosing, dissecting and having options, we are being
asked to trust an entity outside ourselves to guide our thinking, to choose for us.
The CEO of Barnes & Noble, James Daunt, said he is willing to sell AI generated books if
they don't infringe on existing books. Is he unaware that thousands of books have already
been pirated and downloaded in order to replicate the voice, style and content of original
works? If booksellers and publishers are willing to sell computer generated literature, it
is another reason to buy our books from small, local booksellers. And to keep independent
publishers alive by buying their books.
What we create comes from the deepest part of ourselves, that private well of ideas,
fears, loves and obsessions. Our privacy, our creativity is sacrosanct. No one has the right
to trespass. No one.
In peace for our planet.
Colette
June 1, 2026
