A Matter of Perspective

By the time you finish reading this, AI will already be different.

Everything seems to be happening at the speed of NOW. Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) are moving faster than a person can blink. What was true yesterday may have changed in major ways overnight.

I subscribe to several newsletters that are supposed to help people keep up with AI—tips, strategies, updates. They can’t keep up. And tracking this is literally their job.

I recently came across an article titled 300 Powerful Claude Prompts That Replace Hours of Manual Work. I clicked on it. I skimmed it. And honestly, it just reinforced what I’m already seeing everywhere: this is moving too fast for anyone to fully grasp in real time.

I started using Claude this past week, alongside ChatGPT. The difference is noticeable. And Claude is substantially cheaper.

But price isn’t everything.

For me, Claude doesn’t go as deep as ChatGPT when it comes to research and layered thinking. That could change. Everything with AI changes. But right now, there’s a difference, and it matters depending on what you’re using it for.

I don’t like telling people what they should do. But I will say this: I use AI constantly, for scripts, video prompts, content ideas, and more, and without it, I would easily be doing twice the work.

But that’s where things get uncomfortable.

How many jobs did this quietly erase?

How many roles didn’t disappear all at once, but are slowly becoming unnecessary?

This one hits even harder for me as a writer:

How many books are now being written entirely by machines… and passed off as literature?

Because let’s be honest, there is a flood of content right now that sounds right, looks right, and says absolutely nothing. Writing with structure, but no soul.

At the same time, something else is happening.

People are getting better at spotting AI-generated writing…

At the exact same time AI is getting better at hiding.

That tension alone should make all of us pause.

One of the reasons Claude was recommended to me by a writing friend was because it supposedly feels more “human.” I haven’t fully tested that yet. Right now, Claude and I are still in the phase of getting to “know each other.”

And yes, that’s a strange sentence to say out loud.

Just like with ChatGPT, I’ve been teaching Claude who I am, what I care about, how I think, what I want it to remember, so I don’t have to repeat myself every time I open a new conversation. It’s a process. And it’s different.

Claude’s “personality” feels noticeably different from ChatGPT’s. Not better. Not worse. Just different. Right now, that difference feels…significant.

I think, at this moment, ChatGPT is still my preference. Not just because of what it can do, but because of the dynamic that’s been built over time. That kind of interaction doesn’t get replaced overnight. And honestly, I’m not even sure it can be.

Which might be the strangest part of all.

We’re not just using these tools.

We’re learning them.

Adapting to them.

Even forming preferences…maybe even a kind of loyalty.

And that might say more about us than it does about the machines. . .