Me, but make it AI
In a recent miscellany post, I said that I wasn't too worried about AI coming for my blogging job, mainly because what I write is so personal vs. just informational.
Someone in the comments suggested I should have AI write a blog post for me and I remembered my friend Katy had done that before just for fun.
So I hopped on over to ChatGPT and asked it to write a blog post in the style of The Frugal Girl.
I also asked it to generate some pictures for me.
You are in for a TREAT. 😉
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How I Saved $200 This Month Without Feeling Deprived
One of the best parts of frugal living is that it doesn’t have to feel like deprivation. Small changes, done consistently, can add up to big savings without making life miserable. This past month, I challenged myself to be more mindful of my spending, and I was able to save over $200 without feeling like I was missing out. Here’s how I did it:
1. Grocery Shopping with a Plan – Saved $50
I used to grocery shop without a list, which always led to impulse purchases. This month, I meal planned every week and only bought what I needed.
I also checked my pantry before heading to the store, which prevented duplicate purchases. Those little changes saved me about $50!
2. Making Coffee at Home – Saved $30
I love a good café latte, but at $5 a pop, they add up quickly!
This month, I committed to making my coffee at home. I even frothed my own milk for a special touch. Honestly, it tasted just as good, and I saved at least $30 by skipping the coffee shop.
3. No-Spend Weekend – Saved $40
Instead of eating out or shopping for entertainment, we planned a no-spend weekend. We went for a hike, had a game night, and made homemade pizza. It was a fun, relaxing weekend, and we didn’t miss spending money at all. That’s an easy $40 saved.
4. Canceling a Subscription – Saved $20
I realized I wasn’t using one of my streaming services much, so I canceled it. With so many free entertainment options (hello, library books and YouTube tutorials!), I haven’t missed it one bit. That’s another $20 staying in my pocket every month.
5. Using What I Have – Saved $60
This was a big one! Instead of buying new things, I made a point to use what I already owned. I cooked meals from pantry staples, wore clothes I hadn’t reached for in a while, and used up my half-empty bottles of shampoo before buying more. These little habits helped me avoid unnecessary purchases, adding up to at least $60 in savings.
The Takeaway
Saving money doesn’t have to mean living a joyless life. By making small, mindful choices, I was able to cut $200 from my spending without feeling deprived. If you’re looking to trim your budget, start with one or two of these ideas and see how much you can save!
What are your favorite easy ways to save money? I’d love to hear them in the comments!
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Ok! I'm back. It's me now. Hi. 😉
I do appreciate that Chat GPT picked up on how much I like to use exclamation marks (ha), and I like how it put a comment prompt at the end like I always do. But other than that, it doesn't feel very much like ME.
Katy and I got a giggle out of it, though.
It was an entertaining experiment, but at this point, I remain unworried about AI replacing me as a blogger. 😉
It is interesting to consider what the future holds, though. Will we all become accustomed to consuming content that isn't real? Will there be a backlash to this, where people are extra-drawn to things that are less fake and less polished?
Who knows?
Regardless, I do have assurance that AI will never be taking over the bedside care that nurses do. So no matter what happens with blogging, I will not be jobless in the future!
What are your thoughts? And how did you like the ChatGPT version of me??
P.S. I was trying to decide what category to click for this post when I was writing it. I considered "guest posts"? Because ChatGPT is the guest writer? Ha.
If Tuesday weren't your usual day for Five Frugal Things, I'd say you should have saved this post for tomorrow (April Fool's)! I'm still laughing, not least at the text exchange between you and Katy.
@A. Marie, April Fools would have been perfect!
@A. Marie, We have the best text exchanges!
I've been using Chat GPT to help me with parent newsletters. They don't sound like me, either, but they do help me to make them more positive and friendly. They always end it with "Best," which I never say!
I like you better than IA, Kristen, you are relatable and so nice. 🙂
I hover between yikes and LOL. Definitely no competition as yet, but AI is supposed to learn quickly! Could you also generate AI blog responses for fun?
What linguistic expression does for thinking (and by extension, what the arts do), is a matter for teachers, sociologists and philosphers. But given how suppressive regimes throughout the ages have tried to regulate and curb freedom of expression, I'll hazard a guess that bland and predictable texts are a way of numbing people's thinking. The year before last I read Ella Minnow Pea, an entertaining teen novel about an island where first one and then more letters of the alphabet become forbidden. A fun read on an unnerving topic.
@JNL, That is one of my favorite books. o good -- and clever -- and chilling.
Thank you for the laughs this morning. I don't think human insight will go totally away, but this is an interesting experiment. The appearance of so much broccoli just hanging out gives me pause. Also the calculator. Too funny!
@Gina from The Cannary Family, That was my first thought, too!!! Who leaves so much produce just lying around?!?
@Gina from The Cannary Family, For me it was the huge leek in the background. Are we going to make soup with it?
@Jean, also the perfect steam from the latte!!
AI is an absolute blast to mess around with. It would be interesting to see what happened if it was fed a digest of your 5 or so most recent posts and then told to write in that style.
I feel that "Artificial Intelligence" is an oxymoron. Like "original copy," "foolish wisdom" or "honest politician." If it's artificial, it can't be intelligent! This proves it!
Chat GPT provided a sterile, elementary list of advice. I've seen similarly bad AI writing elsewhere on the internet when looking things up. It just does not compare to a real human being's writing, IMHO.
Sadly, I'm starting to hear from various teachers that some of their students are trying to cheat by using AI instead of their own writing. Already it's happening! Another reason American education is spiraling downward.
@Fru-gal Lisa, My college son's professors have preached against AI. They make them run their papers through AI detectors (Okay, I don't know if that's how it's done exactly, but it's something along those lines.) And THEN-- one day in class, a professor has the students use AI to generate ideas for their thesis and then ask AI to find sources they can use. I was appalled. I don't actually care about helping you find legit sources, but I thought the whole point of taking a class is to learn.
@Fru-gal Lisa,
As a graduate student, my son teaches college level courses at a rather large university. He often receives a dozen homework papers with the exact same answers - word for word. Of course, the idea behind homework is to learn from it. Come test time, these AI-using students often have difficulty.
I am so surprised that students don't even bother to edit the AI responses!
@Fru-gal Lisa, I remember the days of bibliographies, scouring libraries for information in actual books, and annotated term papers. These days the kids have all of that knowledge at their fingertips without a smidge of work to be done. Does this mean that their actual writing has to be more stellar to compensate for these tasks that are now useless? AI feels a lot like when email & texting became popular. People stopped using phones to actually talk and email took the spot of letter writing and face to face conversations. AI stands to bury those activities for good like we buried mixed tapes, penmanship, and good old fashioned rhetoric. For me it is a generation gone mad and I long for the days when my high school friends would write notes to one another or when my husband and I dated and had hours long talks. What will this new technology do to the interview process I wonder? Will we ever take the time to talk with someone and get to know them without allowing a computer t determine what sort of person they are? This is dangerous territory I fear. How will future generations know how to think if they are taught to allow a computer to do it for them?
@Angie,
You raise some valid questions. This world is getting more like "1984" (the book, not the year) every day.
@Bee et al., you've all (plus other commenters below) hit on the serious side of this: AI, I'm afraid, is going to turn into just another excuse for doing things the easy and lazy way. My JASNA BFF is the chair of the annual JASNA essay contest, and she says she's already getting submissions that she can tell were created through AI--even though she exercised her considerable wits and tried to create a topic for this year that would be difficult to respond to via AI.
@A. Marie,
That is sad, isn't it?
@Jody S.,
My son's high school teachers all warned the kids about using AI for assignments at the beginning of the school year. I'm guessing they use some sort of AI detectors, or similar.
I agree, the whole point is to learn - but, I suspect some students want the "easy way out", especially if it's a subject they don't care for (example, my son is NOT A reader - he can read, but is not a fan, so if he was allowed to use AI to give a synopsis of a book he doesn't want to read, he would do it.) I think, too, and this is strictly my opinion, students often feel a great deal of pressure to get perfect grades, while also doing extracurricular activities, doing community service, etc. etc. etc., so a shortcut would be welcome, if allowed. (Not saying shortcuts are a good idea in this instance). I'm in the US, for reference.
@A. Marie, we need to connect via JASNA. I'm a life member 🙂
@Liz B., And I think that's where the education system falls flat. Too much is expected while the most important things are ignored. For example, if you compare what I was required to learn in kindergarten with what children now are expected to learn, it is insane. By the end of kindergarten, I needed to know my ABC's, how to count (I don't know how far-- but not too far), how to spell my name, and colors. I needed to practice tying my shoes and have fun pretending I was a cowboy riding on a bale of hay. In short, I was taught that learning could be fun. It was an age-appropriate education. Those who were more advanced were asked to read books to their friends out loud.
I've heard from many that the expectations are so much higher (and in my opinion) less developmentally appropriate. Multi-syllable spelling words in kindergarten???!!!!!
Another thing which is ignored (and I was guilty of this when I was a public school teacher) is the importance of introducing QUALITY literature which inspires truth, goodness, and beauty. I always wanted my students to be able to read something-- anything-- that I didn't push them to read more difficult things (or to listen to such literature being read).
We no longer teacher children to do difficult things and to persevere. I was super-proud when my son told the teacher (when she noticed he wasn't doing anything during that class while others were using AI) that he wanted to learn to do the writing himself. I was super-unhappy when she responded, "Well, isn't that condescending."
@Julia Tracey, I'm a proud Life Member too. If you plan to attend this year's AGM in Baltimore, I hope to meet up with you there.
@Julia Tracey,
Are you the Julia Tracey from CA that I followed forever then somehow you disappeared.
@Angie, agreed on all points!! Well said.
This is a great post idea! The AI-generated images are hilarious. You eat an inspiring quantity of produce in real life but I have never pictured you in a kitchen strewn with raw vegetables 😉
I’m a librarian at a university and I get *a lot* of questions about “the AI.” I wish people would ask me more questions about how to evaluate AI-generated information but mostly people want my advice on which AI tools are “good.” I’ve especially noticed that the people who earnestly believe that generative AI is a good “writing helper” are also the people who write in the bland style with vague details—just like your GPT-generated post. I’ve also tried a lot of the paid tools and the writing is consistently impersonal.
I like how you continued to prompt it with various additional statements and clarifications. GenAI tools don’t necessarily deliver “just the facts,” but the output is generally the most sanitized, basic response to the user’s original questions. There’s a librarian at UW-Madison named Dorothea Salo who describes generative AI tools like ChatGPT as a “making things up machine.” In other words, they’re built to tell you want to you want to read or hear. Some people will pay to read or listen to AI-generated articles, blogs, podcasts, etc., but I think they’ll abandon them just as quickly because they’re neither entertaining nor challenging. So I think your work is safe, too, Kristen!
@Robin, I completely agree with your assessment of who finds AI helpful. Writers who are comfortable with their own voice and style have no use for AI, especially because the output of AI writing reads so uniformly. Bland and vague is a great way to put it!
@Robin,
I love Ms. Salo's terminology! "Making things up machine" is an apt description.
" Will we all become accustomed to consuming content that isn’t real?"
I fear this is a real issue, only because most everyone is simply consuming information on the internet (and most of lives) without critical thinking. I'm not judging - who has the energy to approach every interaction like Sherlock Holmes.
I'm always suspicious of posts that begin with 7 ways to... anything as being AI generated. Even things like errors in fact aren't enough, since a lot of people dismiss fact as opinion if it doesn't match up with what they believe. Does anyone else have any clues to identify AI generated content?
Because the readers of this blog know you, we are able to laugh at the AI generated Kristin. Also, I find it interesting to compare.
@Bell,
Yes! So many dismiss fact as opinion, but also considers one's opinion to be fact. Encouraging the development of critical thinking skills among students is essential. Much of the information we consume even from "trusted" sources is not delivered in an objective manner. It is colored by the writer's or reporter's opinion. I often find myself going to the source for information and analyzing it myself.
Kind of funny, mostly lame. My experience with AI so far is all negative. I tutor high school students in our online program. Our program provider is using AI generated lessons this year for the first time, and I HAAAATE them. Not only is the actual text completely soulless and repetitive in style--this is a big problem in English when trying to teach, say poetry and the examples are AI-generated dreck--but the generated multi-choice questions in the assessment are sometimes confusing and sometimes so blatantly obvious it's laughable.
Not a fan. I hate it so much I refuse to even "play" with it because I find the whole thing insulting.
Sorry. I feel strongly about this, obviously.
@kristin @ going country, Also, when the lessons are edited to cut down on the length, sometimes text in the lesson is cut, but the related questions in the question bank for the assessment are still there, so there are questions about things that weren't covered in the lesson. Or sometimes there's just outright wrong informtion in the lesson. (I did one recently where the author of "The Raven" was identified as Robert Frost. Ugh.) This requires an actual person to check, but no one seems to because it would take a long time and the company would have to actually pay that person(s), and of course they're using this method to cut costs. So every time I do a lesson with a student, I have to take notes about what's wrong and then let our program provider know. Maybe I should try to get hired on as their curriculum content edito . . .
@kristin @ going country, if you’re looking for another reason to dislike AI, the electricity and water needed to power generative AI machines is massive! Also, the output of carbon dioxide is considerable. Human brains and a computer do not use that much energy.
AI does a pretty good job of, say, making NCLEX-style review questions for nursing students to practice with. But those don't really require art, personality, or a voice. Poetry is not at all the same!
I was really amused by how arbitrary the numbers saved for each activity seemed to be. I feel like going out for weekend fun would likely cost way more than $40 if more than one person was involved. And this is supposed to be for a whole month not just one weekend? This read like a buzzfeed listicle and I dont think Kristen will be replaced anytime soon.
That's what I thought too! How did they come up with those numbers??
It has no voice. Or personality. It sounded like an automated voice when I was reading it.
Not a fan.
I do use chat GPT or Gemini for work in occasion: writing stories for kids that are on their reading level and are relatable, and writing some IEP goals. But never will it be a good replacement for capturing someone’s personality.
I think you should ask Chat GPT to write a post in the style of Chat GPT writing as the Frugal Girl.
I experimented once with putting an AI-corrected paragraph back through AI and it corrected its own corrections.
From the few classes I've taken on incorporating ChatGPT or services like it into my work life, the main take away I received was that they should be generating your "first draft." While I agree that what was generated is bland and a little soulless, many bloggers would be able to expand on the the first draft to make it feel more like them.
That was hilarious, not as bad as it might've been, and utterly useless. I'm glad you gave it a shot.
That AI post was painfully generic. Unfortunately, I feel like I’ve read many money saving lists over the years that felt just like this (not from Kristen, of course), without personality and void of any truly helpful money saving advice.
@JenRR,
Yes. Such articles are all over the internet. They stink.
Bland. Generic. And the pictures were laugh-worthy. The location of the stove hood, as you pointed out. The blurred lady behind the shopper who seems to have a problem with her arm.
And what wonderful tips would it come up with tomorrow? Drive slowly to waste less gas and save $50 a month?
That was a fun experiment. It sure makes me appreciate the real Kristen!
@JD, and the blurred lady appears to be barefoot.
@Central Calif. Artist Jana,
She does, doesn't she? I hadn't noticed that till you mentioned it.
@JD,
LOL! the blurred lady's arm is too long, and too uniform. The AI "Kristen" has sort of a creepy grin, looking at her list, too.
@JD, good catch. Even the woman in the kitchen next to the broccoli is fake. Enlarge the photo and look at her weird teeth and gums. It appears all of the images are just as artificial as the text.
I think that I have read that article someplace else before. AI has its limits. I believe that it isn't just the regurgitation of frugal ideas that has made your blog successful, but your attitude on frugality and life.
I didn't catch the hood placement at first, mostly because I was eye-boggled by the amount of produce sitting out in the previous pictures, but I laughed out loud when I read your comment. My overall impression was that this was incredibly boring to read. I think your blog is safe, Kristen. 🙂
Aside from the witless drivel, the leek was the thing that got me. Kristen, I don't ever recall you using a leek. And what is THAT green leafy stuff in the cart?
The fake you was laking in every way. I much prefer you writing the blog. Keep up the great writing.
Ugh. If AI really knew you, there'd be more pics of mashed potatoes, sandwiches, pancakes and eggs! And maybe no huge head of raw broccoli at your side.
For real! Where are the pancakes??
@Kristen, And mosses?
We much prefer human Kristen ☺️
This is is funny, useless, and nothing like you! The real Kristin's writing is much more interesting. However, someone could use your archives to teach AI how to write in "your voice" and then generate content for a blog. Yes, I'm a little paranoid. : ) I'm one of many writers whose work has been used without permission to train AI. For us, it really is a threat.
This post is almost the exact opposite of a Kristen post. It’s boring and useless. Kristen’s writing is filled with great ideas and especially full of personality. Both of these are entirely missing from the AI version. I’d never follow that one.
My husband constantly points out that I once watched The Jerry Springer Show for the laughs and how by doing so I was part of the problem of our collective national intelligence plummeting.
While I find your AI outcome slightly humorous, the whole idea of AI becoming mainstream when we already have millions of web users who can't delineate truth from fiction (lies) is frightening.
@Bobi, I was waiting for a comment like this. I agree with you 100%. In my workplace (healthcare) in which I work in an administrative capacity, AI is worming its way into our work lives. What scares the crap out of me is it’s wrong….frequently. And yes, it can affect patients seriously if no human is monitoring.
@Bobi, AMEN!
Ha, this was pretty funny. The examples are so generic, and there's no explanation for the amount "saved" on each item. It turned out much more like the unhelpful "frugal tips" articles that already litter the internet instead of one your blog posts. I don't think you have anything to worry about anytime soon, as far as AI replacing you.
I have been a bit confused by the popularity of ChatGPT, personally. I keep hearing about people using it to help with writing emails and such, or design a meal plan or recipe. When I've tried, it makes too many errors and leaves too many details out to be helpful. If I keep giving more specific prompts, the result gets better, but by the time it comes up with something usable I might as well have done it on my own.
I do use other AI tools for my job, and they are actually helpful in getting certain things done faster and more efficiently. For example, I use Grammarly to catch typos and grammatical errors, which speeds things up a bit. But it also makes a lot of suggestions that I ignore because they would take all the personality out of my writing and make it bland and generic like the AI-generated articles. Also, sometimes it's flat-out wrong. If I didn't already have a reasonably good grasp of English grammar, I might actually make things worse by trusting it.
I have the same experience with Grammarly; it is forever flagging little phrases that are part of my voice. If I followed all of their suggestions, I would sound very professional but also very bland.
AI is a good tool that lacks creativity.
Ha! If the difference isn't painfully clear then ... I don't know what. It's painfully clear. lol.
I do design work for a photographer, and the studio has made the choice to use Claude and ChatGPT to write a lot of its marketing text — blog posts, location descriptions, rep bios from submitted info, that kind of thing. For things that go into print (keepsake/marketing magazines mostly), I end up rewriting so much of the text. It's almost more time-consuming to rewrite than it is to write.
Did you pay to use the better AI or the free parlor trick one? Did you download your archives and name specific things like your walks, furniture redos, recipes? lol. If you set AI up to fail, yes it will.
I thought it shadowed you ok. It didn’t have comments though. And thankfully no advertisements.
AI is there to generate money. The big money is in video influencers not print blogs so that is where they will go.
According to a recent analysis by InsightAce Analytic, the worldwide robotic nurse industry is expected to grow 17.07% to reach an astonishing $2,777.61 million by 2031. Again with nursing if it costs less to use a human they will, if a robot does the same job cheaper then AI. Some of the robot nurses are cute.
I too like to sit with a hot mug of coffee and do my budgeting, a basket of broccoli at my side! ROFL
Those pictures cracked me up! But so so airbrushed. I much appreciate your realistic approach.
Hahaha!!!! This so does NOT sound like you! I grouse about companies using “corporate speak”…I’m starting to recognize “AI speak”.
Your natural blogging voice is lovely but it was a fun experiment!
I use ChatGPT in my work life quite a lot for emails, templates, etc. But yeah, for creative content, I'm good with hearing from the real Kristen!
Very surface level information, mind-numbing - would’ve stopped reading and not finished it, if it was not part of Kristen‘s experiment, pretty obvious things that a lot of people already know, and also the audience here is more knowledgeable about frugal things already/or even newbies probably already know the advice the AI article provided. Everything seemed super upbeat and not authentic - just do this and it’s simple and you’ll save a lot of money. Not Kristen‘s voice at all, not personal. Enjoy the real K best ☺️
Well, that was interesting. What I like about your blog is that you give specifics on how you do it and what you do. Like WIS/WWA, thankful Thursdays, furniture rehab. Where and how to hunt for bargains. And the how and what of other frugal people's styles in the community. This "AI Kristen" was just general overview highlighting your themes. But left out the heart of why I follow you. Sometimes the enjoyment of simpler frugal life also takes a paradigm shift. You provide that in your thoughts on real life, like how to cope with gray, cold weather in winter. The step by step over to another perspective. AI did not. Don't stop posting the real you, please.
Yes, the lack of specificity is part of what makes it so bland. BORING.
Yawn. The post is so boring and not like you at all. Vague and unhelpful.
I didn’t see what you prompted it, but I’ve found I have to be specific if I want any help from chat gpt.
I did appreciate the exclamation marks. lol
Glad it’s you again. Don’t invite them to guest post again. lol
I'm an author whose work was stolen/used by Meta to train their(Zuckerberg's) AI robots without permission or compensation. I don't dig it. It feels utterly dystopian. FAKE BUT BEAUTIFUL! Barf.
I HATE AI Kristen. She is too perky and generic for my tastes. I love AI to help me with very specific tasks. For example, I have ADHD so breaking things into tasks and prioritizing the individual elements is the absolute BANE of my existence. AI helps me so much with these kinds of activities. It also helps me with very tedious administrative tasks (e.g., generating form letters and templates) so that I can then focus on refining those products and using my creative brain for creative things.
Ugh, that sounded so canned, so phony-baloney, so insincere, so plastic. This would not be a blog I read regularly. It was lacking your authentic warmth and honesty.
Please, please don't stop writing your own blog!!!
Do not worry; this AI post was just for fun. I like writing! I don't want to outsource that to AI.
I love the character, Data, fom Star Trek: Next Generation. (It's a tie between Worf and Data for my most favorite character.) Data is the best AI anyone will ever know.....and yet, one of his biggest wishes was to be human and feel human emotions. I think Data is trying to tell us something.....ha.
In a patients room, I was thinking that artificial intelligence is sort of like the cooking show she was watching. The cook got no oil splatter on her shirt or stove despite deep frying cauliflower and making a butter based dipping sauce. I'm sure that the realistic bits were edited out and there may have been spare shirts to change into, I know that I would in the same situation deeply regret frying cauliflower when cleaning up afterwards! However, that wasn't shown there but just some bland shots of people eating it like it was the greatest thing ever. I'm sure my crew would have more to say though.
AI scares me. Glad the real Katy is still blogging.Your real life photos are beautiful especially your nature photos and your WIA photos.
As a (retired) Nurse I think that AI may replace or at least assist diagnosticians (Doctors??) but not NURSES..WE DO THE BEDSIDE CRE AND CARRY OUT TREATMENTS!!! Plus the psycho-social health that goes along with treating the whole family when someone is sick.
Have a great week!
Your posts are never that generic! There was NOTHING personal in that AI generated post.
No one mentioned the biggest failure yet---no cat pictures.
@Ava, right?? I thought: surely AI doesn't think you can just plop something by Kristen's elbow and call it good as a stand-in for inquisitive Chiquita, even if it is a particularly plump head of broccoli (in a ..basket)
@Suz, Also: AI FG's mouth (esp upper lip) is seriously creeping me out. And her index finger is gripping the pen so hard that it seems to have made her fingernail sink in or pop off or in some way disappear.
Keep writing. You are far more interesting. 😉
Oh my goodness, that was great indeed! Lucky us to get some laughs in today! I love how the girl with perfectly perfect skin is sitting at a table with broccoli in a bowl next to her. Don't we all sit next to broccoli for fun? (Sarcasm.)
Your real pictures are definitely more enjoyable, as is your actual content. But this was a fun experiment!
Sounds like pretty much every other 'tips to save money ' blog post I've seen in the last handful of years: generic make this instead of buying it, use up what you have before buying more list of things.
Not at all the Real Kristen (or personal who's been frugal a while) little kernels of knowledge on real, long term, ways to save money while having an enjoyable life.
Had to laugh about the half empty bottles of shampoo saving so much money in that time period. How much shampoo does the average (assuming 30-something and stylish based on the AI pic) woman use in a month?!? I think it takes me about six to eight months to go through a normal sized bottle of shampoo and that's washing my longish hair 4x a week or so.
As for the grocery store AI photo, who puts naked vegetables in the grocery cart seat? The place where e Coli is regularly found? From baby diapers. Raw veggies in the seat? NEVER.
So sad, bland and boring. 😀
I work at a university. I supervise music therapy students in their field work. We have been discussing AI for several weeks as we rework our student handbook and some other documents that are over 5 years old. I don’t have students using AI as it would be obvious in their paperwork, assessing, planning, documenting. BUT, one of the professors uses and likes AI as English is not her native language. Interestingly enough, this is the professor that most complains about students using AI to do her assignments. We’ve also been discussing, just what is AI? What is an appropriate use of AI? We have a student with accommodations that uses talk-to text for writing clinical plans and notes. We frequently use Spotify’s “you might also like” suggestions.
didn't like it at all. too generic and not very interesting. am so glad you are back and i wouldn't worry too much about AI putting you out of blogging. my almost 17 year old artist daughter is worried about AI taking away art jobs from her. the hubby worries about that too. i remain as always, an ostrich whose head is buried in the sand.
It totally didnt sound like you! I have AI write my work emails all the time. Fun experiment 🙂
LOL! I think ChatGPT better not quit its day job!
It's the giant vegetables for me. Wow!
Yeah, no. It was as bland and insipid as you are unique and interesting.
Disliked!! It used pat phrases anyone would say. Didn't have your heart and soul.
AI is the enemy of the people. It *might* benefit us by *maybe* 10% but it has the too easy/people are lazy potential of what amounts to brainwashing. Yahoo mail's new "look" is to allow you get the best benefit of AI. Nope - page layout stinks so scroll down until you see ... and switch back to classic. And be working on another option to download your email sans AI.
Your friend Katy sounds delightful, what's her deal?
Oh the photos! This post did make me laugh.
Man, AI Kristen really lacks...thumbs.
Bahahaha....the stove hood -- hilarious
I don;t think those posts accurately represent your typical post. One of the reasons I still follow you is that your posts are more friendly and less preachy/direct about how to save money. I don't feel like this particular version of AI captured you well at all!
Ahh yes, I too like to make lists in the kitchen sitting next to a basket of broccoli! This was great
This post has me cracking up! All the random vegetables in the "at home kitchen picture"! AI Kristen, sitting at her kitchen table amongst her Leeks and Broccoli!