AI can polish your thoughts. It cannot replace having them

I’m noticing more and more people I genuinely admire posting content that feels strangely hollow, technically correct, neatly structured, but missing any trace of the person behind it. Not AI-assisted. Not AI-refined. Simply handed over to a model with nothing human to anchor it. And the phrase I keep hearing, almost as a badge of efficiency, is: “Just run it through ChatGPT real quick.”

I'm sorry but if all your content sounds like AI, it means you skipped the thinking part.

Writing — real writing — is not about producing clean sentences. It’s about revealing how you see. It’s about the small pieces of your inner world that slip through when you put thought into something. Your taste. Your perspective. What you’ve learned, what you notice that others don’t.

AI can refine grammar and elevate structure. It can help articulate what you already know but struggle to phrase. I use it for that — English isn’t my first language, and I rely on AI to correct what my brain still sometimes does in Spanish. But the ideas are mine. The direction is mine. The voice is mine. AI is an editor, not the author.

What worries me is the growing trend of outsourcing not just writing, but thinking. When the process becomes “copy/paste/write nothing,” content loses its texture. It becomes perfectly generic. Interchangeable. Safe to the point of being forgettable.

And here’s the irony: human content, real human content, is becoming a luxury. A rare element in a feed dominated by polished sameness. You can immediately feel the difference. Human writing has nuance, imperfection, pulse. It shows the edges of a person’s mind. 

We don’t follow people because their sentences are flawless. We follow them because their ideas are alive.

So yes, use AI. Use it well. But don’t hand over the part that makes your voice yours. Don’t trade originality for convenience. Don’t let your perspective disappear in a sea of optimized paragraphs.

Your content doesn’t need to be perfect. It needs to have a mind behind it, your mind.

Oh and one more thing. I hate that this symbol — has suddenly become “AI evidence.” If you actually love reading, if you enjoy literature, you know it’s one of the most beautiful signs ever created. It belongs to writers. Writers. The weird part is that it’s now associated with AI instead of being recognized as a sign that someone knows how to write. I know I sound like a dinosaur, but back in my days people wrote because they read, because they thought, because they had something to say. That was my job. To write. To actually think and create, with your mind and soul and every weird part of it. Now that job is kind of replaced and honestly, I don’t mind. I believe anything that helps people communicate is good. I believe in the founding principles of the internet. But please… think.

If I read one more AI-scented caption on LinkedIn, I’m throwing my router off the balcony and moving to the mountains to grow pumpkins, write in my blog notes, play The Sims and go to the city occasionally to throw glitter at people as part of my contemporary-artist era. Which, honestly, are my elderly Flor plans anyway.