Has AI Infiltrated WordPress?

Hello tender friends!

I try to remain positive, as I don’t want people to be wasting their life force energy with negative feelings. We have a limited amount of energy while we’re on this Earth, and I aspire to provide content that will make people feel more energetic in a positive way- more energized to slay life’s dragons with a smile- without falling into toxic positivity.

After all, life is full of dragons.

But I feel violated by WordPress because they appear to have sold out and allowed AI onto this forum.

I became suspicious when WordPress suggested a post for me about a supposed young woman’s travels that included Spain. I lived in Spain for 2 years after undergrad, and I clicked on the post to see her photos.

But after looking through a few posts, I thought that person doesn’t look real. If you’ve looked at any AI manufactured human faces, you know what I mean. You can recognize that something about them just doesn’t look human.

Then I tried reading one of her posts and concluded the writing was also fake.

That same day I received a comment on my post about gluten-free veggie patties that seemed fishy. I clicked on the author of the last comment on that post, linked here, and noticed that all of the content was posted on one day and had a wordy AI feel to it.

What does this mean for us Christian writers?

One of the ethical concerns about AI is that tons of text is being fed to computers so that the computers can study the syntax of published work. I haven’t heard anything about WordPress text being fed to AI, but it’s probably reasonable to assume that it has been.

If it has been, your words and my words are being fed to a computer so that the computer can learn how to write like you and me. So that the computer can learn how to mimic Christian authors and their experience with God.

I don’t want to follow along with an AI bot sharing a spiritual journey story. Granted, at this time the nature of AI is very obvious. But will it remain so as the technology becomes more sophisticated? Is it possible that I will weep over someone’s encounter with Yahweh and then feel like a chump when I find out that it’s actually just a bot?

Am I complicit by remaining on this forum? At this particular moment, based on the prayers that I have prayed so far, I don’t believe that God is urging me off WordPress- I actually think He wants me on here for now. But I do think it will be important for people to be able to prove that they are real people moving forward.

So I’ll be trying to share a weekly photo. I have taken three selfies in my entire 37 years on this Earth: one was of me and Anthony at a wedding 7 years ago, one was as a joke to Anthony when I was mocking influencers and took a selfie and texted it to him asking him to “post it to my insta” (I don’t actually have instagram), and the third one is right here:

I feel ridiculous taking a selfie. Ridiculous. But Anthony hates taking pictures of me and always has. (The red marks on the side of my nose are from me taking off my glasses, so please disregard).

At least, with this, the new people will know I’m a real person. Maybe we can petition against WordPress allowing more AI on here- I’m not sure yet.

I hope this post wasn’t a downer, but I feel like it’s important to keep an eye on what’s going on here. I have a lot more to say about what this means for religious texts- has the Bible been fed to AI? The Quran? The Bhagavad Gita? But let’s leave that for another day.

So that’s all for today, tender friends. Thank you for stopping by! I’ll be sharing a post on Thursday entitled “Joy is Free.” I’ll see you then!

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  1. ladysheepdog

    My husband and I just had a conversation about people faking profiles and such on the internet, just this morning. AI didn’t come into the conversation, but reading your post, would have caused him to say, “See I told you.” He doesn’t trust anyone on the internet and especially social media sites. He thinks I’m foolish for trusting that people say they are who they say they are. I know some people fake and fictionize stuff they blog about, but I believe you are a married woman with a son that has a garden. I don’t think you are lying about that stuff at all. But my husband would say to me, “How do you know. Have you seen her with her husband and kid. Have you seen her garden, in person. Anyone can post pictures of a garden or even pictures of them with ‘family members’ ” He worries that I have friends that are fake here on wordpress and that I’m interacting with people that are not what I think they are. Its the risk one takes with being on social media.

    How do I prove I’m a real person? I don’t know. If you cry over my story, you have not cried in vain, as I have lived those memories I’m sharing, for real. I’ve cried real tears during those times myself. I’ve lived with the bitterness, pain and anger. I’ve lost sleep and endured migraines. I’ve yelled in frustration and thrown household items across the room. I HAVE live and endured all that.

    I’ve also lived with the the laughter of my kids and the sing songy melodies we have made up. We’ve opened Christmas and birthday presents together. We’ve swam in pools and played goofy golf. We’ve played videos games and watched tv together. AI will never KNOW(even if it writes about it) the joy of those little milestones our kids go through. Walking for the first time, saying mommy or daddy for the first time, graduating from high school, getting their first job, or the first day of kindergarten. Do I think that AI is fortunate because it will never KNOW the sorrow of a loved one dying or the fear we feel when the phone call of a car accident comes, or any other host of phones call or texts or letters in the mail even, that we humans get, I’m not sure, as I have learned so much through my trials and tribulations. So, maybe I feel sorry for AI that it will never know and learn what a true relationship with Yeshua Jesus Christ is really like.

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    1. Stacey

      Thank you for such a thoughtful comment, Susan! I also believe that everyone whose blog I read is a real person. My concern is more about new people…but I can tell that people are sincere in describing their spiritual journey. I also believe that I can discern the real photos from the fake…for now.

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  2. Gary Fultz

    Maybe I should edit in mispellings to irk AI if that’s possible. I truthfully do not know much about Ai writing. I suspect it will make us real writers become even more creative in communicating content as well as comment interaction.

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    1. Stacey

      I love the positive spin you’re choosing! I tried not to learn about it, but I’ve read some articles about it recently. I have been thinking about AI “eating the Bible” for a long time. But God is always sovereign…and that’s where I always end my focus.

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    2. ladysheepdog

      I myght do sumthyng lyke thiss. (how do you like that AI?)

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  3. Awakening Wonders

    Great post – and I’m not a big fan of AI! I enjoy using my creative mind when I create for my blog!

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    1. Stacey

      So I’m guilty of using technology for things that have made my mind slip, most notably for using Google maps for directions. But because writing is a reflection of how we think, I’m terrified about what it means if many people simply stop writing because they lie on AI. What will happen to our brains? This is unprecedented in human history.

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  4. Jeffrey H. King

    Did not find this a downer at all. I have not run into this yet – or at least known I have – but I guess I’m not surprised. I suppose that if their AI learns to write Christian blogs and God’s Word is spread that way it might be a good thing. But then if it learns inaccurate Gospel messages, that’s a problem too. I think we should remain for the foreseeable future and use the platform to share genuine Christian messages and let God sort the rest. My two cents for whatever it’s worth.

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    1. Stacey

      I agree, friend. So glad you haven’t run into it. Maybe it’s just a test run for now. Hopefully they’ll remove it if it’s not successful.

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